Beatrix Potter Illustrator and Artist
Dragged darling husband out this afternoon, despite his protestations of tireness and the poor weather, to Dulwich Picture to seel the excellent exhibition on the life and works of Beatrix Potter. Who doesn't remember Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin as childhood friends? But there's so much more to Potter's work - her scientific observations and marvelous natural history and botanical drawings. I had no idea she was a Londoner born and bred, always having assumed that she was from the Lake District, where so many of her pictures take their inspiration from. Apparently the Lake District was just a frequent holiday destination.
Rod ended up enjoying the presentations and even confessed later that he was glad to have gone (possibly aided by his discovery that we didn't have to pay to get in as we're both Friends of the Gallery anyway!).
I thoroughly recommend a visit to the exhibition. It's not huge, so only takes an hour or so, and it's a wonderful way to spend and otherwise cold, dull and depressing Sunday afternoon. You'll have to be quick thought, the exhibition closes on 22nd January.
