This view is not remarkably different today (though there are of course more cars). The island is known as the ‘Chiswick Eyot’, and was historically used to grow willow, which was pollarded to provide withies for basket making.
Ravilious shared a flat a little way along the river with his wife, Tirzah, when they weren’t residing at Great Bardfield.
Eric Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was an exceptional watercolourist, wood engraver and designer. He grew up in the shadow of the Sussex Downs in the coastal town of Eastbourne, the surrounding landscape of which heavily influenced many of his best known works. His instantly recognisable style, palette and choice of subject have an almost universal appeal, a blend which has increased in popularity with the passing of time.













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