Please note that all these gardens are in private ownership and therefore are not open to the public. The artists have been placed into two groups, an ‘A’ and a ‘B’ list. Those in the ‘A’ group had the greater connections with their gardens and lived in the county for longer periods. The ‘B’ group...Read More

AMERSHAM WOMEN ARTISTS 1 The Tithe Barn, Chesham Bois & The Richardson Sisters   Josephine, Caroline (Car) and Mona were born into a military family stationed in South Africa and later, India, their grandfather Sir John Richardson had been a notable naval surgeon, naturalist, and Arctic explorer. The girl’s earliest memories were of an Indian...Read More

This volunteer project was inspired by research previously undertaken by Sarah Gray into the Buckinghamshire gardens of the wood engraver Clare Leighton and the painter John Nash.Given the proximity of the county to London, we realised that a considerable number of gardens might survive that relate to other local artists, particularly from the early to mid-twentieth...Read More