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61, ill-health retired from NHS; degree in English Lit; I love churches, historic barns, art, music, history & wildlife. My son Chris is a doctor in the NHS.

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A seasonal favourite wood engraving by Gertrude Hermes. "A Creation". Large sunflower head, nude couple kneeling, embracing & holding baby at centre of flower, animals & insects surrounding, mountainous landscape with comets & shooting stars 1927.

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2019-07-17

Fill your heart with joy, with this novel bed-time reading. * Lady Filmy Fern fleeing from the Welsh Polypod, 1980 - one of 19 illustrations (plus dust-jacket) made by Edward Bawden for Thomas Hennell's Lady Filmy Fern (written 1930s, pub 1980).

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2019-07-03

Beatrix Potter's nature sketches are beautifully detailed. Here, she uses watercolour and pencil on paper to create a portrait of a bat (1885). From the collection of the V and A.

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2019-04-17

Another beautiful work by the late Greg Poole - wood pigeons. I need their sweet call to calm me down!

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2019-03-15

I had to choose this for 1 March - it has everything; catkins, pussy-willow, daffodils, primroses and crocuses. "Spring bouquet", 1930 wood-engraving, by Gertrude Hermes.

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2019-03-01

I accepted a challenge from to post 7 decorated initials I love: 1 initial/day for 1 week. Day 3/7 * Decorated initial S. Minute for Le Miroir de la Salvation humaine. Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, Ms. 9249–50, f.1v. 🐉🐉

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2019-02-12

Ever feel as though you are spinning too many plates? Edward Bawden understands the sensation, as these February calendar illustrations demonstrate.

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2019-02-01

Another image offering respite. I like the outrageous pink feet! A LONG-FACED TUMBLER PIGEON by Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe. Watercolour over pencil.

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2019-01-16

And finally, for now, a breath-taking 1937 wood engraving of Chinese geese. Tunnicliffe’s work was factually accurate, but he prioritised design, using the patterns found in nature to make a beautiful, decorative image.

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2018-12-27

The Kitchen Garden in October - illustration by Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942). From: Ambrose Heath, The Country Life cookery book : with a few hints and reminders about the kitchen garden, London : Country Life, 1937. I am intrigued by those jars - pickled onions?

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2018-10-28