Bernard Sleigh
Mural painter, stained-glass artist, illustrator and wood engraver (1872-1954)
Like his mentor Arthur Gaskin, Bernard Sleigh was one of a group of talented decorative artists in Birmingham at the turn of the century, and he was specially skilled in the craft of wood engraving. Like Gaskin he retired to Campden, moving into Old Forge Cottage, Cider Mill Lane, in 1937. By that time his imagery had changed from romantic medievalism to a strangely literal world of fairies and elves.
Bernard Sleigh photographed outside Forge Cottage by Roland Dyer