Sheep Shearing at Garrett's Farm, Bocking
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Sheep Shearing at Garrett's Farm, Bocking is a 1940 watercolor by Walter Bayes, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour painting is titled Sheep Shearing at Garrett's Farm, Bocking. It's a work by English painter Walter Bayes. The painting depicts a traditional summer ritual, sheep-shearing, which was crucial to the wealth of many towns in Essex and East Anglia. The scene shows the hard work involved in this process. To learn more about the artist's style and other works, look up the artist: Bayes, Walter.
A watercolour by Walter Bayes from 1940 depicts two shearers at work in a barn, with sheep in pens awaiting their turn. The background shows additional farm buildings through an open door. The work was produced for the Recording Britain collection, a wartime project documenting British life and landscape. The scheme aimed to record sites and industries perceived as vulnerable to wartime change or neglect.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Walter John Bayes was an English painter and illustrator who was a founder member of both the Camden Town Group and the London Group and also a renowned art teacher and critic.
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