Oxford Postcards
Orwell Press produce and supply a range of Greetings Cards featuring artwork of Oxford, as well as other parts of the UK by well known UK based artists.
New Greetings Cards
By Rachel Clark
Daffodils
Greeting Card Code:
SG607
By Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh Orchard in Blossom|1880
Greeting Card Code:
SG606
By Claude Monet
The Artist's Garden at Giverny|1900
Greeting Card Code:
SG605
By Camille Pissarro
Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich|1871
Greeting Card Code:
SG604
By Fred Cuming
Bullfinches
Greeting Card Code:
SG603
By Fred Cuming
Ringed Plover and Chicks
Greeting Card Code:
SG602
By Jozef Mehoffer
May Sun|1911
Greeting Card Code:
SG601
By Spencer Frederick Gore
View from a Window
Greeting Card Code:
SG600
By Spencer Frederick Gore
Harold Gilman's House at Letchworth
Greeting Card Code:
SG599
By Spencer Frederick Gore
Game of Tennis
Greeting Card Code:
SG598
Featured Artists
Ditz
Austrian artist Ditz paints house pets and farm animals, often in domestic settings or grouped together. Her distinctive style has evolved over time to include highly detailed, quirky, small-scale images.
John Northcote Nash
John Northcote Nash was the younger brother of surrealist landscape artist Paul Nash.
Nash never received any formal art training. However, his elder brother Paul, who had studied at the Slade School of Art, encouraged him to develop his skills. A joint exhibition with Paul in 1913 was successful, and John was invited to become a founder-member of the London Group in 1914. From 1916 to 1918, Nash volunteered with the Artists Rifles in the First World War. At his brother’s recommendation, he became an official war artist. After the war He became a teacher, taking a position at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford from 1924 to 1929. In 1929, he bought a summer cottage in Essex, where he would turn his efforts to painting picturesque East Anglian landscapes.
Vanessa Bell
Vanessa Bell was an English painter, member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf. In 1904, Vanessa and her siblings moved to Bloomsbury, where they met and began socialising with the artists, writers and intellectuals who would become known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1907, she married fellow Bloomsbury member Clive Bell. Vanessa, Clive, the painter Duncan Grant and the writer David Garnett moved to the Sussex countryside shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, and settled at Charleston Farmhouse near Firle. In 1912, alongside Picasso and Matisse, Bell exhibited her work in the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition at the Grafton Galleries, London.
August Macke
August Macke was a German Expressionist painter and one of the leading members of the group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). Macke studied at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1904 to 1906. During his first trip to Paris in 1907 he was profoundly influenced by the work of the Impressionist painters. In 1909 Macke again visted Paris and on this
trip discovered the work of Henri Matisse and the other Fauve artists. This convinced Macke to use brighter, less-naturalistic colours, applied in broad brushstrokes. In 1911 Macke joined Der Blaue Reiter, which had been founded by Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky. In 1912 Macke met the French painter Robert Delaunay, who worked in a colourful Cubistinfluenced style. Subsequently, Macke introduced a Cubist style into his own paintings.
