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...
Work of the Week 3: A Card at Christmas by Edward Bawden
Watercolour We have chosen this deliberately because the sending of greetings at Christmas time, which gathered momentum in the 1840s under Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s encouragement, were not necessarily religious in their purpose but also to exchange greetings...
Work of the Week 2: The Thatcher by Kate Chapman
Oil on board, 1953 Kate Chapman (née Ablett) (1926 – 2002), met her husband, the artist George Chapman (1908 -1993), whilst she was a student at the Norwich School of Art in 1946. The following year they were married and her work as an artist took second place...