edmund blampied

Description

Edmund Blampied (1886-1966)

The Vraic Cart

charcoal, watercolour and ink on paper

35cm x 47.5cm

signed Blampied lower left

painted circa 1925

notes:

Edmund Blampied was one of the most eminent artists to come from the Channel Islands, yet he received no formal training in art until he was 16 years old. He was noted mostly for his etchings and drypoints, published at the height of the print boom in the 1920s, but was also a lithographer, caricaturist, cartoonist, book illustrator and artist in oils, watercolours, silhouettes and bronze.

further reading:

Edmund Blampied : An Illustrated Life, Jersey Heritage Trust, 2010