A Chapter of Work
The Artist
She could draw before she could write stories.
Beatrix Potter the artist — her training, her technique, and the eye that made her illustrations outlast almost everything else from her century.
Hill Top Farm on PaperBeatrix Potter painted Hill Top — house, garden, and fields — with the same precise eye she once trained on fungi. Her own farm, studied like a specimen.The Lake District in Paint: Her Landscape WatercolorsBeatrix Potter's Lake District watercolours — Esthwaite glassy with cold, rain over Lingholm, Sawrey under snow. The fells she painted just for herself.