I am not sure the Blounts would have approved, but they looked quite nice.
Merry Christmas!
Images from Blount, Godfrey, Arbor Vitae, 1899 and Blount, Ethel, Gifts of St Nicholas |
A blog recording the Peasant Arts movement in Haslemere, Surrey, UK around the early 1900s, and it's founders Joseph King, Maude Egerton King, Godfrey Blount, Ethel Blount and Greville MacDonald. Arts and crafts, religion, literature, architecture, suffragettes, family trees, local locations and strong beliefs, this story has it all. Over a century later, their promotion of the pleasures of homemade craft is still relevant today.
Images from Blount, Godfrey, Arbor Vitae, 1899 and Blount, Ethel, Gifts of St Nicholas |
They are brilliant! I`m sure the Blounts would have approved, especially as you live where they created so much of their art.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Maybe next Christmas there will be some Peasant Arts Christmas cards issued by Haslemere Museum.
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