Godfrey Paul Eagleton was born in 1935. He was a painter, etcher and teacher. Not a great deal is known about him. He studied at the Camberwell School of Art and at The Slade. He exhibited at the Royal Society for Painter-Etchers and engravers in 1964 with an etching of Brompton Oratory and at the Battersea District Library and also the Woodstock Gallery in 1969. He also had solo exhibitions at the Opus Gallery and the Battersea Art Gallery. Eagleton worked and lived in London.
This large wonderful aquatint etching probably dates from the 1960s. It was printed by Editions Alecto, an innovative Printing Publisher founded in Cambridge in 1960 and since 1962 based in London. It shows Sherborne school in Dorset, one of the oldest and best known boarding schools in England. The dark grey colours dominate here, both in the building and the sky as if it is shown at night or perhaps just before a thunderstorm. Only the green in the grass and the brown in the building give some much-needed relief. The colours, the dark sky and the ancient buildings gives the work a very ‘Gothic’ feel.
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