among them ‘V.E. Day, Bath, 8 May 1945’ (collection, The Imperial War Museum). In 1941 William and Mary Scott. who had left France at the outbreak of war, moved to Hallatrow, Somerset, to set up a market garden. William Scott wanted to do some teaching and went taking one of his paintings, to see Ellis, who offered him some part-time work and is reported to have told his wife ‘Today I met a real painter'. Scott worked at the art school for a short time in late 1941 or early 1942 before joining the Royal Engineers, he returned to teaching in Bath after demobilization in early 1946. Another artist to start in Bath at Sydney Place in 1946 was Kenneth Armitage. Major Armitage, as he then was (having specialised in the recognition of aircraft, tanks and other war machines, hence, he says, his interest in outline in sculpture), had his attention drawn to an advertisement for a sculpture teacher by another officer in the mess. He applied and got the job. Later, at a time when Armitage was preparing for an exhibition, William Turnbull took over for a few months. Lydia Sylvestri, a pupil of Marino Marini, taught sculpture for a year or two as did Anne Severs who had been a student at Corsham. In 1946 Ellis was offered the Chair in Fine Art at Newcastle, but declined the invitation as he wanted to develop his interests and ideas with his colleagues in Bath. After the war there was a great demand for educational courses, particularly by demobilized ex-service personnel whose fees and maintenance costs were paid for by government grants under the Further Education and Training Scheme. There was a great need for teachers, among them teachers of art. Clifford Ellis had his own special ideas on training art teachers but space at Bath Art School was limited to 99 Sydney Place. The problem was solved, however, when Lord Methuen told Clifford Ellis that Corsham Court, which had been used military convalescent hospital during the war, was now vacant and that he was looking for a tenant who could benefit from the visual ambience. This accommodation perfectly matched Clifford Ellis’s ideas and ideals. In 1945 Clifford and Rosemary Ellis had designed the first of more than 90 book jackets for the Collins’ ‘New Naturalist’ series; the last was published in 1985, the year of Clifford’s death. They also designed a mural for the entrance foyer for the 'Britain Can Make It' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1946. Henceforth, though they continued with their graphics and painting on a reduced scale, the Ellises’ majn artwork was to be the Bath Academy at Corsham Court, the first residential academy of art in England. Corsham lies about 9 miles to the east and a little north of Bath and the town