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Sheila Robinson(Click on Picture for a larger image)1925 - 1988
Born in Nottinghamshire, Sheila Robinson studied at the local Art School and then at the Royal College of Art where she came under the influence of Edward Bawden. An accomplished printmaker she developed to a high quality the cardboard-cut. On her marriage to Bernard Cheese she moved to Great Bardfield, where they worked on their own commissions and with Bawden. She brought up two children, undertook book illustration and regular work for the Post Office and BBC, before becoming a full-time lecturer in printmaking at the Royal College, after which she seriously curtailed her own work.
Bridge Street, Great Bardfield |
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Lithograph
1951
These were re-printed in 1991 by Linda Richardson. The original set was made in 1951, partly to met the requests of those living in the village for inexpensive works that they could afford to buy. The present day Great Bardfield has not changed externally as much as the interiors which Bawden depicted in his 1949 series depicted in the Penguin book "Life in an English Village".
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Brook Street, Great Bardfield |
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Lithograph
1951
These were re-printed in 1991 by Linda Richardson. The original set was made in 1951, partly to met the requests of those living in the village for inexpensive works that they could afford to buy. The present day Great Bardfield has not changed externally as much as the interiors which Bawden depicted in his 1949 series
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The Knife Grinder |
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Linocut
The itinerant knife grinder, whose stationary bike then became the power for the sharpening stones, was a familiar figure in the 1950s in Thaxted, Great Bardfield and Saffron Walden
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Trent Bridge, Nottingham |
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Watercolour
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