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Mr and Mrs Sickert (Thérèse Lessore), Bathampton, 1940, see 'Temple Bar' in background,
also 'In the Cabin' (photo: Bath Chronicle and Herald, staff photographer Mr Stride)
to Longleat, near Warminster. Rosemary Ellis continued to teach there until the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, which entailed getting up at 5.30 am and a journey of 10-12 miles by bus and bicycle. The Technical College and Art School found alternative accommodation at 7 and 8 Green Park in Bath. In 1940 Clifford founded the Bath Art Club which had regular Monday evening meetings throughout the war, with a remarkable series of speakers including Laurence Binyon, Nikolaus Pevsner, John Piper and Geoffrey Grigson, Kenneth Clark and John Summerson; meetings were held at the Art School, until it was destroyed by a bomb in May 1942. Immediately after the bombing, Thérèse Lessore offered accommodation to the Art School in Sickert’s old studios, which were used until the school moved into new premises at 99 Sydney Place in September 1942.
During the war Ellis made watercolours for the ‘Recording Britain’ scheme and other works of his were bought by the War Artists Advisory Committee,
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