Miles and Susanna Richmond, David Bomberg & The Borough Group
Bob Richmond’s parents, Miles and Susanna Richmond, were both pupils and friends of David Bomberg. It was Bomberg’s unique power to find the balance between modernity and tradition in the tremendously disoriented, and disorienting, currents of twentieth century history and culture.
Miles and Susanna worked and studied with Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic in south London in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and then lived beside David and Lilian Bomberg at Ronda in southern Spain until his death in 1957. Miles and Susanna then remained in southern Spain until 1977 when they returned to England.
Through their work and close collaborations with Bomberg, Miles and Susanna Richmond brought an important tradition of art to The Motor House, from Bomberg himself and also from the time of Bomberg’s tuition in London in the early years of the C20th by Henry Tonks at the Slade, and by Walter Sickert, through to William Lethaby, Philip Webb’s biographer who in 1896 became the founder of the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.
