Original Pencil Drawing heightened with white,'Two Figures with Cats', Edmund Caswell (1938-1996), circa 1980's


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Original Pencil Drawing heightened with white,'Two Figures with Cats', Edmund Caswell (1938-1996), circa 1980's

Mounted ready for framing on white card and matching backing card with cellophane protective wrapping

Overall size of the mount measures approx. 12" x 16" (which means it will fit standard size picture frame). The visible picture opening is 12.75" x 8.75"

A really nice Sketch, ready for you to frame.

EDMUND Caswell (1938-1996), was an artist who specialised in large-scale paintings and murals as befitted his larger-than-life character.
His vivid and colourful portrayals of scenes from Peter Pan adorn the walls of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London.
Painting may have been his passion but Edmund had a colourful and chequered career working on farms and down coal mines before progressing to stage design.
He was born in in India where his great grandfather had settled in the mid-nineteenth century. Young Edmund spent the first seven years of his life in Bangalore before the family returned to Britain. At the age of 13, he won a scholarship to the Coventry School of Art but, after a spell in the army, his love of horses took him into a career on the land and to agricultural college in Oxford to study farming
At the age of 38, Edmund took the plunge and became a full-time artist. In 1980 he began the 72 ft by 8 ft Peter Pan mural at Great Ormond Street, peopling the striking spectacle with 450 characters influenced by his early upbringing in India.
In 1987, it had to be entirely redrafted and Caswell worked night and day for a year to have the mural ready in time to be unveiled by Lady Callaghan to coincide with the passing of Lord Callaghan's Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill which ensured that Great Ormond Street would continue to receive the royalty rights from Sir James Barrie's Peter Pan bequest to the hospital.
A collaboration between Caswell and the concert pianist Norman Beedie on a Mussorgsky project produced a series of 10 paintings depicting the composer's Pictures from an Exhibition. This was later developed into a multi-media production with Caswell's massive and powerful paintings screened for a performance with specially created choreography.
Caswell constantly returned to the Peter Pan theme and in 1994, the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh held a Peter Pan exhibition of the artist's 12 circular Peter Pan oil paintings and original book illustrations done by Caswell for a children's edition of the book in 1991.
It was his second commission to undertake book illustration; in 1986 he illustrated an edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice for the Black Swan Press.
Caswell's depictions of scenes from Tam o' Shanter were used to publish a series of limited edition prints, playing cards, and jigsaws.
His final giant work was a commission for St Mary Magdalene's Church in Dundee

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