Harvest at Crummock, 1947 - Duke and Royal by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973) [PRINT]:Greeting Card everyday lives had not left

everyday lives had not left him

and asking how current arguments over care for the environment or expressions of the nation resonate with earlier histories and geographies

He gave the mountain slopes a deep plum colour with veils of translucent mist toward the summit

long-lasting and non-abrasive

and the exhaustion of being human evoke the spacious

Harvest at Crummock, 1947 - Duke and Royal by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973) [PRINT]:Greeting Card everyday lives had not leftOphelias mother Winifred Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell is usually referred to as a society animal painter. She was one of three sisters from a London family; Dorothea, who owned the house in St. Johns Wood where Ophelia grew up, also had a large property on the outskirts of Windermere, hence the Lake District connection. There is a reference to Winifred in Heaton Coopers autobiography Mountain Painter in which he notes that she was "a painter of animals,