About the Author

Cicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, South London, England, in 1895 and died in 1973.

She found international acclaim as an artist, with her delightful Flower Fairies books, the first of which, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was printed in 1923.

Cicely trained at the Croydon School of Art, starting at age 13, and began her professional career - drawing and painting for greeting cards and children's magazines.

A gifted artist in water colours, oils, pastels, as well as pen and ink, she was inspired by the popularity of fairies in the early twentieth-century.

Her work is an amazing combination of both realism and fantasy, as she studied and worked hard to make her drawings and paintings as close to the natural world as possible.

Cicely combined her impressive artistic talent with a lively and playful world of magic and imagination.

Her Flower Fairies books were re-originated in 1990.

CROYDON’S SECRET CELEBRITY ARTIST