Our Artists
Craigie Aitchison CBE RSA, RA (1926 - 2009)
One of Britain’s most popular and respected figurative artist. Employing a deliberately naive style he adopted a technique using careful measuring and thinly applied paint to achieve subtle colour harmonies . Many images contain religious imagery.
Richard Allen (tbc)
Wildlife Artist, printmaker and painter who is inspired primarily by British Birds and wildlife found in his native East Anglia
Stuart Anderson (1967)
Stuart Anderson studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art, followed by Royal College of Art. He is best known for his bronze sculpture of figures, horses, greyhounds and other animals.
Ted Atkinson R.E., FRBS (1934 - 2016)
Sculptor and printmaker. Initially best known for his international architectural sculptures sited in Britain, Germany, Holland and USA. More recently he focussed on printmaking. Ted represented the UK at the Venice Bienale.
Anthony Atkinson RCA (1929 - 2014)
Atkinson is best known as a landscape painter who was especially drawn working in gouache and oils. He visited Provence in France regularly where he captured the light, vineyards and mountains. He also loved to paint the countryside near Colchester where he lived.
Gillian Ayres OBE RA (1930 - 2018)
Gillian Ayres is celebrated for her exuberant abstract paintings and prints, bursting with colour, energy, and expressive freedom. A leading figure in post‑war British art, she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1989, cementing her reputation as one of the most influential abstract artists of her generation.
Charles Bartlett RWS RE ARCA (1921 - 2014)
Charles Bartlett is recognised as one of Britain’s leading watercolour artists and printmakers. His work is deeply rooted in the landscapes of East Anglia, capturing the region’s distinctive light, wide open skies, flat horizons, and tidal estuaries. His paintings and prints reflect a lifelong fascination with the atmosphere and character of this unique coastal landscape.
Richard Bawden RWS, NEAC, RE (1936 - 2024)
Richard Bawden, the son of Edward and Charlotte Bawden, is a highly versatile Suffolk‑based artist known for his distinctive printmaking and expressive watercolours. His career spans an impressive range of disciplines: he has undertaken major commissions, illustrated books, created murals, engraved glass, designed cast‑iron furniture, and taught printmaking. His work reflects a strong sense of craftsmanship, wit, and a deep connection to the East Anglian artistic tradition.
Edward Bawden CBE RA (1903 - 1989)
Edward Bawden was one of the original Great Bardfield artists and is best known as a distinguished English painter and printmaker. His career, however, extended far beyond the studio. Bawden was also an accomplished illustrator and graphic artist, celebrated for his distinctive prints, book covers, posters, and even his designs for garden metalwork furniture. His work combines wit, craftsmanship, and a uniquely British sense of design, making him one of the most influential artists of his generation.
John Bellany RA (1942 - 2013)
John Bellany stands as one of the most influential Scottish artists of the 20th century, celebrated for his powerful, symbolic, and deeply personal paintings. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bellany moved away from traditional Scottish landscape painting and instead created emotionally charged works rooted in his own life story. Born and raised in the close‑knit fishing community of Port Seton, Bellany drew lifelong inspiration from the harsh realities and rituals of coastal life.y.
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder DBE, RWS, RA, RSA (1931 - 2021)
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder is celebrated as one of Britain’s most distinctive and accomplished artists, renowned for her beautifully observed paintings and prints of cats, flowers, and still life. Her work is held in major international collections, including the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and she has even been honoured with a dedicated series of Royal Mail postage stamps. Her precise yet poetic style, combined with her exceptional draughtsmanship, has made her one of the most recognisable and admired figures in contemporary British art.
Sir Peter Blake OBE (1932)
The Pop Artist Sir Peter Blake is acknowledged as one of Britain’s most celebrated artists and a defining figure of the Pop Art movement. He developed a distinctive style that blends popular culture, nostalgia, music, and everyday imagery into vibrant, often playful compositions. He is internationally recognised for co‑creating the iconic album cover for The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a work that cemented his status as a major cultural influence. Throughout his long career, Blake has produced paintings, collages, prints, and mixed‑media works that reflect his fascination with celebrity, childhood memorabilia, and the visual language of advertising.
Sandra Blow RA (1925 - 2006)
Sandra Blow RA was one of the leading lights of the abstract art movement of the 1950s in St. Ives, Cornwall.
Niki Bowers
An East Anglia printmaker inspired by wildlife, open skies, flocks of birds, landscapes and seascapes typical of the region.
Simon Carter (1961)
This artist's landscapes and seascapes continually blur the devisions between abstract and figurative art. He is driven to continuously make observations playing with painting process to convey his reaction to the Essex shoreline
Michael Chase (1915 - 2001)
Michael Chase mainly works in watercolour. He is inspired by his love of travel and often depicts historical buildings and artifacts. He enjoys mixing patterns with landscapes creating rich collage capturing the essence of a cultural awakening.
Chloe Cheese RCA (1952)
Chloë Cheese began work as an artist and freelance illustrator after leaving the Royal College of Art in 1976. She wanted her work to feel informal as though drawn directly onto the printed page. She rarely drew figures. Chloëʼs personal work always concerns her view of the world around her which she interprets according to her own observation and sensibility.
Bernard Cheese RCA R.E. (1925 - 2013)
Bernard Cheese – Printmaker, Painter & Great Bardfield Artist. He is a celebrated British printmaker, especially in lithography aswell as and painter. He is admired for his sensitive observations, and ability to capture joy in everyday life. His first wife was the artist Sheila Robinson and his daughter is the artist and illustrator Chloe Cheese.
Vasant Chinchwadkar (1934)
Vasant is an Indian artist who shares his time between India and UK. He tends to paint nudes and figures using a folk art style mixed with a little surrealism
Peter Coker RA RCA (1926 - 2004)
Coker was a painter and printmaker who was connected to the Kitchen Sink artists in 1950's. He was a strong advocate for draughtsmanship and was inspired by the natural world
Henry Collins (1910 - 1994)
A colchester based artist who worked as a designer, painter, and Art Tutor
Ben Coode-Adams (tbc)
Artist, Sculptor, Project Manager, Blacksmith, Builder, Forester, Farmer, Janitor,
Sonia Coode-Adams MBE (1940)
Sonia is best known for her exquisite use of colour. Although painting figuratively, her minimal style and careful selection of joyous colours create a certain calm and original view of the world
Eileen Cooper RA (1953)
Well known as a printmaker and painter, her stylised work is characterised by the use of bold linear figures encompassing a playful narrative.
Michael Coulter (1937)
Michael's observation of people, birds and the ordinary are portrayed skilfully with a light touch and quirky charm. Coastal and estuary settings of Essex, Suffolk & Norfolk regularly feature in his work.
Michael Craig-Martin CBE RA (1941)
Craig-Martin is best known for his intense colourful paintings and screenprints of household objects and belongings. Although in his earlier years he was more of a conceptual artist.
Sophie Crockett (1969)
Being brought up in the Suffolk countryside hugely influenced Sophie's art. Her yearning for a connection to the land, the stories and legends of human life and a love of horses have driven much of her creative output.
Clare Curtis (00)
Stunning printmaker & Illustrator who lives and works in East Anglia
Alan Davie RA (1920 - 2014)
James Alan Davie was a Scottish painter and musician. He was born in Grangemouth in 1920 and studied at Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1930s. An early exhibition of his work came through the Society of Scottish Artists
James Dodds RCA (1957)
James Dodds trained as a shipwright in Maldon, but is better known for his distinctive linocuts depicting coastal towns and nautical myths and his large unique and beautiful paintings of boats.
John Doubleday (1947)
His international reputation is more for public sculpture, howeever both his personal paintings and sculpture have a strong mystical sense as he contemplates ones journey through life.
Tracey Emin CBE RA (1963)
Tracey Emin is one of the so-called Young British Artists (YBAs). She is known for shocking the public with her intimate works of art - in particular her piece My Bed, which was part of the 1999 Turner Prize exhibition, and other works of a sexual nature.
Ravilious Eric (1903 - 1942)
Ravilious was a noted war artist, designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter.
Melvyn Evans (1958)
Melvyn is predominantly a printmaker with a unique style. He is able to capture the essence of a place reflecting the shapes and the colours often encorporating boats and life by the sea
Helen Fay RCA (tbc)
Known for her etchings which work which illustrate the beauty, dignity and character of animals . The poise and movement of animals, their behaviour and nature.
Mary Fedden OBE RA (1915 - 2012)
Mary was born in Bristol and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. She developed her own unique style of painting imaginative bold quirky and colourful still lives, flowers, people reminiscent of artists such as Matisse and Braque.
Flora Forshall
Flora is predominantly a printmaker who specialises in producing large colourful screenprints.
Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993)
Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993) is internationally recognised as one of the most important British sculptors of the 20th century, celebrated for her powerful figurative sculptures, expressive drawings, and distinctive prints. Her work explores themes of humanity, vulnerability, strength, and the natural world, often conveyed through dynamic male figures, animals, and birds rendered with raw emotional intensity.
Sir Terry Frost OBE RA (1915 - 2003)
Sir Terry Frost was a leading St Ives abstract artist celebrated for his bold use of colour, dynamic circular motifs, and joyful geometric compositions. His paintings and prints capture rhythm, movement, and a deep sense of visual harmony, establishing a style that remains instantly recognisable. As a central figure in post‑war British abstraction and a key member of the St Ives School, Frost’s innovative approach continues to influence contemporary artists and attract strong interest from collectors worldwide
Anthony Frost (1951)
is an English painter noted for his abstract works consisting of brightly coloured prints and collages.
Moss Fuller RCA (1937 - 2021)
Moss fuller is a painter and printmaker whose love of the land in Suffolk, consistently inspired and informed her art.
Tirzah Garwood (1908 - 1951)
Garwood was a member of the Great Bardfield Artists. Best known for her wood-engravings, paintings, and as an author. She was married to war artist Eric Ravilious.
Perry Grayson CBE RA (1960)
Grayson Perry CBE RA is an English contemporary artist. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, and for dissecting British "prejudices, fashions and foibles"
Anthony Gross CBE RA (1905 - 1984)
Anthony Gross is best known as a British printmaker, painter, war artist and film director. He is of Hungarian-Jewish, Italian, and Anglo-Irish descent
Richard Hamilton (1922 - 2013)
Richard Hamilton was the founder of Pop art and a visionary who outlined its aims and ideals. A lollipop from one of his early collages furnished the movement with its title. His visual juxtapositions from the 1950s were the first to capture the frenetic energy of television, and remind us of how strange the vacuum, tape recorder, and radio must have seemed for the first generations that experienced them. "Pop Art" the British artist declared, would be: "Popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business."
Angela Harding (tbc)
British birds and wild life have inspired Angela’s images since her student days, in particular her love of familiar garden birds, and also Sea birds found in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cornwall. Working mainly in lino/vinyl and silkscreen, she illustrates her passion for line, combining atmosphere, sense of place and strength of form.
Ian Hay RCA (1940 - 2025)
Ian Hay is known for his exquisite paintings of London, Venice, Paris in addition to landscapes in and around his local town of Colchester. His impressionist style capturing the light and charm with subtle colours is held together with strong drawing
Mark Hearld (1974)
Hearld is fascinated by nature and its inhabitants. Foxes chickens, cattle and a array of plants and fauna regularly feature in his art works
Ronald Hellen
Ronald's colourful paintings are essentially about place and trying to capture the atmosphere peculiar to particular buildings, scenes or locations.
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
Known as a leading sculptor of the 20th Century and leading 'St. Ives' artist. Her work exemplifies Modernism and one of the key figures in the development of abstraction.
Clive Hicks-Jenkins (1951)
Clive is a renown actor, director & stage designer who has succesfully turned his hand to painting, printmaking and illustration.
David Hockney RA RCA (1937)
David Hockney is without doubt the best known and most influentual painter, printmaker and photograph of his generation worldwide. Notorious for his large colourful paintings reflecting life in California, his amazing use of glorious colours and an amazing draughsman.
Iona Howard
Predomininatly a printmaker who works using the carborundum technique to capture the landscapes of Cornwall and more recently The Fens. Reflecting the flatness and ever changing light and colours.
Peter Howson OBE (1958)
is a Scottish painter. He was a British official war artist in 1993 during the Bosnian War
John Hoyland RA (1934 - 2011)
John Hoyland studied at Sheffield School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. His work is represented in public collections including the Royal Academy of Arts, Tate and the Victoria & Albert Museum. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991.
Blair Hughes-Stanton (1902 - 1981)
This artist is known best for his brilliant wood engravings which often involved an element of eroticism. He was a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society and was commission to illustrate many important books with his engravings.
Albert Irvin OBE RA (1922 - 2015)
Albert Irvin is a celebrated British artist best known for his exuberant abstract compositions. His compelling distinctive and bold screen prints focus on capturing his experience of the world
Wendy Jacob RWS
Wendy is best known for her gouache paintings of still lives gardens and plants using beautiful and subtle colours.
Olwen Jones RWS RE (1945)
Owen Jones expresses her passion for the natural world with simply exquisite watercolours. Drawn to conservatories and green houses full of flowers, foliage and an abundance of natural sunlight.
McDonagh Kay
Kay is a printmaker who specializes in characterful images of Cats and Dogs
Anita Klein PPRE (1960)
Anita Klein's subjects are autobiographical, incorporating reoccurring themes such family, her love of swimming, as angels and wine or humorously celebrating the small moments in everyday life.
Karolina Larusdottir RWS RE (1944 - 2019)
Karolina is a painter printmaker, who creates a mystic world of her own, with imaginary people maybe from memory or ideas which often involve floating angels and strange scenarios, each wrapped up in a surreal and timeless atmosphere.
Kit Leese
Kit is an Essex based artist and is an experienced landscape painter who specialises in gouache and watercolour. He is also a printmaker and one of the founding members of Twelve PM
Martin Leman RBA RWS (1934)
Known worldwide for his cat paintings but is also an excellent painter of still life which often containing stones with a sense of St. Ives about them. Martin has had many one man shows in London, and has also shown regularly in St Ives.
Jill Leman PRWS RBA
Current President of The Royal Watercolour Society. Jill is best known for hers distinctive colourful yet subtle still lives full of beauty and tenderness
Angie Lewin (1963)
Angie Lewin is a well known printmaker and painter known for her unique style capturing plants, flowers, seedheads and more.
Jane Lewis RWS
Jane lives in rural Suffolk and expresses herself mainly through colourful abstract in oils, acrylics and watercolour often inspired by landscape.
Sanchia Lewis (1960)
Best knowns for her paintings and prints af animals whereby she has used her subconscious mind. Her ideas evolve into richly textured, brightly coloured works
Bennett Lucy
Best known for her provocative portraits of women, London-based British artist Lucie Bennett explores female identity and sexuality using simple, elegantly applied lines and block colour forms to create distinctive, timeless pieces.
Jennie Mace
Jennie Mace is an Essex based Artist She initially trained and worked as a Medical Scientist in the School of Pathology, The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London,WI. After leaving the Middlesex, Jennie studied at the Colchester School of Art. She was subsequently Tutored by David Mynett, Sir Edward Fairfax-Lucy, the late John Miller ,Jeremy Le Grice and Roger Dellar. Jennie's paintings are in private collections all over the worls including ,Spain, Germany, Saudi Arabia, G South Africa, New Zealand, Canada and USA.
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
Matisse is best known as a pioneer of the Fauvism Movement and is one of the most famous artists of 20th Century. His cut out series from 1950, later published as colour lithographs by Mourlot Freres, in the Verve 35/36 are popular images today
Kay McDonagh
Kay is known for her exquisite drypoint etchings of animals, in particular cats and dogs
Bruce McLean (1944)
Initially a sculptor who likes to convey sculptural objects now mainly in 2D form. Best known for his bold atmospheric predominantly abstract compositions.
Helen Millar
Helen is a watercolour artist best known for her fascination with organic pattern and especially her depictions of flowers. With a background of textile design having worked with Sandersons and John Lewis.
Sir Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. The most famous British Sculptor in living memory, noted for his large bronze abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures.
Elizabeth Morris
Liz is a printmaker who enjoys islands and the sea. Sea and sand patterns, shapes of stones, textures, imprints in mud and tracks of birds, fish, gulls - and most recently – sea myths and biblical stories with sea references, are all used as starting points for her etchings
John Northcote Nash CBE RA (1893 - 1977)
John Nash was a British painter of landscapes and stilllifes, and a woodengraver and illustrator, particularly of botanic works. He was the younger brother of Paul Nash,
Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)
Nash is best known as a war artist and surrealist painter. He is widely known as a very important British landscape artists from the twentieth century, playing a key role in the development of Modernism in English art.
John O'Connor RCA RE RWS (1913 - 2004)
John O'Connor was born in Leicester in 1913. He studied at the Royal College of Art under Eric Ravillious and John Nash. He illustrated many books and had his work in many exhibitions. From 1948 to 1964 O'Connor was Head of Colchester College of Art. His work is held at the Arts Council, The Tate Gallery, and British Museum.
Julian Opie (1958)
Opie graduated in 1982 from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was taught by conceptual artist and painter Michael Craig-Martin. He is best known for his portraits and animated walking figures, rendered with minimal detail in black line drawing, are hallmarks of the artist's style.
Dione Page R.W.A (1936 - 2021)
Dione enjoys weaving together still life with landscape and seascape painting with gouache and mixed media. Her main influences are Mary Fedden and Edward Bawden
Shanti Panchal RWS RBA (1951)
Shanti Panchal is a leading London-based Indian artist with an international reputation. Painting with watercolour building layer upon layer, he employs an earthen palette depicting his early years spent in a village in Gujarat, Western India.
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi KBE RA (1924 - 2005)
Paolozzi is one of the earliest British Pop Artists and sculptors who became a major figure in the international artworld. He collected mechanical parts and images creating his own sphere who collected fragments and created his own vision
Victor Pasmore (1908 - 1998)
Perhaps the most influential abstract artist in Britain and leading abstract painters & printmaker of our time
Caulfield Patrick CBE RA ARCA (1936 - 2005)
Royal Academician who was part of the British Pop movement.
Barbara Peirson (tbc)
Barbara is an Essex based artist who mainly paints in acrylics. She is interested in figures landscapes and estuary Life in addition to Still life. She is a member of the esteemed Contemporary British Painting group.
John Piper RCA (1903 - 1992)
John Piper is 20th Century British artist, celebrated as a war artist and for his atmospheric depictions of ruined churches, castles, stately homes, still life and the British landscape. His distinctive style—combining bold design, with dramatic colour. Piper’s paintings, prints, and lithographs remain especially his evocative architectural studies that capture the character and history of Britain’s heritage sites..
Patrick Procktor RA (1936 - 2002)
Patrick Procktor RA was a prominent English artist of the late 20th century who had an exquisite sense of colour and design. He is best known for his painting, printmaking, illustration and theatre design
Sally Pudney (tbc)
Her work is mainly of East Anglian coastal scenes, especially Mersea Island which she has known well since childhood, seeking to capture the particular character of spaciousness and subtle colour in the sea, the dramatic skies, the small boats and the mud! Other coastal paintings focus on North Norfolk and the Suffolk coast.
Marc Quinn
British Contemporary Artist known as a membber of the young British Artists. His subject often concentrates on the human body, questioning identity, enviroment and our place in the world
Barbara Rae CBE RA (1943)
Rae's imagery combines influence of travel & sun drenched colour with human traces and patterns in the landscape to successfully create exotic abstract and semi abstract compositions.
Eric Ravilious RCA (1903 - 1942)
known for his distinctive watercolours and wood engravings that capture the quiet beauty of the English landscape. His clean lines, subtle colour palettes, and modern yet nostalgic style have made him one of the most recognisable and sought‑after artists of the 20th century. Eric Ravilious was an official war artist during the Second World War and produced some of his most iconic work, documenting coastal defences, aircraft, and naval scenes with clarity and poetic restraint. Hi is best known as a painter, wood engraver, designer, book illustrator
Dame Paula Rego (1935)
An artist interested in a powerful narrative who often draws from folk tales and stories told to her in her childhood which resonate today.
Kate Reynolds (1961)
Kate is best known for her Raku fired sculptures more often of figures and heads. They capture the essence of a person with simplicity and soul
Professor Freddie Robins (1965)
Freddie Robins is Professor of Textiles at the Royal College of Art, London. She produces contemporary art works using textile materials and processes. Robins is renowned for her inventive and provocative use of knitting,
Sheila Robinson (1925 - 1988)
Sheila Robinson was a British artist and illustrator and perhaps best known as one of the Great Bardfield Artists. She studied under Edward Bawden at Royal College of art, and subsequently joined his team to work on a commission for the Festival of Britain.
Michael Rothenstein RA (1908 - 1993)
Rothenstein was an pioneering early British Pop Artist and printmaker. Using power tools and photography he opened up ideas of printmaking. He is Also known as one of the Bardfield Artists
Sula Rubens RWS
Sula Rubens has travelled experience is reflected in her artwork. She immerses herself in various landscapes, buildings and their people, with great empathy.
Pam Schomberg (tbc)
Pam lives & works in North Essex. She specializes in constructed and hand-built porcelain and stoneware.
Anne Schwegmann-Fielding (tbc)
Anne Schwegmann-Fielding is an internationally renowned British sculptor and mosaic artist. She has been creating artworks using predominantly recycled materials for commission and exhibition since the early 1990's. She is based in the Roman capital of Britain, Colchester, UK
Arabella Shand
Arabella paints still lifes, birds, landscapes, figures and interiors which are layered with charm, atmospheric and sublime colours
David Shrigley OBE (1968)
Shrigley is a celebrated Contemporary artist who is best known for his humorous animals and naive style
Michael Smee (1946)
Michael’s paintings reflect his interest in bar/cafe and pub life and the interaction of people within. Capturing a very British Culture which is slowly disappearing
Nicola Smee
Nicola illustrates and writes Picture books for children. Her Artwrok has also been commissioned for book jackets, comics, magaines, card design, logos anthologies and children's TV programmes.
Tessa Spencer Pryse RBA (tbc)
Tessa is based in Essex, East Anglia and her foremost talent is her successful capturing of light and colour as it bounces, reflects and highlights. Seascapes, estuary views of Essex, French vistas, cafe scenes, Venice markets and the occasional still life fill her canvasses. Her work is influenced by the French Impressionists and Scottish Colourists
Humphrey Spender (1910 - 2005)
Humphrey Spender was a versatile British documentary photographer for the Mass Observation Project and as a and Picture Post. He was also a painter, printmaker, and one of the most influential documentary photographers of the 20th century., documenting ordinary people and social realities with honesty, subtlety, and a deep respect for his subjects. His photographs from this period remain some of the most important visual records of pre‑war British life. Spender later worked for Picture Post, one of the most influential photo‑journalistic magazines of the era, before serving as an Official War Office photographer during the Second World War. His wartime images combined clarity, compassion
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Sutherland was a leading British painter and printmaker whose work helped shape the direction of Modern British art in the mid‑20th century. Initially trained as a printmaker, Sutherland gained early recognition for his etchings and engravings, which remain highly valued by collectors for their technical precision and atmospheric intensity. His later paintings—marked by bold forms, surreal landscapes, and powerful symbolism—secured his reputation as one of Britain’s most influential modern artists.
Atkinson Ted (1928 - 2016)
Ted trained as a sculptor at Liverpool College of Art and the Slade School. He taught sculpture, initially in Exeter and later at Leeds and Coventry. He represented UK at the Venice Bienale in the 1950's
Glynn Thomas RE (1946)
Glynn Thomas specialises in Etchings of locations around the UK especially of places such as Walberswick, Southworld, Cambridge and London - which all mean something to him. He loves detail and uses additional perspectives to enable him to include even more in his pictures.
Valerie Thornton R.E. (1931 - 1986)
painter and printmaker, was born in London on April 13, 1931. ... In 1944, she returned to London where her art studies began in 1949 at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting.
Julian Trevelyan (1910 - 1988)
Julian TREVELYAN was a Painter and engraver of Surrealist and Expressionist. He was also a poet. He was married to Mary Fedden
Charles F Tunnicliffe OBE RA (1901 - 1979)
Much of Tunnicliffe's work depicted birds in their natural settings and other naturalistic scenes. He illustrated Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter.[7] His work was also used to illustrate Brooke Bond tea cards and as a result was seen by millions of young people in the United Kingdom during the 1950s and 1960s. He also illustrated a number of books, including the Ladybird books
Leon Underwood (1890 - 1975)
Leon Underwood (born 25 December 1890 in Shepherds Bush, London, died 9 October 1975) "The precursor of modern sculpture in Britain" was a noted British sculptor, painter, draughtsman and engraver as well as a writer and illustrator, scholar, teacher, philosopher and stained glass and furniture craftsman. He attended the Slade School of Art and founded the magazine The Island in 1931. His work was influenced by African and Cycladic designs.
Catherine Vitebsky
Vitebsky is a figurative sculptor working predominantly in bronze and casting her own work. She is preoccupied with transformation and with the anthropomorphic: the place where animal and human intersect, both in folklore and as it relates to the human condition.
Joan Warburton (1920 - 1996)
Joan is best known for her vibrant watercolours and oils of everyday Suffolk regularly depicting flowers, landscapes and animals. She was also was one of the first artists to join Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines at The East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, which was based in Dedham before it later went to Hadleigh
Mary Webb (1939)
Mary is a well established abstract artist who is inspired by colour and sense of place
Chris Wenlock (1947)
AN Essex artist who is attracted to grasses, expanses of wild flowers, beguiling buildings, dunes and beach huts by the Blackwater estuary