Work of the Week 50: At A Hollywood Screening by Olga Lehmann
guache, 1992 Born in Chile of a French father and a Scots mother, Lehmann was initially educated by an English governess and then sent to an American college in Santiago, later winning a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Lehmann’s paintings and...
Work of the Week 49: Brook Street, Great Bardfield by Sheila Robinson
Woodcut, 1966 Sheila Robinson lived in Cage Cottage in Great Bardfield from 1957 until it was destroyed by fire in 1967. She was a skilled printmaker, and often worked in the unusual medium of cardboard cut prints. She produced many works to commission for bodies such...
Work of the Week 48: Red Tabby by Sheila Robinson
cardboard cut, 1971 Sheila Robinson developed her own highly accomplished technique for printmaking using a cardboard cut out, often in conjunction with lino print, produced without the aid of a press, her cottage being too small to accommodate one. Card shapes were...
Work of the Week 47: Christmas Greetings by Walter Hoyle
etching Hoyle’s image is a quirky and ebullient depiction of Santa Claus driving his present-laden sleigh through the night sky on Christmas Eve. In Clement Clarke Moore’s 1823 poem “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” (also known as “Twas the Night Before Christmas”),...