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The Arts Society Ashdown Forest presents a lecture by Jo Walton.
'So they do cook after all! Bawden, Ravilious and the Great Bardfield Artists’
In 1932 the artist Edward Bawden and his wife Charlotte moved to the Essex village of Great Bardfield, with another couple Eric Ravilious and Tirzah Garwood. It was the start of a fascinating artistic community, with other painters, printmakers and designers settling in the village in the following years. Bawden and Ravilious saw active service as War Artists and others of them captured the changing world of rural England through the Recording Britain project. By the fifties it was a diverse, innovative and highly creative group - to the bemusement of the locals, who found the complex relationships and artistic focus baffling. So the artists invited the public into their homes to see their work, starting the increasingly popular ‘Open Studios’ movement, persuading some of them that artists could be quite normal after all!
Jo Walton has combined teaching and lecturing with a career in art bookselling, and has worked as a guide at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. She is now a freelance lecturer for the Arts Society, the Art Fund and Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery.
In 1932 the artist Edward Bawden and his wife Charlotte moved to the Essex village of Great Bardfield, with another couple Eric Ravilious and Tirzah Garwood. It was the start of a fascinating artistic community, with other painters, printmakers and designers settling in the village in the following years. Bawden and Ravilious saw active service as War Artists and others of them captured the changing world of rural England through the Recording Britain project. By the fifties it was a diverse, innovative and highly creative group - to the bemusement of the locals, who found the complex relationships and artistic focus baffling. So the artists invited the public into their homes to see their work, starting the increasingly popular ‘Open Studios’ movement, persuading some of them that artists could be quite normal after all!
Jo Walton has combined teaching and lecturing with a career in art bookselling, and has worked as a guide at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. She is now a freelance lecturer for the Arts Society, the Art Fund and Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery.
2pm. Members free, £7 for visitors who are very welcome.
Crowborough Community Centre
Pine Grove East Sussex TN6 1FE
Thu 8 February
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