RAVILIOUS │ Dulwich Picture Gallery, London → 31 August 2015

Wet Afternoon (1928). Photo: Dulwich Picture Gallery

November 5th, 1933

Caravans, 1936. The Fry Art Gallery

The Waterwheel, 1938

Tea at Furlongs, 1939. The Fry Art Gallery

The Westbury Horse, 1939. Photograph: Private Collection, courtesy Towner, Eastbourne

Interior at Furlongs, 1939. Photograph: Private collection

Observer’s Post, 1939. Photograph: © Trustees of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford

Dangerous Work at Low Tide, 1940

Bomb Diffusing Equipment, c.1940. Private Collection

Train Landscape, 1940. Photograph: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections

Hurricane in Flight, c1942.

“…a jý fṛm stāt t finiš (Ɖ Teḷgraf)

…ɖ Sŭrā v Susx” Lwra Cumñ (Ɖ Obzrvr)

Fṛm ɖ stāt w si an ātist fîndñ jý in ɖ unxpctd (Nansi Duṛnt, Ɖ Tîmz)

Ɖ frst mêjr xibišn t srve wōtrculrz bî seḷbretd Britiš ātist Eric Rviłs (1903–42). Wel nôn fr hiz îconic wrc fr Wejwŭd, Rviłs z wîdli cnsidrd wn v ɖ ci figrz in mid-20^ʈ senčri Britiš dzîn, bt h wz olso wn v ɖ fînist wōtrcuḷrists v ɖ senčri.

Hiz astonišñli pṛlific c̣rir spand pīs n wor. Wɖ ɖ âtbrec v Wrldwor II, Rviłs wz asînd t ɖ Royl Nêvi az wn v ɖ frst Ofišl Worātists, fîndñ ny wez t capčr n prizrv ɖ flītñ recwd v pasñ tîm.

Ovr 80 wōtrculrz wl b on dsple – includñ fems wrcs lîc Trênlandscep n Westbri Hws, az wel az rerli sīn wrcs fṛm prîvt c̣lẋnz pṛvîdñ an inspîrñ lc at hiz wrc btwn ɖ mid-1920z n hiz deʈ in 1942. Sd t b inspîrd bî ɖ filmz v Alfrid Hičcoc, Rviłs’z imijz rerli cnten figrz n yt hiz šadôi intirı̣rz n strenj pspctvz ofn criet a sens v hymn prezns.

Olɖo h dîd at ɖ êj v onli 39, Rviłs wz ljli rsponsbl fr ɖ rvîvl v Ñgliš wōtrculrpêntñ. H stātd ât undr ɖ tyṭlij v Pwl Naš at ɖ Royl Colij v Āt n, olɖo h wz hyjli vrṣtîl, it wz pêntñ ɖt Rviłs sw az hiz tru vcešn; it wz ɖs wrc ɖt h xibitd, n h cerd dīpli abt its rspšn bî felo ātists lîc Mur n Jon Pîpr.

Ɖ xibišn z kretd bî Jêmz Rusl, a līdñ spešlist on Eric Rviłs, huz bcs on ɖ ātist includ ɖ popylr siriz Rviłs in Picčrs (2009-12).”