Typical Lincolnshire Fen Farmland Lettuce, Cabbage, Potatoes and Other Market Garden Crops Are Being Grown. Tomatoes Are Being Planted Out and Straw Is Being Put Round the Strawberries. Some Crops Are Being Hurried Up under Cloches. Small Orchards and Bulb Fields Can Be Seen

Stanley Roy Badmin (1906-1989)

Price

£1,450

Signed

Inscribed with title

Medium

Watercolour, ink and pencil

Dimensions

5 ½ x 8 ½ inches

Illustrated

Preliminary drawing for Sir George Stapledon, Farm Crops in Britain, Harmondsworth: Puffin Picture Books, 1955, page 28

Exhibited

'S R Badmin RWS, Paintings, Drawings & Prints', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2015, no 133

'The Fenland lies chiefly in the Isle of Ely, South Lincolnshire and parts of West Suffolk, West Norfolk and Cambridge. The area was originally famous for its grassland and fat sheep, and also of course for the large areas of marsh and lake with their wildfowl, but since it was reclaimed these silts are used for the most intensive arable farming in the country. To-day vegetables, fruit, and flowers (bulbs) are a main feature of Fenland farming, while it is the largest potato-growing area in England. The Fens have also become a considerable centre for the canning of local-grown peas. Three-quarters of the celery crop of the whole country is grown in the Fens, and most market garden crops are represented, especially carrots and cauliflowers.
Here also is our home-grown bulb industry, and the Fens produce heavy crops of high-quality strawberries.'
Farm Crops in Britain, 1955, page 28

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