EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 21 © 2017 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

91 and productive life than her sister. However, they often travelled together to the various places where Lucy was working, making a holiday of it. Sadly, Edith was simply not strong enough to accompany her sister when Lucy was offered what was for her the tour of a lifetime. Soon after the closure of the Kemp-Welch School for Drawing and Painting in 1926, Lucy took to the road with car and caravan to travel with Lord John Sanger’s Circus. She loved to paint the circus ponies, first in their tents, awaiting their turn in the ring, and then eventually parading around in front of the audience in all their plumed finery. Lucy’s tours with the circus continued throughout the 1930s and she considered them a real highlight in her life, exhibiting a large number of her circus paintings at the Arlington Galleries. Life after her “circus years”, as Lucy called them, must have seemed very quiet but her output remained