It has been a while since I blogged, mostly due to life getting in the way. But last weekend I saw a wonderful exhibition which I have to talk about. Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship. English Artist Designers 1922-1942 is currently at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, having already been at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne and at Millenium Gallery, Sheffield. It explores the significant relationships and working collaborations
between Ravilious and an important group of friends and affiliates. There were works by Edward Bawden, Paul Nash, John Nash, Enid Marx, Barnett Freedman, Tirzah Garwood, Douglas Percy Bliss, Peggy Angus and Helen Binyon. The full breadth of their work as arists/designers was on show, book covers, London Underground posters, pottery as well as paintings, fabrics and woodcuts.
I have a great love for 20th century modern art, and have been learning a lot about it in the last few years. Eric Ravilious is one of those artists who has kept on appearing in various books and exhibitions, a few of his watercolours were part of last year's British Art: Ancient Landscapes exhibition at Salisbury Museum, alongside works by Paul Nash and John Piper.
I had also recently read a fascinating book by Alexandra Harris, Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper, which covered a huge amount of ground in the art and literature of the 1920s and 30s and discussed the juxtaposition of modernism and the romantic attitude to the landscape.
The exhibition has inspired me to open up the kinds of works I am doing and on the train home at the weekend, my head was buzzing with ideas.
I have a great love for 20th century modern art, and have been learning a lot about it in the last few years. Eric Ravilious is one of those artists who has kept on appearing in various books and exhibitions, a few of his watercolours were part of last year's British Art: Ancient Landscapes exhibition at Salisbury Museum, alongside works by Paul Nash and John Piper.
I had also recently read a fascinating book by Alexandra Harris, Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper, which covered a huge amount of ground in the art and literature of the 1920s and 30s and discussed the juxtaposition of modernism and the romantic attitude to the landscape.
The exhibition has inspired me to open up the kinds of works I am doing and on the train home at the weekend, my head was buzzing with ideas.
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