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cicely mary baker’s world colors moodboard

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Dance then fairies for joy and sing the song of the coming again of Spring...
The Crocus Fairies

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✨ Cicely Mary Barker ✨
Her art screams fairycore! I fell inlove with the illustrations and stickers and flower fairy diys for that certain artbook 💖✨ Book was also donated to orphans so it was ok for me

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Flower Fairies are another one of those magical time tunnels for me Cicely Mary Barker, created the Flower Fairies. “Unable to go to school as a child because of her epilepsy, she was home-schooled and spent much of her time drawing and painting.”

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“You have dancing shoes with nimble soles.” Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Sc 4

Img: Cicely Mary Barker

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2021-02-07

I can’t bring myself to reflect on ALL of the lessons that Auntie Cicely taught me 💗 but I will just say that I am grateful to have been on this earth the same time as her.

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Fairy, also spelled faerie or faery, a mythical being of folklore and romance usually having magic powers and dwelling on earth in close relationship with humans.

📷The Yew Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker.

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Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Single Snowdrop, 1777 and Snowdrop illustration by Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973), English illustrator best known for an early 20thc series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers

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“The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat."

— Cicely Tyson

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2021-01-30

Illustrator Cicely Mary Barker was largely self-taught due to ill health.
Her Flower Fairies combined botanical sketches with characterful life drawings of local children.
Here her portrait of ‘The Garden Boy’ becomes the watchful Elm Fairy

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2021-01-21

Alice B. Woodward was primarily known for her children's storybook illustrations, but she also did scientific illustrations (including dinosaur reconstructions for the Illustrated London News), art for 2 Gilbert & Sullivan operas & was a tutor to the artist Cicely Mary Barker.

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The snowdrop fairy
🎨Cicely Mary Barker

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The Fairies of the Tree by Cicely Mary Barker, 1940

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