Editing Graham Sutherland (section)

===1930s===
[[File:Slag-ladles (Art.IWM ART LD 1773).jpg|thumb|upright|''Slag-ladles'' (1943) (Art.IWM ART LD 1773)]]
Following the collapse of the print market in the early 1930s, due to the [[Great Depression]], Sutherland began to concentrate on painting.<ref name="Spalding">{{cite book |author=[[Frances Spalding]]|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club |year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |isbn=1-85149-106-6}}</ref> His early paintings were mainly landscapes and show an affinity with the work of [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]]. In 1934, Sutherland visited [[Pembrokeshire]] in Wales for the first time and was profoundly inspired by its landscape.<ref name=BritCgs>{{cite web |url=http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/sutherland-graham-1903/initial/S
|title=Graham Sutherland (1903–1980) |access-date=1 November 2016|work=[[British Council]]}}</ref><ref name="ERowan">{{cite book|author=Eric Rowan|publisher=Welsh Arts Council, University of Wales Press|year=1985|title=Art in Wales: An Illustrated History 1850-1980|isbn=0708308546}}</ref> The region remained a source for his paintings for much of the following decade and he visited the area each year until the start of the Second World War.<ref name="Spalding"/> Sutherland focused on the inherent strangeness of natural forms, abstracting them to sometimes give his work a [[surrealist]] appearance and in 1936 he exhibited at the [[International Surrealist Exhibition]] in London.<ref name="Must See">{{cite book|editor=[[Stephen Farthing]] |publisher=Cassell Illustrated/ Quintessence|year=2006|title=1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die|isbn=978-1-84403-563-2}}</ref> As the 1930s progressed and the political situation in Europe grew worse, he began to depict ominous, distorted human forms emerging from the land.<ref name="JKing"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sutherland-green-tree-form-interior-of-woods-n05139|title=Display caption, Green Tree Form: Interior of Woods|website=Tate|access-date=21 July 2022}}</ref> Oil paintings of the Pembrokeshire landscape dominated his first one-man exhibition of paintings, held in September 1938 at the Rosenberg and Helft Gallery in London.<ref name="ODNBgs"/> It was these oil paintings, of surreal, organic landscapes of the Pembrokeshire coast, that secured his reputation as a leading British modern artist.<ref name=Beebbio>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/graham-sutherland/|title= Graham Sutherland |date=13 January 2011|access-date=6 November 2016|work=[[BBC Wales]]}}</ref>

Alongside oil painting, Sutherland also took up glass design, fabric design, and poster design during the 1930s, and taught engraving at the [[Chelsea School of Art]] from 1926.<ref name="Darkness"/> Between 1935 and 1940, he also taught composition and book illustration at Chelsea.<ref name="ODNBgs"/> Sutherland converted to [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]] in December 1926, the year before his marriage to Kathleen Barry (1905–1991), who had been his fellow student at Goldsmiths College. The couple, who were inseparable, lived at various locations in Kent, before eventually buying a property in [[Trottiscliffe]] in 1945.<ref name="ODNBgs"/>