Rocking Horse, Seashore

Rocking Horse, Seashore

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Artist: Olive Cook Lived: 1912 – 2002 Medium: Oil Date: Unknown Catalogue number: 1011 Image Height/Width: 407 x 610 mm Cook described herself as a “painter by inclination”, and indeed her art training was derived from an intimate association with...
Welsh Coast

Welsh Coast

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Artist: John Bolam Lived: 1922 – 2009 Medium: Watercolour Date: 1942 Catalogue number: 2815 Image Height/Width: 439 x 610 mm John Bolam is seen by many as following in the path of the neo-Romantics, most notably Piper and Sutherland, but his imagery subsequently...
Threshing in the Snow

Threshing in the Snow

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At the outbreak of war in 1939 Hennell wrote to the War Artists Advisory Commission offering his services as an artist. He worked for the Pilgrim Trust in 1940 and the Ministry of Information in 1941. Hennell was named as an official war artist in 1943 and sent to...
Cat on Chair

Cat on Chair

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Artist: Sheila Robinson Lived: 1925 – 1988 Medium: Cardboard Cut Catalogue number: 423 Image Height/Width: 594 x 415 mm Born in Nottingham, Sheila Robinson studied at the local Notingham Art School and then at the Royal College of Art from 1946-1950 where she...
Bamboo Hall

Bamboo Hall

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Artist: Richard Bawden NEAC Lived: b.1936 Medium: Watercolour Catalogue number: 1780 Image Height/Width: 463 x 658 mm Richard Bawden works in various media including watercolour, etching, linocut and also glass engraving. He has produced illustrations for many books,...
My Mother’s House

My Mother’s House

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Artist: Chloe Cheese Lived: b. 1952 Medium: Pencil and watercolour Catalogue number: 1302 Image Height/Width: 594 x 415 Daughter of Bardfield artists Bernard Cheese and Sheila Robinson, trained at Cambridge School of Art and the Royal College of Art 1973-76. She works...