Work of the Month: Young Chickens by Walter Hoyle

Work of the Month: Young Chickens by Walter Hoyle

Young Chickens, Gouache, pen and ink, 1958. ‘If I were asked which were the best years,’ wrote Walter Hoyle (1922 – 2000) ‘I would not hesitate to answer those spent in and around Great Bardfield and Great Saling’. During that happy time, between 1952 and...
Work of the Month: Ives Farm by Edward Bawden

Work of the Month: Ives Farm by Edward Bawden

Edward Bawden CBE, RA, RDI (1903 – 1989) Ives Farm, Great Bardfield 1956, Linocut Edward and Charlotte Bawden moved to Brick House in Great Bardfield in 1932 sharing the house with Eric and Tirzah Ravilious. Ives Farm backed onto the garden at Brick House. This...
New season opens

New season opens

Ransomes RHA Plough This horse drawn plough, manufactured by Ransomes of  Ipswich, the biggest agricultural equipment manufacturer in Britain, is on show in the exhibition in the main gallery ‘Bardfield and Beyond: A Working Landscape’. Ploughs and other...