Page 44 - Studio International - November 1966

Elizabeth Allen
Home Sweet Home
Patchwork picture
Courtesy Crane Kalman
Gallery
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Elizabeth Allen
The Fish that Swallowed Jonah
Patchwork picture
Courtesy Crane Kalman
Gallery

Elizabeth Allen (`Queen)

It is still less than a year since a group of us brought took place in February of this year.
the patchwork or appliqué pictures of Elizabeth Allen To call Elizabeth Allen a naif or primitive is mislead-
to London for the first time. She was, in fact, 'discovered' ing, because, although she is totally untrained and
in October 1965 at the age of 82 by Trevor Bell and uneducated as an artist, her pictures are extremely
Kit Twyford. Then, last December, with the active sophisticated, both in their marvellous abstract
assistance of Justin Knowles and the strong support organization and in their extraordinary treatment of
of Norbert Lynton and Michael Kidner, her first exhibi- their subjects. Alfred Wallis, the last major pheno-
tion was arranged at the Crane Kalman Gallery. This menon of this kind, was a case where inexplicable

James Lloyd James Lloyd has been celebrated by Monitor, by
the Sunday colour supplements, by Ken Russell's
film on the Douanier Rousseau in which Lloyd
James Lloyd played the title role and by exhibitions at the Portal
Hen on a Fence 1966 Gallery which have proved so successful that Lloyd
Gouache
18 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. can now paint full time. This is a task which he
Courtesy Portal Gallery pursues with an obsessive persistence and

Far right
James Lloyd
Sheep Stirring 1966
Gouache
Courtesy Portal Gallery
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