Thinking the Plant
Thinking the Plant 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. So how did this happen? And the…
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Thinking the Plant
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. So how did this happen? And the last thing she wanted was to become a painter herself.
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 at Fryern Court in Hampshire and her parents' London house, both of them forever associated in her mind with 'growing things'; the Fine Jewellery course where 'I learned to draw - and to concentrate on things close up', her days as a picture researcher and her growing delight in botanical paintings. In Thinking the Plant she traces the path that led to her beautiful botanical watercolours. Rebecca John was in her thirties when she began to 'make tentative pencil studies of flowering plants'. In