Review Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 – revelations and puzzling omissions
Mary Delany (1700-88) was a witty memoirist aged 72 when she essentially invented paper collage in Britain. Noticing the similarity between a geranium and a piece of red paper, she took her scissors and cut out a petal freehand. The exquisite plant that grew from Delany’s work looked so exactly like a watercolor that people … Read more