Fine Art Greetings Cards
Orwell Press Art Publishing produce a range of Fine Art Greetings Cards, featuring work by local, well known and established UK based artists, whose art highlights the natural beauty of Suffolk, Sussex, Oxford, Cambridge and London, as well as a more general selection of artworks.
New Greetings Cards
By Laura Knight
Stack Building, Malvern Hills
Greeting Card Code:
SG555
By Cedric Morris
Spring Flowers|1931
Greeting Card Code:
SG554
By Edward Bawden
Off to Windmill Hill
Greeting Card Code:
SG553
By Lucian Freud
Daffodils and Celery|1946
Greeting Card Code:
SG552
By Nina Hamnett
Still Life Flowers and Pallette|c.1921
Greeting Card Code:
SG551
By Nina Hamnett
Portrait of a Woman
Greeting Card Code:
SG550
By Ditz
Walking the Dog
Greeting Card Code:
SG549
By Ditz
The Carpet-Cat
Greeting Card Code:
SG548
By Debbie Urquhart
You Promised
Greeting Card Code:
SG547
By Eric Ravilious
Wiltshire Landscape|1937
Greeting Card Code:
SG545
Featured Artists
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York. After leaving high school he studied at the New York School of Art. In 1906 he visited Paris and became influenced by the impressionists. In 1910 Hopper returned to New York and in the following years painted some of his most recognisable paintings. In 1923 he married Josephine. Although they lived in New York they spent much of their time and most of their summers in Massachusetts where he painted the architecture and the landscapes in and
around Cape Cod.
Laura Knight
Dame Laura knight was an English landscape and figurative painter. Laura studied at Nottingham School of Art in 1900, where she met Harold Knight. After marrying in 1903, they joined an artists' colony at Staithes, Yorkshire, before moving in 1908 to Newlyn, Cornwall. In 1936 she became only the second woman elected to full membership of the Royal Academy. Her large retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1965 was the first for a woman. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for women artists. She was also greatly interested in, and inspired by, marginalised communities and individuals, including Romani people and circus performers.
Heywood Hardy
Heywood Hardy was a British painter. Born in Chichester, Sussex. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Upon returning to England, Hardy’s work became popular and he received many commissions from the estates of his wealthy patrons. He went on to become a member of The Royal Society of Painters and Etchers, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and The Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He also worked as an illustrator for several publications, including The Illustrated London News and The Graphic Magazine. In the last years of his life, Hardy made a controversial shift from sensitive animal subjects to biblical scenes of Christ walking in the Sussex countryside. Today, his works are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Manchester City Art Gallery, and the Bury Art Museum, among others.
Bernard Cheese
Bernard Cheese studied at Beckenham School of Art and, following four years in the army, studied in London at the Royal College of Art from 1947, where his teachers included Edward Bawden. He taught printmaking at St Martin’s School of Art from 1950 to 1968, then at Goldsmiths College from 1970 to 1978, and Central School of Art and Design (1980–89). He designed posters for London Transport. He also did commissions for Guinness and the BBC. In the 1950s he moved to the artists’ community of Great Bardfield in Essex. His works are in the collections of the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Royal Collection, the British Government Art Collection, the New York Museum of Modern Art, and the New York Public Library.
