Strange Strange World

This online exhibition explores the unexpected, dreamlike, and uncanny threads that run through British art of the 20th century. Works by John Armstrong reveal the quiet strangeness at the heart of his imagery — poised objects, theatrical spaces, and symbolic motifs that hover between reality and imagination. Alongside him, pieces by Eric Ravilious introduce a more subtle surrealism: familiar landscapes and interiors rendered with such clarity that they take on an otherworldly stillness.

Works FEATURED in this Exhibition

SKU: 11936
Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)
A Suicide, 1933
£1,700
SKU: 11897
Richard Swaby Platt (1928-2013)
Surrealist Seascape
£8,750
SKU: 11831
Marion Adnams (1898 - 1995)
Design for a Nautical Mural, 1930’s
£1,850
SKU: 11809
John Cecil Stephenson (1889 - 1965)
Ophelia 1944
£5,000
SKU: 11711
John Armstrong (1893 - 1973)
Washing Day, 1927
£38,500
SKU: 11256
Rachel Reckitt (1908 - 1995)
Flight, late 1960’s
£1,800
SKU: 11136
Rachel Reckitt (1908 - 1995)
Spanish Tower
£3,750
SKU: 11131
Rachel Reckitt (1908 - 1995)
Cubist Figure
£1,800
SKU: 10559
John Cecil Stephenson (1889 - 1965)
Abstraction, 1934
£50,000
SKU: 10452
John Banting (1902 - 1972)
Sylph Melody
£9,750
SKU: 10366
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Surreal Composition with Hand, Bouquet and Eyes in a Glass
£1,600
SKU: 10358
Rachel Reckitt (1908 - 1995)
How High the Heavens
£6,000
SKU: 10360
Rachel Reckitt (1908 - 1995)
Monolith, circa 1960
£1,500
SKU: 10248
Marion Adnams (1898 - 1995)
Study for Spring in the Cemetery, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, 1956
£6,750
SKU: 10090
Allan Milner (1910 - 1984)
Domestic Chores, 1940’s
£3,750
SKU: 10015
Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)
Venus, circa 1950
£1,500
SKU: 9993
Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)
Sunset over Milwaukee, 1966
£3,750
SKU: 9874
Valentine Dobree (1894 - 1974)
The Event (Tryptich), early 1960s
£9,000
SKU: 9855
John Armstrong (1893 - 1973)
The Peculiar Park Mural at Shell Centre, 1961
£1,800
SKU: 9853
John Armstrong (1893 - 1973)
The Peculiar Park, Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton, Surrey, 1961
£1,375
SKU: 9852
John Armstrong (1893 - 1973)
The Peculiar Park Mural at Shell Centre, 1961
£1,950
SKU: 9651
Rachel Reckitt (1908 - 1995)
Landscape in May
£7,500
SKU: 9652
Rachel Reckitt (1908 - 1995)
Towers and Helmets, 1960’s
£6,000
SKU: 9594
Gerald Leet (1913 - 1998)
Yellow and Pink Lilies on a window ledge overlooking the sea, mid 30’s
£9,750
SKU: 9158
John Tunnard (1900 - 1971)
Tunnel towards light, circa 1960
£850
SKU: 9151
John Tunnard (1900 - 1971)
Abstract form with eye, circa 1955
£1,200
SKU: 8977
John Tunnard (1900 - 1971)
Meteorite
£1,200
SKU: 8974
John Tunnard (1900 - 1971)
A Point on the Horizon Line
£3,850
SKU: 8066
David Evans (1929 - 1988)
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring
£2,500
SKU: 8065
David Evans (1929 - 1988)
An Evening Out; (The Magic Circle), 1960
£2,500
SKU: 7950
Peter Laszlo Peri (1899 - 1967)
Blitz, 1944
£195
SKU: 7276
Frederick Austin (1902 - 1990)
The Artist Dreaming
£3,750
SKU: 6466
Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997)
Di Venezia, 1960s
£8,500
SKU: 6335
Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)
Dusk, 1966
£14,750
Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)
To Everything There Is a Season, Psalms (BPL 670)
SKU: 5713
Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)
Resting, 1931
£475
SKU: 5292
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Three Women in a Vase, Handing out Flowers
£2,800
SKU: 5204
Victor Reinganum (1907 - 1995)
Three Muses, 1968
£3,000
SKU: 2855
John Cecil Stephenson (1889 - 1965)
Blue and yellow Figure circa 1946
£2,950
SKU: 2117
Raymond Sheppard (1913 - 1958)
Sea Forms, circa 1950
£2,150
SKU: 880
John Cecil Stephenson (1889 - 1965)
Tita, circa 1960
£22,000
SKU: 874
John Cecil Stephenson (1889 - 1965)
Three Graces, 1945
£9,500
SKU: 219
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Fleeing figures, mid 1920’s
£22,000
SKU: 223
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Children sleeping – illustration to a fable, mid 1920’s
£9,750