Topaz, Christmas 1953 by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973)

Topaz, Christmas 1953 by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973)Ophelias mother Winifred Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell is usually referred to as a society animal painter. She was one of three sisters from a London family; Dorothea, who owned the house in St. Johns Wood where Ophelia grew up, also had a large property on the outskirts of Windermere, hence the Lake District connection. There is a reference to Winifred in Heaton Coopers autobiography Mountain Painter in which he notes that she was "a painter of animals,

Part gripping memoir

Here is another beautiful view across Derwentwater

Nick Moore steers us on an enlightening journey through the true value of riding a bicycle

Dominating the whole scene

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This wonderful Brause parchment paper is ideal for announcements

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landscape and the relationship between the two

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coloured pencil for architectural drawing

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and the exhaustion of being human evoke the spacious