Mike attended the pre-view night of the forthcoming Turner exhibition at our local ‘The Higgins Bedford’ museum and gallery. For the first time, nine of the Higgins’ collection of watercolours by JMW Turner are on display, along with a selection of other watercolours by artists who influenced him, were his contemporaries and who followed in his footsteps. The [...]
Mike (Cryer), his son Sam and friend Jason Pinny recently had an exciting opportunity to look at the Edward Bawden collection at The Higgins (http://www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk) in Bedford. Prompted by Mike and Sam developing an interest in linocutting (see previous blogs), Sam asked The Higgins Bedford if we might be allowed a private viewing. Bawden donated [...]
Mike, our MD, went to a lecture last week entitled Bawden’s Britain. Mike is a big fan of Edward Bawden and other British artists of that period such as Eric Ravillious, Clare Leighton and (slightly later) John Piper. We are lucky in Bedford in having a collection of over 3,000 pieces of Bawden’s work, bequeathed [...]