My Mother’s House

My Mother’s House

Work of the month

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...
Still Life with Mandolin

Still Life with Mandolin

Work of the month

Artist: Robrt MacBryde Lived: 1913 – 1966 Medium: Oil Catalogue number: 3139 Image Height/Width: 384 x 537 mm Scottish painter of still life and figure subjects; also stage designer. Born 5 December 1913 at Maybole, Ayrshire. Worked for five years in a factory;...
Cemetery in Enna, Siciliy

Cemetery in Enna, Siciliy

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Artist: Walter Hoyle Lived: 1922 – 2000 Medium: Watercolour Catalogue number: 319 Image Height/Width: 475 x 591 mm Walter Hoyle (1922 -2000), born in Lancashire, was educated at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art. In 1952, he moved to Great...
Jug by Charlotte Bawden

Jug by Charlotte Bawden

Work of the month

Artist: Charlotte Bawden Lived:1902 -1970 Medium: Ceramic Catalogue number: 3243 Born Charlotte Epton, she was a contemporary of Edward Bawden, her future husband, at the Royal College of Art where she studied painting. But her real inclination was for pottery,...
Bird and Sun

Bird and Sun

Work of the month

Artist: Michael Rothenstein CBE RA Lived: 1908 – 1993 Medium: Linocut, 1956 – 1957 Catalogue number: 2527 Image Height/Width: 392 x 577mm Purchased from The Nottingham Education Trust Michael Rothenstein, son of Sir William Rothenstein, was viewed as the...
Adam with Pram

Adam with Pram

Work of the month

Artist: Kenneth Rowntree Lived: 1915 – 1997 Medium: Watercolour Catalogue no.: 755 Image Height/Width: 185 x 335mm Purchased from Diana Rowntree Rowntree was born in Yorkshire to a Quaker family. He trained as an artist under Barnett Freedman and eventually...