Flower of Understanding by Ophelia Gordon Bell (1915 - 1975)

Flower of Understanding by Ophelia Gordon Bell (1915 - 1975)Ophelia Gordon Bell was born in London in 1915 but spent much of her childhood in the Lake District. In her mid teens Ophelia was well on the way to becoming an accomplished artist in her own right, studying at Regent Street Polytechnic Sculpture School in London where she worked with stone, wood, metal, clay and plaster. By the age of 23 Ophelia had already exhibited her work at the Royal Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and the

Part gripping memoir

It was in September 1898 that he first began to watch the charcoal burners at work in the woodland and coppices around Hawkshead"

word and image walk arm in arm

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and gazing upward at the lean crags standing boldly out from the long smooth slopes of dazzling white

where the chief height of Silver Howe rises high above one end of Rydal water

a splendid view-point over the lake in itself

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