Andrews, Sybil – In Full Cry
Linocut (1931). Original size: 29.0 x 41.9cm. Compare with Andrew’s ‘Waterjump’ – a black and white rendition; but here’s there’s colour. This is, of course, not accurate in its portrayal – the red,...
View ArticleAndrews, Sybil – Haysel
Linocut (1936). Original size: 24.4 x 28.8cm. Compare with Sybil Andrews’ ‘Mowers’ print. Whereas in ‘Mowers’ it is the scythes which are prominent and the burnt earth colours, in this print it is the...
View ArticleAndrews, Sybil – Hauling
Linocut (1952). Original size: 26.6 x 31.7cm. The sound of the motor, huge and rumbling – in autidory proportion, no doubt, with the size of the massive wood trunks; and the vantage point of the...
View ArticleAndrews, Sybil – Gypsies
Linocut (1939). Original size: 27.3 x 35.4cm. Quintessential Andrews in many ways: the roundness of the earth making it seem as if the very globe is being traversed.The post Andrews, Sybil – Gypsies...
View ArticleAndrews, Sybil – Gale
Linocut (1930). Original size: 21.2 x 24.6cm. There’s a geometry of circles, globes, moons, and of course of wind vortices. But amongst all of this our couple, protected by huge half-crescent...
View ArticleAndrews, Sybil – Football
Linocut (1937). Printed from four blocks in Venetian Red; Crimson; a mixture of Permanent Blue and Grey; Chinese Blue. Original size: 25.0 x 31.7cm. In this print Andrews makes angular the physicality...
View ArticleAndrews, Sybil – Fall of the Leaf
Linocut (1934). Original size: 36.4 x 25.9cm. One of Andrew’s best loved prints, with fans as treetops; fields high and swooping, and a captivating overall geometry.The post Andrews, Sybil – Fall of...
View ArticleAndrews, Sybil – Concert Hall
Linocut (1929). Original size: 28.4 x 23.5cm. Printed from four blocks, in yellow ochre, light blue, dark blue and black. This is Queen’s Hall, a concert venue completed in 1893 but bombed in the...
View ArticleAndrews, Sybil – Coffee Bar
Linocut (1952). Original size: 22.1 x 22.8cm. Quintessential 1950’s with their checked shirts and peaked hats – and with contemporary vintage appeal too. The post Andrews, Sybil – Coffee Bar appeared...
View ArticleAndrews, Sybil – Bringing in the Boat
Linocut (1933). Original size: 33.1 x 26.0cm. As in so many of the Grosvenor School prints, it is movement which is highlighted. Here the rowers lift the boat, the uniformity of movement an echo of the...
View ArticleAndrews, Sybil – Hyde Park
Colour linocut (1931). Original size: 33.8 x 15.4 cm. A semi-abstract pattern composed of formal hats and the bosky green of Hyde Park. This is a depiction of a comfortable walk – a Sunday afternoon...
View ArticleAlexander, Isabel – Orkney Crossing
Oil on canvas, 1993, original size: 55.0 x 67.0cm. Isabel Alexander had several stints at art school, but in the 1960’s she returned for more schooling, first for a term at the Slade under Andrew...
View ArticleAlexander, Isabel – North Essex Landscape
Watercolour, c. 1949; original size 35.0 x 41.0cm. Much of Alexander’s work can be said to belong to the Neo-Romantic tradition, and certain of the paintings are very reminiscent of Ravilious. But this...
View ArticlePalmer, Simon – East of Eden
Watercolour on paper, (1998). Original size: 63.5 x 60.0 cm. This is Yorkshire: dry-stone walls; a small up-hill down-dale lane, and at the forefront a traveller’s stump, a place to rest a while. And...
View ArticlePalmer, Simon – Pilgrim’s Way
Original Size 88.3 x 65.0cm, ink and watercolour. As so often in Palmer’s work the narrative is strong: pilgrims walk along a path between trees, through a wood, and towards a church. But this is not...
View ArticlePalmer, Simon – The Wesleyan Chapel
Snow, deep and crisp and even, and there’s a preternatural light, such as you experience when snow has newly fallen. As in so many of Palmer’s pictures, there’s a road, curving towards some unspecified...
View ArticlePasmore, Victor – Points of Contact No.24
Original size: 91.4 x 63.5. Screenprint, 1974. Richly inked and beautifully proportioned, green on the one side, mustard yellow on the other, and a bridge linking both in classic ‘points of contact’...
View ArticlePasmore, Victor – The Abstract
Original size: 230.00 x 100.00cm, etching and aquatint, 1972. Rich browns and heavily inked blacks; two rectangles symmetrically linked by a conversation between spheres and blobs placed centrally...
View ArticleRavilious Eric – Beachy Head Lighthouse – Belle Tout
Description: 1939; pencil and watercolour. By the time Ravilious painted Belle Tout it was being used as a private house, its use as lighthouse no longer needed due to the new lighthouse below the...
View ArticlePalmer, Simon – Mary South
Watercolour, ink and gouache (1997). At first you do not notice the young woman kicking leaves. Your eye is drawn up through the picture, onto the path, up the sculptural trees to the branches above...
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