The oil collection

One of the best known oil paintings in the collection is The Family by Bernard Fleetwood Walker.  The collection also contains works by local artists as diverse as James Holland and Arthur Berry as well as pottery designers-turned-artists such as Grete Marks and Gordon Forsyth.

Early twentieth century British art production is represented through works by the Slade School artists, Scottish colourists, the Camden Town School (such as Walter Sickert), the Bloomsbury Group (such as Duncan Grant), a small sample of British Surrealists from Conroy Maddox to Eileen Agar, and work by the war artists, in particular Paul Nash. 

Pictured to the right is Girl by a Mantlepiece, by Harold Gilman, a Camden Town Group painter who lived from 1876 to 1919.