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Ravilious
@Ravilious1942
A tribute to the work of British artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) & with it so many other things in the natural world around us.
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    Sep 2, 2025
    Eric Ravilious was killed #OTD in 1942 when the aircraft he was in during a search & rescue mission off Iceland failed to return. From the countryside to war, his depiction of Britain in the 30s & early years of #WW2 remain an incredible legacy, decades after his death.
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    Dec 13, 2020
    I love this winter landscape by artist Vanessa Bowman. I heard the owl in the woods near me the other evening. The little things the natural worlds gives us, that make us smile.
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    Sep 2, 2023
    Eric Ravilious was killed #OTD in 1942 when the aircraft he was in during a search & rescue mission off Iceland failed to return. From the countryside to war, his depiction of Britain in the 30s & early years of #WW2 remain an incredible legacy, over eighty years after his death.
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    Jan 4, 2021
    Anxious news tonight, and all our journeys continue. The work of Eric Ravilious will still be here for you every day, I promise. Believe me, it’s a little light in the dark for me, which I love to share with you all. Take care, friends.
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    Feb 2, 2021
    Woken up to snow again in Yorkshire, so a good excuse for that wondrous 1930s Ravilious wood-engraving of a snow scene.
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    Sep 2, 2024
    Eric Ravilious was killed in action #OTD in 1942 after the aircraft he went up in during a search & rescue mission off Iceland failed to return. From the countryside to war, his depiction of Britain in the 30s & early years of #WW2 are an incredible legacy, one which lives on.
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    Aug 30, 2020
    Chalk Paths, Eric Ravilious, 1935. It depicts an area of the South Downs near Lewes in East #Sussex, now @sdnpa. The original artwork is in a private collection.
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    Ravilious
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    Sep 2, 2022
    Eric Ravilious was killed #OTD in 1942 when the aircraft he was in during a search & rescue mission off Iceland failed to return. From the countryside to war, his depiction of Britain in the 30s & early years of #WW2 remain an incredible legacy, eighty years after his death.
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    Jan 13, 2022
    We went past 30K followers last night: staggering, amazing, humbling. I started this as a personal way to catalogue Eric Ravilious’ work but gosh hasn’t it been wonderful to find so many of you who take great joy from his legacy too; beauty in times of darkness. Thank you all!
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    Ravilious
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    Sep 2, 2020
    Eric Ravilious was killed in action #OTD in 1942 when the aircraft he went up in during a search & rescue mission off Iceland failed to return. From the countryside to war, his depiction of Britain in the 30s & early years of #WW2 are an incredible legacy, one which lives on.
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    May 7, 2022
    Life in a Boarding House, Eric Ravilious, 1930. A now lost mural: one of several painted by Ravilious and Edward Bawden at Morley College in #London. It was destroyed in the Blitz during #WW2.
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    Mar 27, 2020
    Chalk Paths, Eric Ravilious, 1935. It depicts an area of the South Downs in East #Sussex, now @sdnpa. The original artwork is in a private collection.
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    Jun 6, 2020
    Train Landscape, Eric Ravilious, 1939. This was Ravilious’ view back towards the Westbury Horse depicted in another of his paintings. #Wiltshire. The original artwork is in the collection of @AbdnArtMuseums.
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    Ravilious
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    Dec 16, 2020
    Chalk Paths, Eric Ravilious, 1935. It depicts an area of the South Downs near Lewes in East #Sussex, now @sdnpa. The original artwork is in a private collection.