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
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder is a Scottish painter and printmaker. She is the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art and then in 1962 began teaching there and continued until her retirement in 1986. Blackadder works in a variety of media such as oil paints, watercolour, drawing and printmaking. She paints portraits and landscapes but her later work contains mainly flowers and her cats. Regular trips abroad, particularly to Japan, helped stimulate her interest in colour and pattern. Her work can be seen at the Tate Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and has appeared on a series of Royal Mail stamps.
Cedric Morris
Cedric Morris was a British artist, art teacher and plantsman. He was born in Swansea in South Wales, but worked mainly in East Anglia. Cedric grew up in Sketty, South Wales. On leaving school he spent his younger years intermittently abroad, regularly travelling across Europe and North Africa, whilst renting studios in
Cornwall, Paris and London. In the 1930s, Cedric and his partner, the artist Arthur Lett-Haines made Suffolk their permanent base, moving to Pound Farm in Higham where his garden became much admired. Morris developed a post-Impressionist style for portraits, landscapes and highly decorative style for still-life.
Harold Harvey
Harold Harvey was a Newlyn School painter who painted scenes of Cornish fishermen, farmers and miners and Cornish landscapes. He was born in Penzance and trained at the Penzance School of Arts and the Académie Julian in Paris. After completing his schooling in Paris, Harvey returned to Penzance and began working as an artist. In 1911, Harvey married fellow artist Gertrude Bodinnar and they settled in Newlyn. Gertrude became an artist in her own right in a wide range of visual and textile arts. Harvey never achieved his due critical acclaim. However, he was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1898-1941 and held several one-man exhibitions in London, at the Mendoza Galleries, Barbizon House and the Leicester Galleries.
Tirzah Ravilious
Tirzah was born in Gillingham, Kent. After finishing school she attended the Eastbourne School of Art from 1925-1928. It was here that she met Eric Ravilious. In 1928 she moved to London and studied at the Central School of Art. Tirzah was a skilled wood engraver; She was commissioned to produce woodcuts for Kynoch Press and the BBC. Tirzah and Eric married in 1930. In 1931 they left London and moved to rural Essex where they started a family. She gave up her art to raise their children and to support Eric with his career. Thankfully Tirzah’s work is now starting to get the recognition it deserves.
