Must check spellings. Know I’ve got liver custard right it’s ingrained on my memory just like Olafur Eliasson’s flashbulb message saying Utopia from a few years back at the Venice Biennale. “Magic moments” as Euan Uglow used to call them, happen in the oddest of places in the oddest of ways, but they do happen.
Link to Olafur Eliasson :https://www.olafureliasson.net/
Link to Euan Uglow :https://www.piano-nobile.com/artists/1103-euan-uglow/biography/
by William Nicholson
oil on canvas, 1920
On display at Attingham Park, Shrewsbury
NPG 3334
Gertrude Jekyll was described by her father as a “queer sort of fish” and was sent by her parents to The Kensington Art School the precursor to The RCA. The RCA was housed in a building that was engulfed when the V & A was established.
Miss Jekyll’s Gardening Boots
1920
I wonder around the V&A with The RCA Dip.Grad.
Watts another painter of the Leyton era was married to another Artist who was a student of Leyton’s when he was the principal of the Art School.
Gertrude was Lutyens’s sister in law via his wife Agnes, also a painter amongst other things. Gertrude often collaborated with Lutyens on projects.
I quite liked this piece I found on the web:
https://www.thecultureconcept.com/edwin-lutyens-and-gertrude-jekyll-design-for-living
Agnes Lutyens wrote a cook book which is where I found the recipe for Liver Custard. Their gatherings must have been fun, although I may have passed on the food.
Link for the book:
http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/kitchen-essays.html
I think about the changes in the last 150 years in the V&A and the new collaborations of these two now seemingly separate institutions now have with each other.
I Found this post on the V&A web Site. It was written by second-year student, Melissa Tyler, on the V&A/RCA History of Design MA. It is again linked to our Artifact project.
Reimagining Objects: A History of Design Exhibition
So not so far apart.
P.S. Watts very Kindly donated his personal portrait collection to the nation which was the beginning for the basis for the now well established NPG, Where it so happens Mr. David Hockney alumni student of the RCA shall have a show on February 2020. Love joining the dots.
Sarah Chalkie Cloonan 