The Whole Story: Painting more than just the flowers Eithne Strong or a walk with a

or a walk with a lover among wildflowers in Vermont

In it Jonathan Miles offers a commentary on the radical Catholicism of Gill and on the community’s Arts and Crafts-style focus on the handmade at its home in a former monastery

it is beautifully balanced with fine humour – the yin and yang of a life well-lived

an unerring ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary

and others become actors

The Whole Story: Painting more than just the flowers Eithne Strong or a walk with aDiscover a whole new realm of botanical painting the natural life forms that coexist with flowering plants, revealed in exquisite detail. Traditionally, botanical art has focused on the flowers, leaves and form of plants. They are depicted in solitary glory on a page, divorced from the life forms that live alongside them in nature. But award winning UK botanical painter, Christina Hart Davies, believes passionately that flowers are only part of the