Flower Fairies by Cecile Mary Barker (123 works)

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Cicely Mary Barker was born on June 28, 1895 in England, Croyden, in the family of woodcarver Walter Barker and Mary Eleanor Oswald. As a child, Cecile suffered from epilepsy, from which she was later completely cured. The girl began to show creative inclinations early. Due to the illness of their daughter, the parents decided that it was better for the girl to receive an education at home. Cecile's father paid for correspondence courses in art, and also enrolled his daughter in an evening class at the Croyden School of Art, where Cecile herself began teaching in the 40s.

When the girl was 15 years old, her father showed several of his daughter’s works to the publisher Rafael Tuck. The works were purchased and printed in a series of postcards. Mr. Barker was very proud of his daughter and, until his death in 1912, he helped the young artist in every possible way to sell illustrations and poems (written by her) to various publishing houses.

Cecile Mary Barker is famous for her books "Flower Fairies". Barker's first book ("The Flower Fairies of Spring" was published only in 1923, in the wake of the wildly blossoming fashion for fairies. With the light hand of Queen Mary (a lover of dolls' houses), who sent postcards with cheerful and innocent fairies to her exhausted First World War friends, Barker's books (as many as 8 pieces) and postcards with her drawings became incredibly popular. It must be said that all the fairies were drawn by Barker from life, from the pupils of the kindergarten run by her sister. And the flowers and trees were reproduced with truly botanical accuracy.

The artist lived a long life: she died at the age of 77, on February 16, 1973.