ERIC RAVILIOUS

The Westbury Horse

Eric Ravilious was an English painter and designer. He

began his artistic life as a muralist and worked from 1924 until this death in 1942. Ravilious was an comissioned as an official war artist during the second world war where he died during service.

Ravilious often painted water-colour landscapes, focusing on the relationship between the modern world and the English landscape, in a style that was both formal and yet deeply felt.





Train Landscape

 




Train Landscape and The Westbury Horse are two great examples of Ravilious water-colour paintings.