 The
Art of
Cicely Mary Barker
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The Song of
The Daffodil Fairy
I'm everyone's
darling; the blackbird and starling
Are shouting about me from blossoming boughs'
For I, the Lent Lily, the Daffy~down~dilly,
Have heard through the country the call to
arouse.
The orchards are ringing with voices a~singing
The praise of my petticoat, praise of my gown;
The children are playing, and hark!
They are saying
That Daffy~down~dilly is come up to town!
by Cicely
Mary Barker
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The Song of
The Dog~Violet Fairy
The wren and
robin hop around;
The Primrose~maids my neighbours be;
The sun has warmed the mossy grounds;
Where Spring has come, I too am found:by Cicely
Mary Barker
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The Song of
The Primrose Fairy
The Primrose
opens wide in spring;
Her scent is sweet and good:
It smells of every happy thing,
In sunny lane and wood.
I have not half the skill to sing,
And praise her as I should.
She's dear to folks throughout the land;
In her is nothing mean:
She freely spreads on every hand
Her petals pale and clean.
And though she's neither proud nor grand,
She is the Country Queen.
by Cicely
Mary Barker
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The Song of
The Lady's Smock Fairy
Where the
grass is damp and green,
Where the shallow streams are flowing,
Where the cowslip buds are showing,
I am seen.
Dainty as a fairy's frock,
White or mauve, of elfin sewing,
'Tis the meadow~maiden growing~~
Lady's~smock.
by Cicely
Mary Barker
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A little bit
about Ms. Barker
Cicely Mary
Barker was born on June 28 in Croydon, South
London in 1895, to Walter Barker and Mary Eleanor
Oswald. She was a frail child who suffered from
epilepsy, a condition which disappeared after
World War I and never afflicted her again.
Although she
received no formal art training, her natural
talent was recognized at age fifteen when a set
of 6 postcards she painted was accepted by a
publisher. Her father took examples of her work
to the publisher Raphael Tuck. They were bought
by them and published as a set of postcards. The
next year, she won second prize in a poster
competition run by the Croydon Art Society. She
was soon elected to life membership in the
Society, becoming their youngest member. She
which she continued to attend evening classes at
the Croydon Art Society into the 1940’s,
eventually earning a teaching position there.
The best known
books in which her first pictures were published
are 'Shakespeare's Children', 'Children of the
Allies' and the delightful early 'Fairy Cards'.
When Cicely's father died in 1912 she began to
dedicate her art to the Pre-Raphaelite movement
in the peaceful atmosphere of The Waldrons,
Cicely began to create the Flower Fairies.
Cicely Mary
Barker’s fairies were based on her knowledge
of plants and flowers and her artistic studies of
real children, each dressed to represent a
different flower. She always strove to reproduce
the flowers and plants in her paintings as
accurately as possible, often frequenting a local
garden for material. She never compiled a book of
winter flower fairies. It was not until 1985, 12
years after her death, that Flower Fairies of the
Winter was compiled from illustrations and poems
in her other 7 Flower Fairies books.
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