Topaz Marigold on Chair by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973) Books - Adventure The counterpoint of low light

The counterpoint of low light and long shadows enhance the grandeur of Yewbarrow and Great Gable at the head of the lake

Large ink reservoir

and fulfilment

By using fast-growing hemp fibre

showing how the familiar terms of debate regarding landscape and heritage are a product of the immediate post-war era

Topaz Marigold on Chair by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973) Books - Adventure The counterpoint of low lightOphelias mother Winifred Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell is usually referred to as a society animal painter. She was one of three sisters from a London family; Dorothea, who owned the house in St. Johns Wood where Ophelia grew up, also had a large property on the outskirts of Windermere, hence the Lake District connection. There is a reference to Winifred in Heaton Coopers autobiography Mountain Painter in which he notes that she was "a painter of animals,