Tirzah Garwood by Lotte Crawford

Tirzah Garwood excelled in marbling, wood-engraving, collage and a style of painting which fused English romanticism with her domestic life.

Marriage to the artist Eric Ravilious, and motherhood curtailed her artistic ambitions but not her imagination: she found creative expression and commercial success with intricately patterned papers created on the kitchen table and in the bathtub.

In Garwood's early wood-engraving and later paintings dolls houses, train journeys and shop fronts are infused with her acerbic wit. Overshadowed by her husband's success, this book celebrates the story of Tirzah Garwood as an artist in her own right.

This compact book is published by Eiderdown books, a publisher specialising raising the profile of women artists. Written by Lotte Crawford, an art historian and Senior Lecturer. Her research examines contributions by women artists within the histories of modernism, pattern and textiles.