Photo: Tirzah Garwood photographed by Edwin Smith in 1950 Eileen Lucy "Tirzah" Garwood (11 April 1908–27 March 1951); British artist and engraver, considered a member of the Great Bardfield Artists. She was the wife of the artist Eric Ravilious from 1930 until his death in 1942. Garwood was born in Gillingham, Kent, the third of 5 children.... Her name "Tirzah" was bestowed by her siblings, a reference to Tirzah in the Bible, and possibly a corruption of a reference by her grandmother to "Little Tertia", that is, the third child.... She was educated at West Hill School in Eastbourne from 1920-24, and then at Eastbourne School of Art from 1925, under Reeves Fawkes, Oliver Senior and, as a wood engraver, Eric Ravilious. She moved to Kensington in 1928. She later studied at the Central School of Art. One of Garwood's early woodcuts, shown at the Society of Wood Engravers' annual exhibition in 1927, was praised in The Times. She undertook commissions for the Kynoch Press and for the BBC, for whom she produced a new rendering of their coat-of-arms. In 1928 Garwood illustrated Granville Bantock's oratorio The Pilgrim's Progress, which he wrote as a BBC commission. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirzah_Garwood) Like her husband, Garwood was a highly original artist, her speciality being wood engravings and marbled papers, some of which are in the collection of the V&A. But she was also a wonderful writer and this week, Persephone republishes her singular autobiography Long Live Great Bardfield, a book she began while recovering from a mastectomy early in 1942, and completed the next year, by which time she was a widow (Ravilious, a war artist, was reported missing in September 1942, his aircraft having been lost off Iceland; she died in 1951). (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/18/shelf-life-rachel-cooke-tirzah-garwood-long-live-great-bardfield-eric-ravilious-essex-edward-bawden) undefined

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