BENINGFIELD'S ENGLISH FARM by Gordon Beningfield (Hardback) Viking VINTAGE 1988

 BENINGFIELD'S ENGLISH FARM by Gordon Beningfield. FIRST EDITION

Gordon Beningfield has built up a reputation as Britain's leading countryside artist through his eticulous and affectionate paintings and drawings of the rural scene.

His subject is the English countryside as it has been, should be, and sometimes still is. In BENINGFIELD'S ENGLISH FARM, which is published ten years after his first book, he has set out to celebrate that most characteristic feature of the countryside, the traditional farm and its animals.

The product of this effort is a richly nostalgic portrait of all the inhabitants of the traditional Enlish farm: not just cattle and sheep and pigs, but working horses and donkeys, chickens, pecking around in the barn yard, ducks by the pond, lop-eared rabbits,  ashephers's dog that is very unlike the collies of today and, of course, a ginger tom on the prowl.

Gordon Beningfield's pictures, over a hundred of them, show his work at its finest, mixing evocative landscapes with portraits of animals, some charming like the English nanny goat and kid, some humorous like the Middle White pig. These, and many pthers, will delight Beningfield's many admirers and all othe lovers of the countryside.

 

A FIRST EDITION hardback published in 1988 by Viking.