This very striking portrait is of Tirzah Garwood (Mrs Ravilious) and is part of the exhibition The Women of Bardfield which opened at the Fry Gallery in Saffron Walden on Easter Sunday. Great Bardfield in Essex attracted Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious from around 1925. What Frances Spalding decribes as the "low key and slightly melancholic landscape" suited the "poetic understatement" of both artists. This exhibition concentrates on the work of the wives of Bawden and Ravilious, the first two of several women artists who settled and exhibited in this village.
Like most artistic colonies people came and went, relationships broke down and reformed. Some Bardfield women went on to achieve a national reputation, others merely a local. This is the first exhibition to celebrate the work of these women - who juggled childcare and artistic ambition in a predominently male world.
Like most artistic colonies people came and went, relationships broke down and reformed. Some Bardfield women went on to achieve a national reputation, others merely a local. This is the first exhibition to celebrate the work of these women - who juggled childcare and artistic ambition in a predominently male world.I
I know this view very well. The pub has recently been refurbished - only there a week or so ago for an evening of Irish poetry and song. Exhibition closes on July 4th - see http://www.fryartgalery.org/
I know this view very well. The pub has recently been refurbished - only there a week or so ago for an evening of Irish poetry and song. Exhibition closes on July 4th - see http://www.fryartgalery.org/
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