‘When I’m on good form,’ Edward Bawden told me, ‘I get to some point in the design and I laugh and talk — and if I’m laughing, it probably means the work is rather good.’ You can see his exuberance everywhere in the exhibition of his work at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
Martin Gayford
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But his evocative linocuts are better than his flat watercolours, as this Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibitions shows

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