Familiar Visions: Eric & James Ravilious, Father & Son
Towner, Eastbourne, until 5 September
Ravilious Woodcuts
Charleston Farmhouse, until 30 August
Everyone, but everyone, has heard of Charleston, the East Sussex farmhouse with the beautiful walled garden transformed by the decorative geniuses of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant into a bijou Bloomsbury-on-the-Downs. But few people know about Furlongs, a couple of miles across the fields, the decidedly unpicturesque flint-built cottage where from 1933 the designer Peggy Angus presided over a rather more basic bohemian establishment, visited regularly by Eric Ravilious.
That the two artistic camps had nothing in common is immediately obvious from a pair of Ravilious watercolours in the Towner’s new exhibition Familiar Visions: Eric & James Ravilious, Father & Son.
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