Eileen Soper's Book of Badgers by Duff Hart-Davis

Eileen Soper's Book of Badgers by Duff Hart-Davis

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When Eileen Soper died in 1990, executors found a profusion of watercolours and a large number of her drawings at her home in Hertfordshire. It was as a painter of wildlife - the aspect this book concentrates on - that she came into her own. This is the sequel to "Wildings".

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Eileen Soper's Book of Badgers by Duff Hart-Davis

When Eileen Soper died in March 1990, executors found a profusion of watercolours and a large number of her drawings at her home in Hertfordshire, as well as hundreds of paintings by her father George Soper, the celebrated horse-artist, who had died in 1942. Eileen was hailed as a child prodigy when she had two etchings hung by the Royal Academy at the age of only 15. Later she developed into an accomplished book-illustrator, enjoying a long and fruitful relationship with Enid Blyton. Yet it was as an observer and painter of wildlife that she really came into her own. 500 hours of patient study went into her book "When Badgers Wake". Much of her work was done in the half-wild garden which surrounded Wildings, her home near Welwyn. Later in her life she became more reclusive, but her love of wildlife can be seen in the watercolours which appear in this book. This book is the sequel to "Wildings".
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ISBN 13 9781854871343
ISBN 10 185487134X
Title Eileen Soper's Book of Badgers
Author Duff Hart-Davis
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 1992-09-28
Number of pages 144
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.