Gwendoline Annie Copping

I have never been satisfied with my photos. I can photograph flowers reasonably well but my pendants have always been a mystery, that is until I was going through some of my Grandma's unfinished watercolours and had the idea to use them as a backdrop for my work.
Born  1911 Gwendoline Annie Copping my Grandma was always fascinated by art, especially watercolours.

Her work was mostly floral, her favourites were white roses (I made sure I had white roses in my wedding bouquet to remember her), she was fascinated by ikebana, most of her work showed displays of various flowers.

Sometimes she would just focus on one bloom:

I love the pencil sketches in this piece, it would have been beautiful if she had finished it:

Other pieces were obviously just for practise:

She became Gwendoline Annie Collins when she married my Grandfather but sadly he died in 1954 of heart failure when my Dad was just young. She found solace in her art and would apparently disappear out all day painting. She married again later in life and became Gwendoline Pope which is why her remaining pieces are all signed GA Pope.

Whilst most of her work was quite traditional she also appreciated more modern art. We have a couple of her more experimental pieces, I love this one entitled 'Thursday's Child':

I like to think that my Grandma would be proud of my work, she was definitely chuffed when I won a flower painting competition in my early teens and had my painting of bindweed published in a calender.