The magic of Tirzah Garwood
Matthew Lyons | Engelsberg Ideas | 26th November 2024
Garwood married a renowned artist who died early in WW2. Her own death, soon after the war, propelled her “into an unearned oblivion”. A current London exhibition is her first in 70 years. After an initial foray into woodblock printing, she switched to painting, capturing a distinctive “English vernacular … dog shows, vegetable gardens, quiet domesticity”. Some works might seem “childlike”, but they are “without sentimentality. [This is] life itself hiding in plain sight. The more you look, the more astonishing it all is.”