She also enrolled in a Correspondence Art course which she continued until 1918. In 1908, when Cicely was 13, her father enrolled her at the Croydon Art Society, where they both exhibited work. She was unable to go to school, so she was educated at home and spent much of her time on her own, reading and drawing. She suffered from epilepsy as a child and remained physically delicate for most of her life. Her principal influence, however, which she duly credited, was the artwork of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.Ĭicely Mary Barker was born in 1895 in Croydon, England. As a child, she was greatly influenced by the works of the illustrator Kate Greenaway, whom she assiduously copied in her formative years. Walter Barker and Mary Eleanor (Oswald) BarkerĬicely Mary Barker (28 June 1895 – 16 February 1973) was the illustrator who created the famous Flower Fairies, in the shape of ethereal smiling children with butterfly wings. Out of Great Tribulation and other Christian-themed works in various British churches and chapels The Flower Fairies of the Spring (1923) and other Flower Fairy books Triptychs and other works for the Anglican church Various publishers but chiefly Blackie and Son LimitedĬommissions from various British dioceses Ashes spread in the churchyard at Storrington, Sussex, England
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