Watercolour It is always difficult for sons to follow fathers in any profession. Comparisons can be unfavourable, compliments faint hearted, relative failure identified, and success more grudgingly recognised. We must face the fact that Richard Bawden, son of Edward,...
Watercolour There is a niche in the pantheon of artists for those who dedicated their skills to the meticulous recording of the world on paper. The marine life watercolours of Olga Marshall (1921 – 2020) were part of this tradition, which modern day photographic...
Linocut Travelling just beyond Sewards End, now a suburb of Saffron Walden, towards Radwinter, a sign at the edge of a track signifies Hoy’s Farm. Hoy’s was the adjacent farm to Redgates, which Paul Beck and his partner Bryan Cave carefully renovated when they moved...
Pen and ink on paper This drawing by Duffy Ayers (1919-2019) is rare because her reputation and work is mostly based on oil paintings of figures and interiors. It was presented to the Fry Art Gallery by Michael Rothenstein, her first husband. Ayers (as Duffy called...
Watercolour, 1985 “It’s an ill wind that blows no good” runs the old idiom, and it was the wind of illness that blew John Bellany (1942-2013), a redoubtable Scot, to Saffron Walden in 1990. Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1968 Bellany had by 1986...
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