An early work by Ravilious, it’s very different to his later paintings and depicts the South Downs in East Sussex.
It depicts a cruiser, possibly HMS Berwick at Rosyth, decorated with dazzle camouflage.
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It’s #NationalBookshopDay - go and support your local bookshop or order from an Indie online. Ravilious made this wonderful impression of a bookshop for his ‘High Street’ volume published in 1938.
Eric Ravilious. The Stork at Hammersmith. Watercolour. 1933.
Ethereal paintings that capture the imagination.
A wartime view of this East Sussex harbour.
It appears to depict Sheerness in Kent in the early years of WW2.
Mug of porcelain, transfer-print designed by Eric Ravilious, made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent, 1939.
The Mansion House, from Nine London Monuments
There is a palpable mood of nostalgia in England at present. This may have been expressed politically in Brexit, but it is also visible in the popular taste for “heritage” and lost worlds. In particular, Britain is awash with books and films about World War II, which all these painters lived through and which became part of their artistic legacy. The England that Ravilious and Bawden evoked so powerfully reflected neither reactionary sentiment nor aimless aesthetic ideals. Their rural vision was not about an escapist rural retreat or nostalgic nationalism, but about a precious common heritage, something worth fighting for.
