Beachy Head Lighthouse by Eric Ravilious
Beachy Head Lighthouse by Eric Ravilious
- 🎨 Eric Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator, and wood-engraver.
- 🏞️ He is renowned for his watercolours depicting English landscapes like the South Downs and Castle Hedingham with a modernist sensibility.
- 📚 Ravilious received scholarships to study art, became friends with Edward Bawden, and studied under Paul Nash.
- 👩🎨 He married Tirzah Garwood, also an artist and engraver, and they had three children.
- 🖌️ Ravilious worked on various commissions, including murals at Morley College and designs for Wedgwood ceramics.
- 🚢 He served as a war artist during WWII, producing paintings depicting naval scenes and coastal defenses.
- ✈️ Ravilious tragically died in 1942 while on a search mission during the war, and his body was never recovered.
- 🖼️ His works are now held in various collections and have been featured in exhibitions worldwide, including retrospectives at galleries like the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Towner Gallery.
Available as a fine art print and as a stretched canvas panel (heavy fine art canvas stretched over 1.5 inch deep edge solid wood frame).
All prints are made using archival art stocks and UV pigment inks to give up to 200 years life. Prints are sold unframed and unmounted.
