Eric Ravilious’s paintings have a particularly English quality. But while they celebrate the English landscape, they in no way romanticise it. He later became a naval war artist and died in Iceland while painting the fight against Hitler. This documentary, filled with many examples of his art, casts him as a boyish innocent, a man filled with simple excitement at the joys in his life, very much including his craft, albeit one who asked a lot of his (also talented) wife.

Rialto Recommends:Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War. This true story reveals how a painter of quiet English landscapes became a war artist and never returned. Festival-praised and richly illustrated, it’s a poignant portrait of Eric Ravilious, whose watercolours found beauty even in conflict.