Today we looked at a flat that one of us wants to move to and the other doesn't. I dont even want to talk about it. But it was worth the six hours in the car to have my second sea experience of the year.
This was followed by a visit to the wonderful Towner
The exhibition we want to see is 'Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship'. Initally a little overwhelming, I soon setlle in to and appreciate the painintgs, ceramics and fabrics but not the sexual exploits of the over entitled and possibly misogynistic but very likeable non the less Eric R.
This exhibition, coincides with the 75th anniversary of the untimly and sad death of Eric R. It explores the significant relationships and working collaborations between Ravilious and an important group of friends and affiliates, including Paul and John Nash, Enid Marx, Barnett Freedman, Tirzah Garwood, Edward Bawden, Thomas Hennell, Douglas Percy Bliss, Peggy Angus, Helen Binyon, and Diana Low.
The exhibition includes many of Ravilious’ key works shown alongside both well-known and less seen works by his contemporaries, including work by each artist that has never before been exhibited publicly, and focuses chronologically on key moments when the work and careers of these artists coincided, overlapped or was particularly pertinent to the others, such as their time at the Royal College of Art, the 1927 St George’s exhibition, their time spent at Furlongs and Newhaven in Sussex, and their various roles in the Second World War.
The exhibition represents the wide range of media in which the artists worked, from watercolours to woodcuts, lithographic prints, book jackets and illustrations, patterned papers, and wallpaper and fabric design.
Read more here
I love Eric R's later war time work which I find reminiscent of Stanley Spencer.
Here are more paintings to view
Next to the cafe for tea with the view of the tennis courts from the balcony 
And here is a view from one of the many traffic jams on the way home!
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