Work of the Week 18: Apple Tree, Dunmow Allotments by Tom Deakins
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...
Work of the Week 17: Sun Maze by Michael Ayrton
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,...
Work of the Week 16: Great Bardfield by John Aldridge
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...
Work of the Week 15: Pigeon and Clocktower by Edward Bawden
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...