Artists at the Fry describes the background to works in the Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex. The Gallery is based on the artists of Great Bardfeld, including Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, Michael Rothenstein, John Aldridge and Kenneth Rowntree who lived in the Essex village between 1930 and 1970, and other artists who lived and worked in the area, notably Keith Vaughan, Michael Ayrton, Robert Colquhoun, Robert MacBryde and, latterly, John Bellany.Nigel Weaver is a founding trustee of the Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden. Andrew Lambirth is a writer about art who also writes poetry and makes collages. Besides contributing to a range of publications including the Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian and RA Magazine, he was art critic for the Spectator 2002-2014. Among his recent books are monographs on David Inshaw, Eileen Gray and William Gear. Olive Cook was an artist, historian and writer, born in Cambridge on February 20, 1912 and educated at Perse School for Girls and Newnham College, where she studied modern languages. After working at the National Gallery, she began painting and after the war she wrote the publications Suffolk (1948), Cambridgeshire: aspects of a county (1953), and Breckland (1956) about the surrounding countryside. She, too, was a founding trustee of the Fry Art Gallery. In 1954 Olive married the photographer and architect Edwin Smith and together they produced publications about English architecture; Smith's photographs complimenting Cook's in depth historical writing.