Sally Gaywood - 1961 Oil The Tithe Barn

Description

A charming oil scene showing a tractor and cart driving down a country road with a child riding on the back. The road runs by a large tithe barn, surrounded by fields and trees. The artist has signed and dated to the lower right corner and the painting has been presented in a contemporary gilt effect frame with lime wash finish and a white inner window. There is a handwritten note from the artist at the reverse. On wove.

Condition

The painting is in fine condition. The frame has some surface scuffing and dirtying and some cracking to the upper right corner.

Size

34 x 45cm (13.4" x 17.7")

Artist Biography

Sally Gaywood was born in Chester and from a very early age showed a natural aptitude for painting. She became a pupil of the late Robert Goodwin, the marine and portrait painter and studied with him in his Chelsea studio. Over the years she has undertaken a number of important commissions including 6 views of the Royal farms at Windsor. These are now part of HM the Queen's Royal Collection. She has worked for the British Army on an aspect of the Gulf war for R.E.M.E. Two paintings for the British Horse Society and a panoramic view of London with St. Paul's Cathedral for the C.E.G.B. Her work shows great depth and feeling for the English Landscape, in particular Dartmoor in its many moods.