Oak Cottage, Oil on Canvas Cyril (known as Charles) Mahoney (1903 – 1968) studied at the Royal College of Art with Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious. The three artists won the commission to paint the murals at Morley College in Southwark between 1928 and 1930....
My Mother’s House, Lithograph, 1986. Sheila Robinson was a pupil of Edward Bawden at the Royal College of Art. Encouraged by him, she moved to Great Bardfield in 1953, and immersed herself in the creative life there while raising two small children, Ben and...
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...
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...
Painting and collage Anne Rothenstein is the daughter of Michael and Duffy Rothenstein and was brought up in Great Bardfield with her brother Julian. The exhibition Great Bardfield and Beyond: A Working Landscape includes 4 of Anne’s works, including one...
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...
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