Peyton Skipwith revels in this summer’s bonanza of exhibitions and books dedicated to the innovative graphic designer, book illustrator and printmaker
EDWARD BAWDEN is breaking out all over the country this summer. dulwich Picture Gallery and the Fry art Gallery in Saffron Walden, Essex, have major surveys of his work, each with an accompanying book; the V&a Museum is displaying his mural The English Pub from the SS Oronsay; his late self-portrait is included in ‘about Face’ at rugby art Gallery; ‘Bawden’s Beasts’ is at The Higgins Bedford; and Mainstone Press’s Are You Sitting Comfortably?, detailing his 100 plus bookjackets, has just hit the bookshops. Illustration, illumination and calligraphy were important ingredients in Bawden gaining his scholarship to the royal College of art (rCa) in 1922, and formed a continuous strand throughout his work as a designer and an illustrator for the next 65 years.
Bawden (1903–89) was a man of extraordinary personal modesty, but he had an unshakeable belief in the integrity of his work, be it a vignette for a cookery book, a London Transport poster, a watercolour of the Essex countryside, a portrait for the war artists advisory Committee or his 40ft-high mural for the Festival of Britain. He was a designer-craftsman, as well as an artist-printmaker.
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Kitchen garden cook - Apples
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The original Mr Rochester
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Get it write
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'Sloes hath ben my food'
A possible paint for the Picts and a definite culprit in tea fraud, the cheek-suckingly sour sloe's spiritual home is indisputably in gin, says John Wright
Souvenirs of greatness
FOR many years, some large boxes have been stored and forgotten in the dark recesses of the garage. Unpacked last week, the contents turned out to be pots: some, perhaps, nearing a century old—dense terracotta, of interesting provenance.
Plants for plants' sake
The garden at Hergest Croft, Herefordshire The home of Edward Banks The Banks family is synonymous with an extraordinary collection of trees and shrubs, many of which are presents from distinguished friends, garnered over two centuries. Be prepared to be amazed, says Charles Quest-Ritson
Capturing the castle
Seventy years after Christian Dior’s last fashion show in Scotland, the brand returned under creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri for a celebratory event honouring local craftsmanship, the beauty of the land and the Auld Alliance, explains Kim Parker
Nature's own cathedral
Our tallest native tree 'most lovely of all', the stately beech creates a shaded environment that few plants can survive. John Lewis-Stempel ventures into the enchanted woods
All that money could buy
A new book explores the lost riches of London's grand houses. Its author, Steven Brindle, looks at the residences of plutocrats built by the nouveaux riches of the late-Victorian and Edwardian ages
In with the old
Diamonds are meant to sparkle in candlelight, but many now gather dust in jewellery boxes. To wear them today, we may need to reimagine them, as Hetty Lintell discovers with her grandmother's jewellery
