Newly published for Summer 2010.
We are ever so pleased to write that we are now printing The Train by Claughton Pellew. His work so clearly fits with the other images we publish.
Perhaps best known as a wood engraver, Pellew did some wonderful watercolour work. The Train manages to canvas two kinds of ability: an accuracy of depiction which Pellew most often so skilfully managed in his wood engraving work, but also the skill to infuse his images with a romantic intensity akin to the type of intensity Ravilious managed to capture in his watercolours.
The Train is Pellew’s masterpiece. It is a twilight view of the embankment at Overstand in North East Norfolk, a view Pellew could see from the window of the house he occupied. A rare depiction in the artist’s oeuve of modern life, it is nevertheless an elegiac capturing of a peaceful scene, and one wherein the night train, with its row of lit-up windows, disturbs neither the shepherd nor his sheep.
The Train. Claughton Pellew. Price £220.00
We are also delighted to say that we are finally now printing the Cyril Power sporting images – four of them, including the beautiful, almost botanical, The Eight.
The Eight. Cyril Power. Price £175.00
And very much from the same Grosvenor School as Power, we have three new images from Ethel Spowers. The narrative content will appeal particularly to children here: children on swings, children protected by their parents, but it also appeals to the memories we all have of such times and such activities.
Swings. Ethel Spowers. Price £75.00
- Many more prints will be available in the autumn – in the meantime please keep visiting, and you can now follow us on Twitter, or download the Bookroom Art Press app from the App Store – just search for ‘Art Press’.