Lot Essay
After a quarrel with Romney Green precipitated his departure from that workshop, Eric Sharpe set up his own at Martyr Worthy near Winchester. Despite an obvious debt to Ernest Gimson whom he much admired and visited at Sapperton, and collaboration with Edward Barnsley (Stratton Audley Church in Oxfordshire), his work retains several very individual characteristics. One of these is his love of lettering, exemplified here in his 'Greek' monogram which also belies his early travels through the south eastern Mediterranean.
There are examples of Sharpe's work from his own house in the Cheltenham Art Gallery Collections.
There are examples of Sharpe's work from his own house in the Cheltenham Art Gallery Collections.