Great Bardfield Parish Council
'ESSEX VILLAGE OF THE YEAR 2009'
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Great Bardfield Parish Council
'ESSEX VILLAGE OF THE YEAR 2009'
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Eric Ravilious Lived for a while in Great Bardfield, and then moved to Castle Hedingham. He designed a china dinner service which is very collectable. He became a war artist, but was posted missing off Iceland in 1942. From 23rd October to 25 January 2004, there was a centenary exhibition of his work at the Imperial War Museum in London. The exhibition was called 'Imagined Realities', and this is what the Museum has to say about him..... During a short career, Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942) produced paintings and designs that revitalized long-established traditions and reformulated national icons. In a major retrospective, to celebrate the centenary of his birth, the Imperial War Museum London presents the largest ever display of his work, including over one hundred of Ravilious's water-colours, mural designs, woodcuts, book illustrations, ceramics, furniture and glassware. The exhibition includes works from private collections, rarely seen in public, as well as those from national collections, and, for the first time ever, his chalk figure paintings will be shown together.
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