Work of the Week 13: A Miner by George Chapman
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,...
Work of the Week 12: Whore of Essex – I Love Thee by Grayson Perry
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...
Work of the Week 11: Beslyn’s Pond by John Aldridge
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...
Work of the Week 10: A Splash in the Pant by Richard Bawden
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...