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
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York. After leaving high school he studied at the New York School of Art. In 1906 he visited Paris and became influenced by the impressionists. In 1910 Hopper returned to New York and in the following years painted some of his most recognisable paintings. In 1923 he married Josephine. Although they lived in New York they spent much of their time and most of their summers in Massachusetts where he painted the architecture and the landscapes in and
around Cape Cod.
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.
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.
