Train carriage by Eric Ravilious

• 🎨 Eric Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator, and wood-engraver.
• 🏞️ He is renowned for his watercolours depicting English landscapes like the South Downs and Castle Hedingham with a modernist sensibility.
• 📚 Ravilious received scholarships to study art, became friends with Edward Bawden, and studied under Paul Nash.
• 👩‍🎨 He married Tirzah Garwood, also an artist and engraver, and they had three children.
• 🖌️ Ravilious worked on various commissions, including murals at Morley College and designs for Wedgwood ceramics.
• 🚢 He served as a war artist during WWII, producing paintings depicting naval scenes and coastal defenses.
• ✈️ Ravilious tragically died in 1942 while on a search mission during the war, and his body was never recovered.
• 🖼️ His works are now held in various collections and have been featured in exhibitions worldwide, including retrospectives at galleries like the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Towner Gallery.