22 April 2022
I was surprised and delighted to receive an email asking if I was the maker of a handwritten and bound book about Kew Gardens, made in the 1960s. I made this book when I was a student at St Mary’s College in Twickenham, and it was retained by the tutors at the time, along with some ceramic pieces and paintings. I had often wondered what became of it so to be reunited with it by this message was astonishing.
A trip to London, to the Rare Books Fair in Chelsea, allowed me to handle it and to take photographs, and to think about that time sixty years ago when I painted the illustrations and wrote the text. The current owner purchased it in an auction and intends to resell it…