BECAUSE HE sculpted mainly to commission rather than exhibiting in galleries, Darsie Rawlins does not have a wide reputation. His main focus was ecclesiastical sculpture, alongside some fine secular commissions, while his skill as a letter-cutter was in the finest English Arts and Crafts tradition.

He was born in 1912 in Kentmere, Westmorland, to artistic parents. His father, George, and mother, Magdalen, both attended Liverpool School of Art and became silversmiths. Darsie acquired his unusual first name from the artist Darsie Japp, a contemporary of Stanley Spencer's at the Slade, who with ...

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