Kitty Etching by Richard Bawden 2012
Richard Bawden, in common with many of the artists collected by the Fry Art Gallery, was a committed ailurophile. His tabby ‘Sasha’ featured in many of his works, and is immortalised in media as diverse as tea towels and garden benches. He also appears in a number of etchings now on display in the Gibson Room at the gallery, in the exhibition Richard Bawden: The Hadleigh Years.
The exhibition charts Richard’s interests in his later years spent in Hadleigh, Suffolk. He worked in etching, linocut and watercolour to depict life at home in Hadleigh and away on the Suffolk Coast and further afield. Many of the framed works in the exhibition are on sale, along with a selection of unframed works, which will be refreshed during the course of the exhibition. If you want a permanent souvenir of Kitty you can buy a high quality A2 size poster of the image when you visit the gallery. Note that the poster is not for sale on the on-line shop.
Richard Bawden: The Hadleigh Years is in the Gibson Room at the Fry Art Gallery from Saturday 26th July until Sunday 26th October.