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Four Hedges by Clare Leighton (eBook)
‘Phrases and images fill you with delight … This is the most honest writing I’ve ever read’ Carol Klein
Clare Leighton was one of the finest engravers of the twentieth century. In the 1930s, when she settled in the countryside with her long-term partner, the political journalist Henry Noel Brailsford, she turned her creativity to the land. Gardening became her passion. Her obsession. This is the story of the garden she carved from meadowland deep in the Chiltern Hills.
Ebook edition: Once purchased, you can download the zip file which contains three files: ePub (Most common ebook format), PDF (accessible file format) and Mobi (Amazon kindle devices).
Also available as a Nature Classic paperback here
Read the full introduction by Carol Klein
Illustrated with 84 wood engravings by Clare Leighton
£8.00
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Clare Leighton was born in London and studied at Brighton, Slade and Central schools of art. An accomplished writer, designer and artist, she is best known as a wood engraver who inspired a revival of the craft in Britain and North America. She illustrated books by Thomas Hardy, Gilbert White and Henry David Thoreau, as well as her own Four Hedges, Country Matters, The Farmer’s Year and Southern Harvest. She also created designs for Wedgewood and several stained glass windows for churches in New England. In 1939 she emigrated to America and settled in North Carolina, where she taught at Duke University and was elected to the National Academy.
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