<< back

Helen Bradley MBE 1900-1979

Please scroll down for details and prices

Helen Bradley -

"Isn't It Kind" (The Enchanted Garden)

Oil on Board
16¼ x 20¼ ins (41.28 x 51.44 cms)
Signed & Dated & Monogram

Sorry this item is sold

Literature

Helen Bradley's Lancashire by Ina Taylor, illustration and text page 35

General Notes


*Oh Jane, isn't it kind of Mr Taylor to bring our shawls'
said Aunt Frances.
"Indeed it is', said
Mother, but Miss Carter (who wore Pink) took her pink shawl with a haughty 'Thank you'
from Mr Taylor (the Bank Manager). It was a lovely April evening and everyone agreed we should go into the enchanted garden and see the wild cherry blossom and also gather bunches of daffodils to take back to Grandma.
As we turned to walk home Aunt Charlotte whispered 'Look he's taken her arm, perhaps he'll propose', but he mustn't have done because she was still huffy and, 'Oh dear,'
said Mother, it's only our first week of the holidays and we were at Blackpool in the year 1908.

This is the first picture mother painted with a pink sky. My father didn't like it and said it looked ridiculous. I'd visited mother that day and as I went into her studio the first thing I saw was this beautiful pink picture on the easel.
'Oh mum' I said 'that's the prettiest
picture I've ever seen'. Mother lifted it off the easel and handed it to me. 'Here' she said 'Its yours, you can take it home with you.' I gave it to my daughter and son-in-law for a wedding present in 1981.
Written by the artist's daughter, Joan Elizabeth Morton, March 1994.

ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS ITEM

Name is a required field.

Email is a required field.

Request is a required field.

Featured Artist

LUCI MANFREDI

This is a selection of works we have for sale by Luci Manfredi, an artist new to the gallery.

View Artist »

General Information

Opening Times
Tues - Sat 10.00am - 5.00 pm
All other times by appointment

Contact

Clark Art Ltd
155, Ashley Road, Hale
Cheshire, WA14 2UW

Tel: +44 (0)161 929 5150
Mobile: +44 (0)7973 755680
Email: art@clark-art.co.uk