Walter Hoyle - (Click on Picture for a larger image)

Trained at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art, where he was strongly influenced as an artist in watercolour and printmaking by Edward Bawden, who, recognising his talent, invited him to assist in a mural commission for the 1951 Festival of Britain on the South Bank in London. He lived in Great Bardfield for twenty-two years, and taught printmaking at the Cambridge School of Art 1964-1985

Enna, Sicily

Hoyle, invited by his mentor Bawden to share a holiday in Sicily, subsequently wrote of these three weeks in To Sicily with Edward Bawden (Previous Parrot Press, 1998):"Edward asked to see my watercolours. He looked very carefully and quizzed me about them, and in general was complimentary and encouraging. I felt I had passed some kind of examination". Stylistic similarity with Bawden's work can be seen.

Great Lodge Farm Cottage, Great Bardfield

Hoyle was to write subsequently about living in Great Bardfield, where he observed that “to live in the middle of a working farm, surrounded by a cultivated landscape, half a mile from the road, with no sounds except that of a farm tractor, cattle and birds: it was I thought a special place. The years spent in Great Bardfield were the best". This work seems to convey the same feeling.

King's College, Cambridge

From 1964 to 1985, Walter Hoyle taught printmaking at Cambridge School of Art