Today is #SussexDay - Ravilious was born in London but Sussex was his heartland and his work depicts that essential essence of the landscape of Sussex and the Downs.
Bathing Machines, Eric Ravilious, 1938. This is one of a series depicting Aldeburgh beach in #Suffolk. The original artwork is in the collection of @TownerGallery. (The Hen is a vending machine!)
I've been loving the glorious flood of David Hockney paintings. Here's one of his collages: Brooklyn Bridge, capturing the essence of that extraordinary structure...
Sad to hear the passing of David Hockney. Here is a painting by Peter Brook with a nod to his fellow Yorkshire-born artist 🎨
‘David Hockney Arriving in Bradford to Spend Christmas with his Mother and Design the Cover of the Telephone Directory F.O.C.’
Shocked to hear David Hockney has died. His huge achievement was to make serious painting look effortless. He carried forward one of the most sustained investigations into vision, space and representation by any post-war artist. British art has lost a giant.
Sorry to hear of the death of the artist David Hockney. His self-portrait, aged 17 in 1954, hangs in the David Hockney Gallery at Cartwright Hall, Bradford, one of Yorkshire's less-well known galleries, but a gem.
#JuliaMargaretCameron
Julia Margaret Cameron: Innovative early female photographer born on this day in 1815. Her photograph of the great actress Ellen Terry.
'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to a puree.