Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs, Castle Hedingham and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity.
- Occupation
- painter, illustrator, graphic artist, wood engraver
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- July 22, 1903
- Died
- September 2, 1942
