Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) is now one of the most popular artists of his period.  He was a painter of watercolours and murals, a book illustrator in wood engraving and lithography, and a designer of transfer-ware pottery.  He applied a dry and precise style of working to imaginative and romantic subject matter form the world around him.  From 1940 he was an Official War Artist, painting memorable pictures of ships, aircraft and coastal defences, until his tragic death in a flying accident off Iceland in 1942.  Enter the exhibition >>