Veteran arts documentary director Margy Kinmonth makes an excellent argument for elevating the status of watercolourist and etcher Eric Ravilious in this lovingly crafted biographical film. Her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anne Ullmann used to think that many of the 450 printing blocks carved by her father had been stolen or burned - Towner Eastbourne ...

Eighty years ago Eric Ravilious disappeared while on duty as an official war artist; he was part of a crew looking for a missing Lockheed Hudson aircraft. The fearless Ravilious had already seen ...

A 1940s proposal for a children’s picture book turned up a few months ago in forgotten files in London, after scholars had spent decades hunting for it as far away as Iceland. The illustrator Eric ...

David Oelman (the chairman of The Fry Art Gallery), Ella Ravilious (the curator of design and architecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum and granddaughter of the Eric Ravilious and Tirzah Garwood) ...

The granddaughter of war artist Eric Ravilious said she was "delighted" one of his works had been named as the world's best-loved railway artwork from the UK. Painted in 1940, Train Landscape shows ...

For many, whether followers of the game or not, the Wisden wood engraving sums up the quintessential Englishness of cricket - it's so familiar, you can hear the sound of ball on bat. To mark the ...

MetFilm Sales has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding the U.K., to filmmaker Margy Kinmonth’s feature documentary “Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War.” Written, directed and produced by Kinmonth, ...

LONDON — For much of his career Eric Ravilious was known principally for his wood engravings, book illustrations, murals and designs for Wedgwood ceramics. But, as the artist told his lover, the ...

One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on commission as Official War Artist in Iceland in 1942. His life is as compelling and enigmatic as his ...