mixed media, 1975 Made in advance of a 1976 BBC television production of Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman, David Myerscough-Jones’s drawing manages not only to be a practical design but to evoke the entire musical world of that haunted and haunting...
etching, from Femmes/Hombres (The Verlaine Suite) 1972 Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), wrote a trilogy of erotic poetry between 1887 and 1891, entitled Les Amies, Femmes and Hombres. The latter two were republished in 1972 as Femmes/Hombres in an edition of 100, with 15...
Sheila Robinson has created a dynamic and surprising image here – it is a picture within a picture. Here she shows a small selection of a room and a view which, presumably, she must have known well. The aspect is at once ordinary and extraordinary. The solid,...
Eric Ravilious’ original design for A Child’s Handkerchief was included in an exhibition by the Cotton Board in 1941. Established in 1940, the Cotton Board’s remit was to ‘promote the welfare of the industry by internal reorganisation, by the development of...
lithographic poster for the Empire Marketing Board, c. 1931 This exemplifies Edward Bawden’s brilliance as a designer; the same linocut profile of the bullock, reminiscent of those circling Grecian pots from antiquity, is repeated with suave economy and startling...
1942, watercolour When one thinks of Ironbridge, the pioneering structure spanning the Severn in Shropshire comes to mind. This was a favourite subject of artists, including some from Great Bardfield. In 1958, Edward Bawden recalled: ‘I was at Ironbridge for about six...
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