Work of the Month: Young Chickens by Walter Hoyle

Work of the Month: Young Chickens by Walter Hoyle

Work of the month

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

Work of the month

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...
Work of the month: Iron Bridge at Ewenbridge

Work of the month: Iron Bridge at Ewenbridge

Work of the month

Watercolour on paper, 1942 One of the highlights of the forthcoming exhibition ‘Great Bardfield and beyond: a working landscape’ is Eric Ravilious’s 1942 watercolour of the iron footbridge over the river Pant at Ewenbridge, near Shalford. The...
Work of the month: Fishermen by Keith Vaughan

Work of the month: Fishermen by Keith Vaughan

Work of the month

Screen-printed cotton crepe, 1956 The Fry Gallery is pleased to have acquired this example of one of the furnishing fabrics that Keith Vaughan designed for Edinburgh Weavers between 1956 and 1958. Vaughan was one of several contemporary artists who were commissioned...