Description: The Recent Works of Anthea Richards
oxford (1365) etching (440) mythology (269) barbie (244) lino (149) greek myths (5) anthea davey (1) anthea horn (1) anthea richards (1) john newark (1)
Exhibition
When I was 9 years old my grandfather came to live with us. He was an artist and carpenter who had taught life drawing. He gave me some oil paints, and showed me how to use them and how I could make an image without an outline. I wanted to be an artist!
At 11 years old, I was sent to Sidcot, a Quaker boarding school in Somerset. The school had a very good art reputation and the art master during my first two years was John Newark. As well as drawing and painting we were taught linocut printing. I loved the print technique of building up images in layers. In 1954, James Bradley, a friend and devotee of Victor Pasmore, joined the staff as the art master and transformed our art education with Victor Pasmore's Basic Design Course. I loved all of the processes