![]() ![]() Her parents were artistic her mother wrote and painted and her father was an amateur playwright. In its review, the Times commented favourably on the present work, while The Morning Post remarked upon its 'stately purity'.K Mc* * *Isabel Codrington Pyke Nott was born at Bydown, Swimbridge, in Devon, the daughter of the local squire. Its centralised, layered composition and its motif, recall the late, decorative classical pergolas of artists such as Charles Sims, while the lilies, inevitably hark back to Wildean aestheticism. Others in the series were simple still-lifes, while the present canvas with its statuary and swathe of flowering lilies depicts the focal point of a formal garden. Priced at 55 gns in the exhibition, The Lily Garden is likely to have been its centre-piece, and the largest and most important of her flower paintings. ![]() Despite her growing eyesight problems, she was regarded as 'a colourist' who employs a 'broad touch with excellent effect'. ~ Critics who recalled Codrington's earlier successes as a figure painter regarded her exhibition of flower paintings in 1935 as a new departure.
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