Eastern Daily Press - London Diary

Delighted to have the following review from Ian Collins in the Eastern Daily Press this month.  Ian writes a regular column for the paper - The London Diary - and has just written and had published a fascinating biography of British abstract artist John McLean. For further details see: www.lundhumphries.com.

Stella Loves - Sunday Telegraph

As featured in the Sunday Telegraph's - Stella Magazine!

And the answers are...

Here are the answers to our Ravilious challange. Thanks to everyone who entered - winners will be notified this week.

1. Cement Works 2
2. Wiltshire Landscape
3. The Waterwheel
4. Caravans
5. The Westbury Horse
6. The Cerne Abbas Giant
7. Downs in Winter
8. Chalk Paths
9. Interior at Furlongs

Can you handle the Ravilious challenge...

Rhapsodic about Ravilious?

To mark the publication of Ravilious in Pictures: Sussex and the Downs we have devised a cunning picture competition to identify the true Ravilious aficionado.  Identify the paintings from the details above and email your answers to info@themainstonepress.com by 1 December. The first five people drawn from the hat with the correct answers will receive a copy of the book signed by the author.

Eric Ravilious - Chalk hill figures, Cement works, Sussex and the Downs

Who was Mr Humphreys? Where was Furlongs? What was concealed behind a walled garden in Firle? What's 'Junking' and how exactly did the artist tear his trousers in Dorset? All will be revealed shortly...

Ravilious in Pictures: Sussex and the Downs by James Russell - available from the Mainstone Press on Monday 23 November.

Coming Soon...

We are working on the first in a series of books about the watercolours of Eric Ravilious. Ravilious in Pictures: Sussex and the Downs will feature 20 downland paintings with accompanying essays by James Russell.

The book will be launched at a number of venues in December starting with a Ravilious evening at the St Bride Printing Library in London on December 2.

Further details to follow.

A Walk along High Street

The Towner Times, produced quarterly by The Friends of The Towner, posted the following review of our recent Ravilious event in Eastbourne:

Eric Ravilious talk
Review by Frances Lloyd OBE
Winter Garden Gold Room, Eastbourne
Tuesday 7th April 7.30 pm

WITH TOWNER HOUSING the largest collection of his work in the world and the fact that he was an Eastbourne man, Eric Ravilious is always popular. He proved a big draw when the Friends recently welcomed writer and historian, James Russell to the Gold Room in the Winter Garden to share his knowledge about the shops featured in Ravilious’ seminal book, High Street.

The book, published 70 years ago, featured lithographs of 24 high street shops of the late 1930s and James Russell has been on a quest to identify and locate the shops – all real places but, in many cases, offering only tantalising clues as to their name or location. Only 2000 copies of the book were printed and what is left of remaining copies are much sought after, particularly as the lithographic plates were destroyed during the Blitz. Now, the Mainstone Press of Norwich has published a new limited edition entitled The Story of High Street, which reveals James Russell’s findings.

Lecturer and authority on Ravilious, Dr Alan Powers placed the book in historical context, sharing new and significant insights into its conception, production and publication. Two other experts, Christopher Whittick – the Ravilious archivist at East Sussex Record Office – and Tim Mainstone of Mainstone Press, also made contributions to this engrossing evening.

■ Go to www.the mainstonepress.com for more about The Story of High Street