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Moffatt Vintage flower Fairy Prints, is a Cornish based company specializing in antique prints of the lovely Flower Fairy prints and art of Cicely Mary Barker. Botanically accurate and modelled from life, each Flower Fairy prints expresses the spirit of the flower in childlike fairy form, and is a miniature masterpiece. The flower fairy prints are all guaranteed to be between fifty and eighty years old and are of collectors quality. Variations in price are due to rarity, not differences in quality. Flower Fairy prints, with their soft and gentle colours reminiscent of the English countryside and cottage gardens, make perfect and unusual gifts for all ages. From Christenings to Christmas, a vintage Flower Fairy print is a gift to be treasured forever. To see all 168 Flower Fairies in the collection, just click on Flower Fairy print Gallery. New Baby in the Family? We have boy fairies and girl fairies – and some prints feature baby fairies, too. A Flower Fairy print makes a charming addition to any nursery and will quickly become a familiar feature of the little one’s world, still cherished and valued long after they’ve grown up and gone away. |
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Special Occasion for a Special Lady coming up? Daughter graduating? Grand-daughter coming of age? Granny’s birthday? And don’t forget Mother’s Day! Every girl, from seven to seventy, is always a fairy at heart. Give her her very own Flower Fairy to bring a little magic into her life. Choose her favourite flower or tree, or perhaps a print in her favourite colours. Just click on Flower Fairy Gallery to start your search. Once you have chosen your favourite, click on Mount Options to select which of the four different mount colours you’d like. |
All 168 Flower Fairies in the collection are featured on our site. Just click on one of the categories below to see them all.
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GALLERIES AVAILABLE Flower Fairy Prints listed alphabetically by Name : |
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ABOUT THE ARTIST - Cicely Mary Barker
Cicely Mary Barker was born in 1895 in Croydon, Surrey, England. A frail child, often ill, she was educated at home and from an early age showed an exceptional talent for drawing and painting. Her father encouraged her work and paid for her to study art through a correspondence course, which she followed at least until she was in her twenties, but this was her only training. Her first drawings were sold to Raphael Tuck when she was just 16 and Blackie accepted her first fairy book, Flower Fairies of the Spring, for publication in 1923. This was followed by six other Flower Fairies books over the years.
Cicely Mary Barker’s sister, Dorothy, ran a kindergarten in their house and Cicely used the children in the school as her models, matching the character and appearance of the child to the character and appearance of the flower. Likewise, every fairy costume echoes the characteristics of the flower featured in a meticulous way, and the fairies themselves range from the cheeky little Heather boy racing over the moors to the graceful Willow fairy, dreamily gazing into quiet waters. Never sentimental, each picture fuses fantasy and reality in a unique portrait of fairy child and flower. Cicely Mary Barker died in 1973 but her remarkable talent lives on, her gentle Flower Fairies touching the heart still in our harsher modern age.
1B Berrycoombe
Road, Bodmin, Cornwall PL31 2NS
Tel: 01208 73574
