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...
Oil on canvas, 1950s George Chapman (1908 – 1993) left London in 1951 and moved to Great Bardfield and took an active part in the thriving artistic community that included Edward and Charlotte Bawden, Michael and Duffy Rothenstein, John Aldridge, Bernard Cheese,...
Glazed ceramic, 1986 It was a force majeure that brought Grayson Perry (b. 1960) from Chelmsford to Great Bardfield when he was 14 years old and his mother and newly acquired stepfather set up house there. It was not to be a happy period, and at the end of which he...
Beslyn’s Pond is an easy walk north from Great Bardfield and became a favourite, inspirational location for Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden and John Aldridge (1905 – 1983). Home for Aldridge was The Place in Great Bardfield and he lived there from 1933 until his death...
Linocut, 1992, from a series of 85 A Splash in the Pant by Richard Bawden (b. 1936) portrays Edward and Charlotte Bawden and Eric and Tirzah Ravilious taking a dip on a summer’s day in the river near Great Bardfield and the incident passed into the folklore of both...
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