Watercolour, 1952 Walter Hoyle (1922 – 2000) visited Sicily in August 1951 in the company of fellow artist, Edward Bawden. Both found the heat and dust almost unbearable and eventually took refuge up in the mountains at Enna. On their return to England, Hoyle was...
Oil, 1993 This small (15cm x 20cm) painting perfectly captures the intensity of feeling for a particular place that Deakins (b.1957) manages to convey in his work – not just how something looks, but also how he, as an artist, has experienced it; the smell of...
bronze, 1970 Sun Maze (1970) is a late double-sided bronze by Michael Ayrton. The myth of Daedalus, Icarus and the labyrinth at Knossos is familiarly told by Ovid in his narrative poem of 8AD and became an obsession of the artist over many years. On one side, Icarus,...
Lithograph, 1951 John Aldridge’s lithograph ‘Great Bardfield’ was part of a series of prints published to celebrate the Festival of Britain by the Artists’ International Association, or AIA, of which Aldridge was a member. The picture is very much in the spirit of...
Wallpaper sheet Edward Bawden (1903 – 1989) and John Aldridge (1905 – 1983) collaborated in designing wallpapers in the 1920s. The artists printed them from lino blocks in a small studio at Bawden’s home, but soon the work was entrusted to John Perry & Co (later...
Watercolour, 1941 The painter, writer and poet, Thomas Hennell recorded country life in Britain during the 1930’s and 1940’s and several were included in ‘Recording Britain’ (published 1946-49). Hennell arrived in Great Bardfield in 1931 while...
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