Eric Gill – the early years

11 August 2025 MKHA Webmaster MKHA member events, Speaker meetings 0

Sopers, Ditchling
Sopers, 28 High Street, Ditchling, East Sussex, the home of Eric Gill from 1907 to 1912. Antiquary, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Arts Society North Bucks

Thursday, 11th September 2025 at 11.00 am
Lovat Hall, Silver Street, Newport Pagnell MK16 0EJ

Eric Gill (1882-1940) has been called the greatest artist-craftsman of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most controversial.

This lecture by Mrs Caroline Walker, Gill’s great-niece, explores the artist’s formative years. Starting with his childhood in Brighton and Chichester, we follow the impressionable young Eric’s progress in London and his subsequent ‘escape’ to Ditchling in Sussex where he co-founded a Catholic quasi-monastic craft community.

Caroline runs the MacDonald Gill website – he was Eric Gill’s younger brother- and is the author of MacDonald Gill: Charting a Life.

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