Signed Limited Edition Print of 12
30 x 30cm
Printed on Museum Etching 350gsm paper
 
As seen at my solo exhibition 'Six Hills Secrets'  at Stevenage Museum, 9th March - 28 April 2026.
 
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was a writer, politician and aristocrat and founded the Guild of Literature & Art in 1860 to help struggling writers and artists. Set up with close friend Charles Dickens, with whom he had a shared passion for amateur theatricals and social reform, Bulwer-Lytton donated a plot of land next to the Six Hills where the Guild Houses were built. Bulwer-Lytton’s writing has provided lasting quotes including “it was a dark and stormy night” – the opening line to his novel Paul Clifford, and “the pen is mightier than the sword” – from his historical play Cardinal Richelieu.
 
Opening in 1949, Barclay School was the first hertfordshire post-war secondary school. It won a Festival of Britain architectural award in 1951. Public art welcomed students with local artist Henry Moore’s ‘Family Group’ sculpture by the entrance. Stevenage’s motto ‘the heart of a town lies in its people’ was first written in one of the school’s classrooms by then student Richard Ingle.