Thinking the Plant
The Watercolour Drawings of Rebecca John
$89.05
- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
22 October 2020
Summary
Rebecca John was born into a family of painters, the most famous among them being her grandfather, Augustus John, and her great-aunt, Gwen John. And the last thing she wanted was to become a painter herself. So how did this happen?
In Thinking the Plant she traces the path that led to her beautiful botanical watercolours. She takes us through her childhood – the cottage in the Cotswolds ‘where I first became intensely aware of nature in its wild state’, her grandfather’s home…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910258316 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1910258318 |
| Author: | Rebecca John |
| Publisher: | Gemini Books Group Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pimpernel Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 591g |
| Dimensions: | 170mm x 230mm |
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Critics Review
“Remarkable work…the book is a thing of beauty in itself and the watercolours passionate as well as delicate…so intensely observed that one has to look at them with full absorption too, and that prints them on the mind’s eye.” – Marina Warner
“A blend of diary entries, notes and delicate watercolour illustrations.” * Financial Times *
“Thinking the Plant is above all, a memoir of the rhythms and momentum of Rebecca John’s working life.” * Burlington Magazine *
Rebecca John
Rebecca John is a celebrated botanical painter whose work has been exhibited widely in the UK and the US and also in Italy and Japan. Her work is represented in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, and in private collections worldwide. With Michael Holroyd, she edited the letters of her grandmother, Ida John, published in 2017 as The Good Bohemian (Bloomsbury). She lives in London.
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