Editing Eric Ravilious (section)

== Career and marriage ==
Following this he began teaching part-time at the Eastbourne School of Art, and from 1930 taught (also part-time) at the Royal College of Art.<ref name="con11">Constable, 1982, p. 11.</ref> In the same year he married [[Tirzah Garwood|Eileen Lucy "Tirzah" Garwood]], also an artist and engraver, whom he met whilst her tutor at Eastbourne College of Art.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/30/eric-ravilious-painting-landscape-watercolour|title=Eric Ravilious: ups and Downs|last=Laity|first=Paul|date=29 April 2011|work=The Guardian|access-date=27 May 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="ODArt">{{cite book|editor=Ian Chilvers |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=1988|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Art|isbn=0-19-860476-9}}</ref> They had three children: John Ravilious (1935&ndash;2014); the photographer [[James Ravilious]] (1939&ndash;1999); and Anne Ullmann, née Ravilious (b. 1941), editor of books on her parents and their work.<ref name=":2">{{Cite ODNB |title=Garwood [married names Ravilious, Swanzy], Eileen Lucy [known as Tirzah] (1908–1951), wood engraver and artist |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-59241 |access-date=14 February 2024 |date=2016 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/59241 |language=en |last1=Russell |first1=James }}</ref>

In 1928 Ravilious, Bawden and [[Charles Mahoney (artist)|Charles Mahoney]] painted a series of murals at [[Morley College]] in south London on which they worked for a whole year.<ref name=bawden8/> Their work was described by J. M. Richards as "sharp in detail, clean in colour, with an odd humour in their marionette-like figures" and "a striking departure from the conventions of mural painting at that time", but was destroyed by bombing in 1941.<ref name=bawden8>{{cite book|first=J.M.|last=Richards|title=Edward Bawden|series=The Penguin Modern Painters|publisher=Penguin Books|location=Harmondsworth|year=1946|page=8}}</ref><ref name="Grdn"/>

Between 1930 and 1932 Ravilious and Garwood lived in [[Hammersmith]], west London, where there is a [[blue plaque]] on the wall of their house at the corner of Upper Mall and Weltje Road. The building looks out onto [[The Boat Race]] course, and the couple held bathing and boat-race parties.<ref name=":0" /> When Ravilious and Bawden graduated from the RCA they began exploring the Essex countryside in search of rural subjects to paint. Bawden rented Brick House in [[Great Bardfield]] as a base and when he married Charlotte Epton, a fellow RCA art student, his father bought it for him as a wedding present. Ravilious and Garwood lodged in Brick House with the Bawdens until 1934 when they purchased Bank House at [[Castle Hedingham]],<ref name="CLife"/> which is now also marked by a blue plaque. There were eventually several other [[Great Bardfield Artists]].

In 1933 Ravilious and Garwood painted murals at the [[Midland Hotel, Morecambe|Midland Hotel]] in [[Morecambe]].<ref name=con22 >Constable, 1982, p. 22.</ref> In November 1933, Ravilious held his first solo exhibition at the Zwemmer Gallery in London, titled "''An Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings''".<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pkWCDQAAQBAJ&q=zwemmer+gallery+ravilious&pg=PT86|title=Eric Ravilious: Memoir of an Artist|last=Binyon|first=Helen|date=30 June 2016|publisher=The Lutterworth Press|isbn=9780718844899|language=en}}</ref> Twenty of the 37 works displayed were sold.<ref name="CLife"/> During 1939, Ravilious painted a series of watercolours of chalk [[hill figures]] in the English landscape. The [[Leicester Galleries]] sold three of these paintings to British public collections, the [[Tate]], the [[Victoria & Albert Museum]] and [[Aberdeen Art Gallery]].<ref name="APowers">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-real-and-romantic-the-life-and-work-of-eric-ravilious|title=The real and romantic: the life and work of Eric Ravilious|date=14 July 2022 |author=Alan Powers|website=Art UK|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref>