During the year of 1939, Eric Ravilious toured Dorset, Sussex, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire, recording chalk hill figures for a proposed children’s book for Puffin. It was customary then to have a mock-up of a proposed book, and Ravilious had indeed produced one by 1942. In the August of that year, while serving as a war …
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The Lost Eric Ravilious Hill Figure Book.
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Eric Ravilious – Wet Afternoon
Text by James Russell. Eric Ravilious – Wet Afternoon. ‘The scene depicting the holly hedges and boxy church of St. Mary depicted in Wet Afternoon remains much the same today. Inevitably our eyes are drawn to the figure striding down the hill away from us. Is he simply a passer-by? Or a kind of self-portrait of the …
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Eric Ravilious – The Wilmington Giant
Text by James Russell. ‘An easy cycle ride from his boyhood home and clearly visible from the window of the Eastbourne – Lewes train, the Long Man of Wilmington intrigued Ravilious greatly. In a rare piece of published writing he mused on its origins, suggesting that it might be a representation of Virgo, and he …
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Eric Ravilious ‘Train Landscape’.
Eric Ravilious ‘Train Landscape’. ‘Look at the detail in this painting: the upholstery so carefully and sensitively realised; the window strap that is clearly made of leather and not some artificial material; the window fittings and the striped draught strips. The interior of the railway compartment is so beautifully drawn, with such clarity, that it …
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