Edward Bawden At Home: Life in Saffron Walden.

Edward Bawden At Home: Life in Saffron Walden.
Edward Bawden moved from Brick House in Great Bardfield, to 2 Park Lane, Saffron Walden in 1970. He lived in Saffron Walden until his death in 1989.
In 1973 Bawden made a large linocut of Audley End, a parade of technical ability of cutting straight lines.
These watercolours are from the mid-to-late 1970s are of the woodlands and follies around Audley End Estate. Sitting in the woodlands he could sketch in the morning and finish the painting at his studio at the top of his house.
In the latter half of the 1980s when Bawden was getting older, his world was getting smaller.
Illness had changed his world and his art from scenes of landscapes into a series of interior paintings of his home.
His muse, was the cat. originally named Nelson, HE was found to be a SHE and called Emma Nelson
In the living room of 2 Park Lane Saffron Walden, you can see the dresser full of studio pottery that Charlotte and Edward had collected.
And above the settee you can see Edward's monumental linocut of the Pagoda at Key
In this photograph you can see a different view of the sitting room.
The woodcuts on the wall by Paul Nash were The Bay 1923 and a series of woodcuts from the book of Genesis 1924
Where the John Norris Wood woodcut is was a Watercolour of a Harlequin by Eric Ravilious
On the wall here we can see a portrait of Bawden by Phyllis Dodd and in the corner you can see the valet mirror stand that Bawden later painted in a watercolour with a rose bud
In this room the wallpaper is designed by Edward Bawden & John Aldridge called ‘Grid and Cross Or Waffle. The wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. from 1933 from the Jew of Malta’ by Christopher Marlowe.
in this watercolour called ‘Cat among Pigeons’ you can see Emma nelson on the stairs on the right and the wallpaper is called wood pigeon printed by the curwen press in 1927 At the end of the hallway thanks to the photographs taken we can see he had a Chagall print.
Here is Bawden's printing press and a library. When he moved from Brick house charlotte had just died and Edward is said to have sold many of his books in grief. He spent the rest of his live buying those books back.
here we can see Bawden in the studio as a self portrait and a photograph of him in suite. In the watercolours from his studio we can see various paintings showing his tools and here is a watercolour of the finished linocut for Play With Me, a linocut the Fry Art Gallery have had turned into a cushion.
Here I can finish on the last linocut that Edward Bawden was working upon, a print of Poseidon.