Long Live Great Bardfield

Liss Llewellyn is delighted to present our latest online exhibition: Long Live Great Bardfield.

This exhibition shines a light on the Great Bardfield group: a community of artists who lived in and around the village of Great Bardfield in North West Essex. It includes works by many of the principal figures, such as Edward Bawden, Kenneth Rowntree, Charles Mahoney, Eric Ravilious, and Tirzah Garwood. Indeed, the title of the exhibition comes from Tirzah Garwood’s autobiography, Long Live Great Bardfield, which recounts in amusing detail the activities of the group. One such anecdote explains Mahoney’s fascination with sketching sunflowers that Bawden planted by the outhouses at Brick House. Garwood recalls that Mahoney ‘made drawings from the top of a ladder, (and) one rather resented his continual presence outside the lavatory.’

This online show runs in parallel with our physical exhibition of Mahoney’s work – Charles Mahoney: The Pleasures of Life – at the Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden. The exhibition runs until the 27th October, 2024, and is the most significant show dedicated to the artist since a touring exhibition at The Fine Art Society in 1999 (also organised by Liss Llewellyn).

Works FEATURED in this Exhibition

Edward Bawden (1903 - 1989)
The Jetty Beach
Private
Tirzah Garwood-Ravilious (1908 - 1951)
House at Great Bardfield, 1945
Private
Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)
Cottage in Sussex, c. 1934
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The High Street, Great Bardfield, circa 1930
£2,500
Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)
Tirzah on a cockerel, the original block, 1931
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study of Roses
£1,375
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Greenhouse Interior, 1930’s
Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)
Butterball Crab Apples on a plate, design for wall paper, circa 1924
Phyllis Dodd (1899 - 1995)
Basil Taylor, 1924
£1,800
Sold
Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997)
Flint Wall & Coffee Pot at Furlongs, 1940’s
Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997)
Train Signal at Clare, Suffolk, 1940s
Sold
Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997)
Still life with Water Jug at Levisham, 1950s
Sold
Brick House, Great Bardfield c. 1940
Sold
John Aldridge (1905 - 1983)
Garden Open Today, circa 1950
Narcissi and ferns in a vase, circa 1950
£560
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Studies of a Sunflower Plant, late 1950’s
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Willow Grove, Great Bardfield, Spring 1933
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Still life with Snakes and Ladders board