Skipwith, Peyton – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:40:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Skipwith, Peyton – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Eric Ravilious Scrapbooks https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/eric-ravilious-scrapbooks/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/eric-ravilious-scrapbooks/ To the interested observer the collected volumes of artist-designer Eric Ravilious’s preparatory works and materials  provide a veritable mine of information about his work and working methods, particularly regarding the masterful development of his signature pure pattern. Ravilious’s scrapbooks represent a conscious accumulation of reference material, revealing his interest in subjects as diverse as tennis, cricket, fireworks and aeronautics, alongside a multitude of sketches, tracings and proofs of engravings.

Ravilious’s scrapbooks do not contain the mass of fascinating but disparate material seen, for example, in similar volumes compiled by his great friend and artistic contemporary Edward Bawden. Rather, they document the considered progression of an inquisitive mind, grasping his chosen subjects in a unique and delicate visual language, where many of the artist’s most famous motifs and images can be seen blossoming from embryonic stages. Bringing together over 400 images taken from the artist’s 6 scrapbooks, accompanied by instructive commentary by the authors, this new book provides a fascinating record of the febrile imagination of one of Britain’s best-loved artists.

]]> Edward Bawdens London https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/edward-bawdens-london/ Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/edward-bawdens-london/ This beautiful book, with almost 200 striking images, shows London as represented by Edward Bawden (1903-1989) in prints, posters, drawings, paintings, murals and advertising material produced during his long career. The wide range of illustrations includes early work executed whilst a student in the early 1920s; the Morley College murals carried out in partnership with Eric Ravilious; advertising work for London Transport, Fortnum & Mason, Twinings Teas, Shell, Westminster Bank; the mural for the Lion & Unicorn Pavilion at the 1951 Festival of Britain; and a varied selection of his finest series of linocuts – including London Monuments and London Markets.

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