Work of the Week 7: Green Snapper Fish by Olga Marshall
Watercolour There is a niche in the pantheon of artists for those who dedicated their skills to the meticulous recording of the world on paper. The marine life watercolours of Olga Marshall (1921 – 2020) were part of this tradition, which modern day photographic...
Work of the Week 6: Hoy’s Cart by Paul Beck
Linocut Travelling just beyond Sewards End, now a suburb of Saffron Walden, towards Radwinter, a sign at the edge of a track signifies Hoy’s Farm. Hoy’s was the adjacent farm to Redgates, which Paul Beck and his partner Bryan Cave carefully renovated when they moved...
Work of the Week 5: Figure Studies by Duffy Ayers
Pen and ink on paper This drawing by Duffy Ayers (1919-2019) is rare because her reputation and work is mostly based on oil paintings of figures and interiors. It was presented to the Fry Art Gallery by Michael Rothenstein, her first husband. Ayers (as Duffy called...
Work of the Week 4: Self Portrait, Kinlochbervie by John Bellany
Watercolour, 1985 “It’s an ill wind that blows no good” runs the old idiom, and it was the wind of illness that blew John Bellany (1942-2013), a redoubtable Scot, to Saffron Walden in 1990. Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1968 Bellany had by 1986...