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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Bernard and Sheila Cheese (nee Robinson). They moved to Bardfield End Green in 1953. Bernard was best known for coloured lithographs, and Sheila designed posters and illustrations. Later Sheila moved into Bardfield with her two small children, and was responsible for the four prints of Bardfield scenes used on the front cover of the Bardfield Times. See the photograph of some of the artists in the Fry Gallery. She moved to Saffron Walden in 1968. Michael Rothenstein. Rothenstein moved into to Chapel Cottage, next to the Aldridges, but soon moved into in Ethel House, High Street, with Duffy Fitzgerald. He built the studio which can still be seen adjacent to the house. He became expert in the art of colour print, and developed this technique so as to be able to cover large mural areas in schools and public buildings. He wrote a book entitled "Looking at painting" in 1947, and also published many articles. The couple were in Bardfield from 1941 - 1956. Marianne Straub. Born in Switzerland, she came to England for her technical studies in textiles. She lived in Bardfield from 1950 until the late 1960s in Trinity Cottage, High Street. She worked as a designer for machine production with a firm on Braintree, and was head of the weaving department of the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Kenneth and Diana Rowntree. These artists lived in Town House, High Street from 1924-1945. Walter Hoyle. Born in 1922, he first lived in the Parish in a stockman's cottage on Great Lodge Farm in 1952. In 1956 he moved to Rosemary Cottage in Great Saling, where he lived until 1974.Hoyle designed wallpapers commercially, works for publicity, and was interested in most methods of graphic reproduction. David Low. The cartoonist lived in Serjeant Bendlowes Cottage, Brook Street S. Clifford-Smith. He was born in 1906, and was a free lance designer of textiles and carpets. After the war he decided to live in the country, and lived in Bucks House in Bardfield from 1948-1952. He produced a large number of oil paintings based on Irish and Tuscan themes. He worked directly onto hardboard without preliminary drawings, and preferred the palette knife to the brush. George Chapman. Chapman was very taken with the problems and subject of the Rhonnda Valley. He arrived in Great Bardfield in 1948 because he found that he could buy a house cheaply at Vine Cottage in Walthams Cross. He lived at Crown House, Crown Street from 1957 - 1961. He acknowledged the great help he received from the artists already in the village when he arrived. He worked mainly oils and etching. Audrey Cruddas. Born in Johannesburg but educated in England. She lived in Walton House, High Street in the period 1950 - 1953. She was a designer of sets and costumes in the theatre, particularly for Shakespearean productions.
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