Mission: Pavilion of Seven Eyes

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'The face of the moon bounced the sun’s used rays down across the landscape. Ahead of me, and three shades darker than the night, the black bore of the railway path gaped.'
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Img. Ravilious, Owl on a Rocky Hollow Lane.

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Four ponds. From top left to bottom left 'Newt Pond' by Eric Ravilious, 1932. 'Frozen Ponds' by John Nash, 1953. 'Ponds' by Louise Camrass (year unknown - modern). 'River Ponds' by Wayne Theibaud, 1998.

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The Vale of the White Horse, Eric Ravilious, 1939. It depicts the landscape at Uffington, The original artwork is in the collection of .

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Newt Pond, Eric Ravilious, 1932. Depicting a scene at Great Bardfield in Believed to be in a private collection after being sold at .

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Mexico Pavilion concept art by Collin Campbell (1979)

I love this concept art because it shows a familiar picture but the closer you look the more foreign if becomes. Notice how the attraction had an exterior portion (on the left) and how the restaurant outside had a small bar.

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Visit the City of Grace, a city filled with mercy and goodwill. The temple, pavilion, and peach grove... farmers work on the field. Everything looks so tranquil, but...

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'As I looked at those grape-blue eyes, fringed with their fiery gold, the bleak face seemed to crumble back into the dusk; only the eyes lived on.'
J. A. Baker, on a tawny owl. The Peregrine.

Image: Left: Tawny Owl by E Ravilious. Right, ditto by C F Tunnicliffe.

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Two women sitting in a garden, 1932
Eric Ravilious (British, 1903-42)
watercolour

Due donne sedute in un giardino, 1932

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The one at the right is Avilio (from 91Days) and he is awful like that :'( https://t.co/wMwAYoG73p

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World War I :: Royal Pavilion In Brighton Converted In To Hospital For Wounded Indian Soldiers

( Photo - British Library)

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"Storm" 1941...Watercolour by (British,1903-1942)..

Official WW2 and member of the group of

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Two Erics, two views of Cuckmere Haven. Left, 'The Coastguard Station' by Eric Slater, c. 1930s. Right, 'Cuckmere Haven' by Eric Ravilious, 1939. The Ravilious view is more or less from outside the cottages, looking landward.

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The organisers of the ECOFeminism Festival originally scheduled to take place at the Art Pavilion between 26 March & 5 April have informed us that they will be postponing the event. It will now take place in November. We will post further details in due course.

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In just a few days, we’ve gone from 4K to almost 5K followers! Thank you all! Tomorrow is & there will be a special post. For now here’s Two Women in A Garden, Eric Ravilious, 1932. Original with . The women: Charlotte Bawden & Tirzah Harwood.

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Four hill figures by Ravilious. Top left to bottom left: The Long Man of Wilmington, The Cerna Abbas Giant, The Westbury Horse, and The Vale of the White Horse. All 1939.

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'Because he was always up early and liked to catch the countryside at its first freshness, he had often drawn the sun. For many of his watercolours he had looked directly into it.'
Christopher Neve on Eric Ravilious.
Left: Rye Harbour, 1938. Right Dungeness, 1939.

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Built around 1810, the Rose Pavilion at Pavlovsk, St Petersburg, Russia, was originally a graceful wooden building surrounded by beds of roses with just a simple fence that aptly delimitated its ground at the edge of the White Birch area.

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