Ravilious had met his future wife, Tirzah Garwood, when they were both at Eastbourne College. Tirzah, or Tush, was a brilliant artist and engraver in her own right. She was 18, he was 22. Aware of his reputation as a flirt, she was anxious when he asked her to go for a walk, as to how "not-quite-a-gentleman might behave under such intimate circumstances". He made a drawing of her, which seems to have won her confidence: they were married within a year.
