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He was less successful at portraying the human figure which rarely appears in his artwork, apart from the illustrations he drew for his children.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=\u00bb#9f8d60&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb width=\u00bb80%\u00bb module_alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb width=\u00bb60%\u00bb width_tablet=\u00bb80%\u00bb width_phone=\u00bb\u00bb width_last_edited=\u00bbon|tablet\u00bb border_width_bottom=\u00bb1px\u00bb border_color_bottom=\u00bb#9f8d60&#8243; global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_image src=\u00bbhttps:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/25azz0108jpg-scaled.jpg\u00bb title_text=\u00bb25+azz0108+jpg\u00bb align=\u00bbcenter\u00bb _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb text_orientation=\u00bbcenter\u00bb width=\u00bb80%\u00bb module_alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p>Untitled landscape. Tolkien painted this scene in a small sketch-book used during his childhood. He had an abiding love of the English countryside with its \u2018little lanes and hedges and rustling trees\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb width=\u00bb60%\u00bb width_tablet=\u00bb80%\u00bb width_phone=\u00bb\u00bb width_last_edited=\u00bbon|tablet\u00bb border_width_bottom=\u00bb1px\u00bb border_color_bottom=\u00bb#9f8d60&#8243; global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_image src=\u00bbhttps:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/58.jpg\u00bb title_text=\u00bb58&#8243; align=\u00bbcenter\u00bb _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb text_orientation=\u00bbcenter\u00bb width=\u00bb80%\u00bb module_alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Lambourn Berkshire. West Door of Church\u2019, 30 August 1912. At the end of his first year at university, Tolkien took a short vacation in Lambourn, Berkshire (about 25 miles south-west of Oxford) and made a number of sketches and paintings of the countryside and of rural buildings.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb width=\u00bb60%\u00bb width_tablet=\u00bb80%\u00bb width_phone=\u00bb\u00bb width_last_edited=\u00bbon|tablet\u00bb border_width_bottom=\u00bb1px\u00bb border_color_bottom=\u00bb#9f8d60&#8243; global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_image src=\u00bbhttps:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/84-medium.jpg\u00bb title_text=\u00bb84-medium\u00bb align=\u00bbcenter\u00bb _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb text_orientation=\u00bbcenter\u00bb width=\u00bb80%\u00bb module_alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Cottage Barnt Green\u2019, 12 July 1913. This was the home of the Incledon family. May Incledon was his mother\u2019s older sister and her daughters, Mary and Marjorie, were Tolkien\u2019s cousins and his companions from early childhood.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb width=\u00bb60%\u00bb width_tablet=\u00bb80%\u00bb width_phone=\u00bb\u00bb width_last_edited=\u00bbon|tablet\u00bb border_width_bottom=\u00bb1px\u00bb border_color_bottom=\u00bb#9f8d60&#8243; global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_image src=\u00bbhttps:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/78alternativeatm-0279.jpg\u00bb title_text=\u00bb78+alternative+(atm-0279)\u00bb align=\u00bbcenter\u00bb _builder_version=\u00bb4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb text_orientation=\u00bbcenter\u00bb width=\u00bb80%\u00bb module_alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Barnt Green July 2nd 1913 (Foxglove year)&#8217;. During the holidays, Tolkien often stayed with the Incledons at their cottage in the village of Barnt Green in Worcestershire. 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This view was painted on an excursion from his cousins\u2019 house in Barnt Green.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb width=\u00bb60%\u00bb width_tablet=\u00bb80%\u00bb width_phone=\u00bb\u00bb width_last_edited=\u00bbon|tablet\u00bb border_width_bottom=\u00bb1px\u00bb border_color_bottom=\u00bb#9f8d60&#8243; global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_image src=\u00bbhttps:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/72-jpg-scaled.jpg\u00bb title_text=\u00bb72-jpg\u00bb align=\u00bbcenter\u00bb _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb text_orientation=\u00bbcenter\u00bb width=\u00bb80%\u00bb module_alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Turl Street Oxford\u2019, 1913. This is the view from Exeter College where Tolkien was an undergraduate. He lived in the college on Turl Street for three years when he was a student.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb width=\u00bb60%\u00bb width_tablet=\u00bb80%\u00bb width_phone=\u00bb\u00bb width_last_edited=\u00bbon|tablet\u00bb border_width_bottom=\u00bb1px\u00bb border_color_bottom=\u00bb#9f8d60&#8243; global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_image src=\u00bbhttps:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/61jpgcropped-scaled.jpg\u00bb title_text=\u00bb61+jpg+cropped\u00bb align=\u00bbcenter\u00bb _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb text_orientation=\u00bbcenter\u00bb width=\u00bb80%\u00bb module_alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cove near The Lizard\u2019, painted whilst he was on holiday with a friend in Cornwall, 12 August 1914. As Tolkien travelled down to Cornwall by train, Britain declared war on Germany. 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Tolkien was inspired by the wild Cornish coastline to paint scenes, both real and imagined; to write long descriptive letters to his fianc\u00e9e Edith, and later to transform the experience into poetry.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb width=\u00bb60%\u00bb width_tablet=\u00bb80%\u00bb width_phone=\u00bb\u00bb width_last_edited=\u00bbon|tablet\u00bb border_width_bottom=\u00bb1px\u00bb border_color_bottom=\u00bb#9f8d60&#8243; global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_image src=\u00bbhttps:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/93azz0112.jpg\u00bb title_text=\u00bb93+azz0112&#8243; align=\u00bbcenter\u00bb _builder_version=\u00bb4.11.2&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.11.2&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb text_orientation=\u00bbcenter\u00bb width=\u00bb80%\u00bb module_alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p>High Life at Gipsy Green\u2019, 1918. These sketches of his early married life were drawn at Gipsy Green near Bednall in Staffordshire where Tolkien lived with his wife, Edith, and infant son, John towards the end of the First World War.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb width=\u00bb60%\u00bb width_tablet=\u00bb80%\u00bb width_phone=\u00bb\u00bb width_last_edited=\u00bbon|tablet\u00bb border_width_bottom=\u00bb1px\u00bb border_color_bottom=\u00bb#9f8d60&#8243; global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_image src=\u00bbhttps:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/105-medium.jpg\u00bb title_text=\u00bb105-medium\u00bb align=\u00bbcenter\u00bb _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb text_orientation=\u00bbcenter\u00bb width=\u00bb80%\u00bb module_alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Tumble Hill near Lyme R[egis]\u2019, August 1928. As a child Tolkien went on holiday to the seaside resort of Lyme Regis in Dorset with his guardian Father Francis Morgan. 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The title makes it clear that this was a real scene, probably glimpsed from the train as he travelled back to Oxford but the stark black shapes of the pollarded trees and the muted wash of background colours give it an unreal quality.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb width=\u00bb60%\u00bb width_tablet=\u00bb80%\u00bb width_phone=\u00bb\u00bb width_last_edited=\u00bbon|tablet\u00bb border_width_bottom=\u00bb1px\u00bb border_color_bottom=\u00bb#9f8d60&#8243; global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_image src=\u00bbhttps:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/109jpeg.jpg\u00bb title_text=\u00bb109+jpeg\u00bb align=\u00bbcenter\u00bb _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.6.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb text_orientation=\u00bbcenter\u00bb width=\u00bb80%\u00bb module_alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Spring 1940\u2019, showing a flowering Victoria Plum tree in Tolkien\u2019s garden in Northmoor Road, Oxford. 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