ABSTRACT
Laurence Arthur Turner was an architectural sculptor, carver, modeller and architect. He studied at Kennington School of Art. He exhibited a ‘Plaster frieze’ at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society’s Second Exhibition in 1889. It is perhaps in the small room that the craft of the plasterer is really most felt, for the work becomes more subtle and delicate, and makes a larger demand upon the experience and thoughtfulness of the modeller than that of the more spacious and lofty apartment. It is in the small room that the quality of plaster-work becomes so evident. The treatment of the ceiling depends on the design of the room. If it be severely classic it would be incongruous to put much play or modelling into the surface of the plain mouldings or ground. Almost all decorative plasterwork is “cast” in plaster of paris.
