26 July 2025 to 26 October 2025
Richard Bawden: The Hadleigh Years
We continue our 40th anniversary season with an opportunity to view and buy a selection of works from the later years of Richard Bawden’s creative life. Richard, like the Fry Gallery, started a new phase of his life in 1985 when he and his wife Hattie bought their house in Hadleigh.
He drew constantly in his house and garden, creating watercolours, etchings and linocuts. He moved freely between these different media, using his exceptional drawing skill and sensitive but varied colour palate, at times combining printmaking techniques or hand colouring etchings.
Richard knew about this exhibition a while before he died, and discussed the content with Hattie. He wished to concentrate on work he had done at home and while on his travels, particularly to the Suffolk coast. The exhibition in the Gibson Room will comprise a selection of framed and unframed works, some of which will be on offer for sale. Note that where framed works are purchased, they will need to be collected from the gallery after the end of the exhibition, on Monday 27th October.
Image of Richard Bawden at his house in Hadleigh with his cat Sasha taken by Doug Atfield