My grandmother was an artist too. She studied wood-carving around the turn of the century- a daring thing for a young Edwardian woman to do- and though she never practised professionally- marriage and the upbringing of children intervened- she never lost that urge to be making things- watercolour paintings, stuffed toys, jam....
I have a tiger's head she carved as a young woman. In a house fire it's probably the first thing I'd rescue.
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My grandmother was an artist too. She studied wood-carving around the turn of the century- a daring thing for a young Edwardian woman to do- and though she never practised professionally- marriage and the upbringing of children intervened- she never lost that urge to be making things- watercolour paintings, stuffed toys, jam....
I have a tiger's head she carved as a young woman. In a house fire it's probably the first thing I'd rescue.