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 Pam Grimmond
The Bee Houses
Greeting Card Code:
SG619
By Pam Grimmond
The Bee Garden
Greeting Card Code:
SG618
By Pam Grimmond
Flight
Greeting Card Code:
SG617
By Martin Truefitt-Baker
Golden Morning Hares
Greeting Card Code:
SG616
By Martin Truefitt-Baker
Bluebell Wood Fox
Greeting Card Code:
SG615
By Vincent Van Gogh
The Garden at Arles|1888
Greeting Card Code:
SG614
By Stanhope Alexander Forbes
The Pond|1930
Greeting Card Code:
SG613
By Stanhope Alexander Forbes
Children on the Beach, St. Ives|1886
Greeting Card Code:
SG612
By George Henry
Sussex Landscape with Cattle|1930
Greeting Card Code:
SG611
By Edward Arthur Walton
Seaside Cottages with Dovecot
Greeting Card Code:
SG610
Featured Artists
Bernard Cheese
Bernard Cheese studied at Beckenham School of Art and, following four years in the army, studied in London at the Royal College of Art from 1947, where his teachers included Edward Bawden. He taught printmaking at St Martin’s School of Art from 1950 to 1968, then at Goldsmiths College from 1970 to 1978, and Central School of Art and Design (1980–89). He designed posters for London Transport. He also did commissions for Guinness and the BBC. In the 1950s he moved to the artists’ community of Great Bardfield in Essex. His works are in the collections of the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Royal Collection, the British Government Art Collection, the New York Museum of Modern Art, and the New York Public Library.
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.
Edward Bawden
Edward Bawden was a successful and prolific English printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator and painter. He studied at the School of Art in Cambridge (1919-22) and at the Design School of the Royal College of Art (1922-6), where he was a contemporary of Eric Ravilious and was taught by Paul Nash.
Laura Knight
Dame Laura knight was an English landscape and figurative painter. Laura studied at Nottingham School of Art in 1900, where she met Harold Knight. After marrying in 1903, they joined an artists' colony at Staithes, Yorkshire, before moving in 1908 to Newlyn, Cornwall. In 1936 she became only the second woman elected to full membership of the Royal Academy. Her large retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1965 was the first for a woman. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for women artists. She was also greatly interested in, and inspired by, marginalised communities and individuals, including Romani people and circus performers.
