Background
Garwood was born in 1908, her father being a retired Royal Engineers" lieutenant-colonel.
Garwood was born in 1908, her father being a retired Royal Engineers" lieutenant-colonel.
She studied at Eastbourne School of Art from 1925, under Reeves Fawkes, Oliver Senior and, as a wood engraver, Eric Ravilious. She later studied at the Central School of Artist
One of Garwood"s early woodcuts, shown at the Society of Wood Engravers" annual exhibition in 1927, was praised in The Times. She undertook commissions for the Kynoch Press and for the British Broadcasting Corporation, for whom she produced a new rendering of their coat-of-arms. Garwood also illustrated Granville Bantock"s oratorio The Pilgrim"s Progress, which he wrote as a British Broadcasting Corporation commission.
In 1930, Garwood married Eric Ravilious.
Between 1930 and 1932 the couple lived in Hammersmith, London, where there is a blue plaque on the wall of their house at the corner of Upper Mall and Weltje Road. In 1933 they painted murals at the Midland Hotel in Morecambe.
In 1934 they purchased Bank House at Castle Hedingham, and a blue plaque now commemorates this. After Anne was born in April 1941, the family moved out of the often cold, and sometimes flooded, Bank House to Ironbridge Farm near Shalford, Essex.
During the winter of 1941 Garwood became ill, was diagnosed with cancer and underwent emergency surgery.
Eric Ravilious died in a plane crash on 2 September 1942, while working on a commission for the War Artists" Advisory Committee. The government proved reluctant to pay Garwood the widow"s pension she was due nor to settle Ravilious"s outstanding pay for over a year. Garwood began painting in oils and resumed her career.
In 1946, Garwood married the Anglo-Irish radio producer Henry Swanzy.
However she was again diagnosed with cancer and died in 1952. Two of her paintings are in the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, which also has the largest collection of Ravilious" work.
Both also have works in the Fry Art Gallery. She was painted by Ravilious, in Two Women in a Garden (1936), alongside Charlotte Bawden.