The Brotherhood of Ruralists Information Website - Graham Ovenden Artist Catalogue 1981-1990

We are currently developing this catalogue of works by Graham Ovenden. It will be many months until it can be regarded as comprehensive, but work is being carried out almost continuously. Works are listed by year of completion or first exhibition.

1981

Ophelia, oil on canvas laid on board

'It's a Lapwing's', pencil on paper, 9" x 7", illustration for Wuthering Heights [A~1]

Camille, pencil on paper with some colour, 17" x 13" {A1}

Camille, coloured pencils on paper, 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" {A1}

Elinore (portrait), photograph {A1}

Elinore (nude), photograph, 11 1/2" x 8 3/4" {A1}

Reflections, Cornish Garden, photograph, 8" x 8 1/8" {A1}

The Garden, photograph {B9} possibly the same as Reflections, Cornish Garden, 1981

Off Sharpnose, Morenstow, photograph, 11 5/8" x 12 3/4" {A1}

November Morning, photograph, 9 3/4" x 6 3/4" {A1}

Near Coombe, oil on panel, 9 1/4" x 12" {A1}

Dartmoor, oil on panel, 5 1/2" x 7" {A1}

The Bright Cloud, oil on panel, 8 3/4" x 8" {A1, B4}

After the Bath, oil on panel, 36" x 30 2/5" {A1, B4, B12#} possibly completed 1980 if {B12} is correct.

Maud, oil on panel, 10 2/5" x 7 1/5" {A1, B4, B12#} possibly completed 1980 if {B12} is correct.

Amy's Maypole, oil on paper, 12 1/5" x 15" {A1}

The Three Graces, oil on panel, 10" x 7 3/5" {A1}

Irish Girl, oil on board, 9 3/4" x 7 1/2" {B4}

Celia, oil on board, 7" x 8 1/2" {B4, B12#} possibly completed 1980 if {B12} is correct.

Jenny, oil on board, 7 1/4" x 8" {B4}

Two Trees, oil on canvas, 6 3/4" x 6 1/2" {B4}

Lo, painted aquatint, 12 1/2" x 16" {B4}

Joanna and Miranda, pencil, 15" x 20" {B4}

The Child Anguished, pencil and watercolour, 3 3/8" x 3 1/2" {B4}

1982

The White People, cliché papier, 10" x 6 1/4", illustration for Arthur Machen's The White People {A1}

Laura and Lucy Hodgson, pencil and some colour on paper, 9 2/3" x 7 3/5" {A1}

Life Study (Lucy), oil on panel, 9 2/5" x 7 3/5" {A1}

Two Girls, oil on panel, 10 2/5" x 8 4/5" {A1}

Reflections in Red, oil on panel, 14 2/5" x 1 1/5" {A1}

Sentinels of Silbury, oil on panel, 11 2/5" x 9" {A1}

The Valley, (evening near Coombe), oil on panel, 13 3/4" x 17 1/4" {A1, B3}

Jacky, photograph, 9 3/4" x 7" {A1}

The Incredible Music Machine, oil?, cover for book of same name {A4}

1983

Near Duckpool, early Evening oil on panel, 6" x 4 1/2" {A1~B3}

All Hallows (The Sea Cathedral), oil on panel

Full Moon, oil on panel, 11 1/2" x 9 1/4" {A1, B3, A2}

The Druid's Grove, oil on canvas, 11" x 8" {A1, B3,A2}

Dartmoor Evening, oil on canvas, 8" x 10 3/4" {A1, B3}

Elinore, oil on panel, 72" x 48" {A1, B3}

Jane, oil on panel, 28 1/2" x 16 3/4" {A1, B3}

Maud, photograph, 9 3/4" x 7 1/2" {A1}

Morenstow Churchyard, photograph, 11 5/8" x 7 5/8" {A1, B9}

1984

The Thorn, poetry broadsheet, 8 1/4" x 11" {A1}

Spring Morning, Wiltshire, oil on panel, 21 1/2" x 29" {A1, B3}

The Enigma, oil on panel, 24" x 23 1/2" {A1}

The Residence of the Philosopher Kemp, oil on panel, 21 1/2" x 29" {A1, B3, A2}

Ribbons, oil on canvas, 35 1/2" x 24" {A1, B3}

Cockney Graces, Hommage à Cranach, oil on panel, 22" x 18" {A1~B6}

To Edward Elgar, oil on panel, 18" x 12" {A1}

The Wagon Passes, oil on panel, 14" x 9 1/2" {A1}

Maud, oil on panel, 17" x 15 1/4" {A1, B3}

Emily Alice and Rebecca at Barley Splatt, photograph, 7 7/8" x 9 5/8" {A1}

Starlings, Morenstow, photograph, 7 1/2" x 9 3/4" {A1}

Ferns Barley Splatt, photograph, 9 7/8" x 7 1/4" {A1}

Maud, photograph, 10" x 8" {A1}

Caroline, photograph, 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" {A1}

Shed Door, Larrick, photograph, 9 3/4 x 9 1/4 {A1}

Mother and Child, photograph, 9 3/4" x 6 1/2" {A1}

Romayne, oil on panel, 1 9" x 15" {B3}

Life Study, oil on panel, 8 1/2" x 7" {B3}

1985

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, photographs with decorative pen borders by Brian Partridge {A1}

Tess, coloured pencils on paper, 11" x 11" {A1}

The First Sighting, pencil on paper, 11" x 8 1/4" {A1}

Bitter Ballad, monotype, 9 7/8" x 9 7/8" {A1}

The Other Side of the Mirror, drawing for film synopsis, 11 1/4" x 8 1/4" {A1}

To a Child, poetry broadsheet - pencil on paper, 11" x 8 1/4" {A1}

Portia, pencil on paper, 11" 8 1/4" {A1}

Drawer Secret, poetry broadsheet - cliché papier, 9 1/4" x 11 1/2" {A1}

'Maxwell's Angel Whores ...', monotype on paper, 10 1/8" x 7 7/8" {A1} illustration for the poem 'Betty', edition of five artists proofs {B6}

Study for 'The Tower', oil on panel, 24" x 36" {A1}

We Shadows, oil on panel, 21" x 18" {A1, B6}

Early Morning, oil on panel, 21" x 18" {A1}

The Pillar of Cloud, oil on panel, 13" x 13 1/2" {A1}

Eve, oil on panel, 34" x 23" {A1}

Katy, photograph, 9 1/4" x 7 1/4" {A1}

Maud, photograph {A1}

Margaret Aged Eight, mixed media on paper, 8 1/1 x 6 1/2 {B6}

1986

Juliette, Daisy and Peter Blake at Coombe, pencil on paper, 13" x 17" {A1}

The Trees as Lovers, pencil on paper with some colour, 6" x 8" {A1}

Towards Morenstow, oil on paper, 5 1/4" x 9 5/8" {A1}

The Evening Cornfield, oil on paper, 8 9/10" x 12 1/5" {A1}

Acrostics: Emily, Daisy, Tilly {A1~} and Romayne, Lucy, Camille, Alice {B6}, photographs with pen an ink borders and surrounding illustrations by Brian Partidge, 7" x 5"

Little Lucy sees her Doppelgänger on the Fateful Night, cliché papier and montage, 8" x 8 1/2" {A1}

The Old House on the Estuary, cliché papier, 8" x 11" {A1}, edition of three artist's proofs {B6}

Tilly, poetry broadsheet - cliché papier, 11 1/2" x 8 1/4" {A1}

Katy, pencil on paper, 11" x 8" {A1}

Alexandra Papadakis, oil on panel, 11 1/2" x 8", started 1985 {A1}

The Tower of Babel (small version), oil on panel, 29 3/4" x 23" {A1}

The Tower of Babel, oil, 121.9cm x 203.2cm, started 1984 {A2, A8}

A Mirror Image, oil on panel, 11" x 6 3/4" {B6}

Betty, oil on panel, 10 1/2" x 8 1/8" {B6}

Disused Mine Workings, Bodmin Moor, oil on panel, 22 1/2" x 22 3/4" {B6}

Rock Formation, North Cornwall Coast, oil on panel, 5 1/2" x 5 3/4" {B6}

Dartmoor, Afterglow, oil on canvas, 6 5/8" x 5 5/8" {B6}

Sam, oil on panel, 12 1/2" x 10" {B6}

Katy, oil on panel, 12 1/2" x 10" {B6}

Study for Katy, mixed media on paper, 5 3/4" x 4 1/2" {B6}

Karin, oil on panel, 18 3/4" x 11" {B6}

Cosima, oil on panel, 7 3/4" x 6 1/8" {B6}

Hommage á L.L..., coloured pencils on paper, 12 1/2" x 8 1/2" {B6}

1987

Dr Andreas and Miss Alexandra Papadakis, oil on panel, 48" x 40" {B6} also referred to as Family Portrait {A2}

The Tower of Babel, oil on panel, 48" x 80" {A1#B6} also referred to as The Tower {B6}

The Approach to Dartmoor, oil on panel, 32 1/4" x 36" {B6}

Bodmin Moor Morning, oil on panel, 12 1/2" x 17 1/2" {B6}

Margaret Aged Ten, oil on panel, 11 3/4" x 10" {B6, B14}

Emily Alice Ovenden, oil on panel, 35 1/2" x 24" {B6, A2}

The First Sighting, oil on panel, 25" x 36" {B6,B14}

Katy, oil on panel, 31.8cm x 25.4cm" {A2}

Destroyed Old Red Sandstone Woodlands Near Exeter, oil on panel, 12" x 18 1/2" {B6}

The Perspective of Time (The Tower of Babel), polychromatic granites, base 80cmx84cm, height 54cm {A2}

Gentle Bones of Man, ballpoint pen (biro), drawn for Nine Poems, by Eve Machin {A6}

1989

Old Mine Workings, Welsh Borders, oil, 121.9cm x 203.2cm" {A2}

Shropshire Valley, oil {A2}

Rainbow, oil {A2}

Illustration for 'Der Doppelgänger' by Graham Ovenden, pencil, for publication in The Secret Garden, The Brotherhood of Ruralists, 1989 {A5}

Illustration for 'Adandoned Cottage' by Simon Rae, pencil, for publication in Great Tew {A7}

Night Garden, oil, 9 1/2" x 10 3/4" {B13} possibly completed 1988

Morning Garden, oil, 12 1/2" x 9 1/2" {B13} possibly completed 1988

Evening Garden, oil, 12 1/2" x 9 1/4" {B13} possibly completed 1988

Flora, oil, 30" x 12" {B13} possibly completed 1988

Emma at Larrik, oil, 19" x 15 1/2" {B13} possibly completed 1988

Valentine's Garden, oil, 23 3/4" x 29" {B13} possibly completed 1988

The Garden Bottom, Barley Splatt, pastel, 9 3/4" x 6 3/4" {B13} possibly completed 1988

Winter Snowdrops, pastel, 10" x 7 1/4" {B13} possibly completed 1988

Autumn, West Dean, pastel and crayon, 7 1/4" x 11" {B13} possibly completed 1988

1990

Towards the Sea, oil, 47cm x 39.4cm" {A2}

Self Portrait, oil {A2}

Girl in the Shadows, oil, 33 x 31.8cm {A2,B14~}

Alice, oil on paper laid on board

"What is a Caucus-Race?" said Alice, oil on panel, 6 1/4" x 6" {B10}

"Alice" - or Through a Glass Darkly, oil on board, 26" x 19 1/2" {B11}

Updated: 1 July 2005