Tirzah Garwood-Ravilious

ARTIST

Garwood-Ravilious, Tirzah

1908 – 1951

Eileen ‘Tirzah’ Garwood attended Eastbourne School of Art (1925’28), where she was taught by Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) whom she married in 1930.

She first exhibited in 1927, at the Redfern Gallery, and an early woodcut shown at the 1927 SWE exhibition received significant praise in The Times. Such was the originality of her printmaking that she exerted an influence over Ravilious’ own wood engravings. She was also commissioned by the BBC in 1928 to illustrate Granville Bantock’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, and made whimsical but exacting observational pictures that were popular with children and exhibited by the Society for Education in Art.

While recovering from emergency mastectomy surgery in 1942 she wrote her autobiography, Long Live Great Bardfield & Love to You All (published posthumously in 2012). After Ravilious’ death that same year, Garwood remained in Essex until her remarriage in 1946. She was again diagnosed with cancer in 1948 and died in 1951. In 1952, a memorial exhibition was held at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.

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Tirzah Garwood-Ravilious

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Garwood-Ravilious, Tirzah

1908 – 1951

Eileen ‘Tirzah’ Garwood attended Eastbourne School of Art (1925’28), where she was taught by Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) whom she married in 1930.

She first exhibited in 1927, at the Redfern Gallery, and an early woodcut shown at the 1927 SWE exhibition received significant praise in The Times. Such was the originality of her printmaking that she exerted an influence over Ravilious’ own wood engravings. She was also commissioned by the BBC in 1928 to illustrate Granville Bantock’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, and made whimsical but exacting observational pictures that were popular with children and exhibited by the Society for Education in Art.

While recovering from emergency mastectomy surgery in 1942 she wrote her autobiography, Long Live Great Bardfield & Love to You All (published posthumously in 2012). After Ravilious’ death that same year, Garwood remained in Essex until her remarriage in 1946. She was again diagnosed with cancer in 1948 and died in 1951. In 1952, a memorial exhibition was held at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.

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ARTWORK FOR SALE

Tirzah Garwood-Ravilious (1908 - 1951)
The Crocodile
£2,250
Tirzah Garwood-Ravilious (1908 - 1951)
The Dog Show, 1929
£2,500

ARCHIVED WORKS

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Tirzah Garwood-Ravilious (1908 - 1951)
Background to Toy Train, 1950
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Tirzah Garwood-Ravilious (1908 - 1951)
Daren, Baker’s Shop, 1945-46
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Tirzah Garwood-Ravilious (1908 - 1951)
Vegetable Garden, circa 1933
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Tirzah Garwood-Ravilious (1908 - 1951)
House at Great Bardfield, 1945