A Vivid Canvas - Audio Book

AUDIO BOOK - READ BY HILARY NEVILLE

'All the really happy days of my life are entirely connected with animals'.

Margaret Collyer was born in 1872 and lived a long and extremely full life. She studied at the Royal Academy in London and became a well-known artist, specialising in paintings of her great love - animals. In this autobiography, she takes the reader on a journey from her childhood to life as a successful artist, telling stories of her travels around Britain and the people for whom she painted in a charming and entertaining way.

After twenty years of living as an artist in London, she moved to the country for one year before the outbreak of the First World War, 'when all the world went mad'. She worked as a nurse in the Allied Hospital in Boulogne until 1915 when it closed, and in the same year decided to visit her sister in Kenya. Although she planned to return to England, she never did and lived the rest of her life there in Kenya, running a cattle farm. She was a truly remarkable and highly independent woman, and her tales of life in Africa will inspire and captivate.

This is the story of her life interwoven with her artwork, and is a wonderful record of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century worlds.