身份：英國(guó)著名的女畫家
出生地：66 Waddon Road in Croydon, Surrey, England
家庭背景：家中的小女兒，有一個(gè)大她兩歲的姐姐——Dorothy Oswald Barker。父親Walter Barker, 是一個(gè)業(yè)余的藝術(shù)家（a partner in a seed supply company and an amateur artist）狡门，母親Mary Eleanor (Oswald) Barker醋火。
兒時(shí)患有癲癇癥（epileptic）瘟栖，無法上學(xué)渊啰，只能在家接受教育贯卦，并通過閱讀和繪畫消磨大部分時(shí)間爷耀。Kate Greenaway 和 Randolph Caldecott對(duì)她后來作品影響很大甘桑。
Life Line：
1895年6月28日，出生在英國(guó)（Croydon, Surrey, England）
1908年歹叮，Cicely13歲時(shí)跑杭，她的父親參加了Croydon藝術(shù)社團(tuán)，她也因此學(xué)習(xí)了專業(yè)的藝術(shù)課程咆耿。參加了the Croydon School of Art的晚間課程（evening class）
15歲時(shí)德谅，她的花仙作品就被刊登在雜志、賀卡和明信片上萨螺。
1911年 Raphael Tuck & Sons bought four of Barker's "little drawings" for half a sovereign,[3] and published them as postcards.作品被買下并出版窄做，時(shí)年16歲。
同年十月慰技，她贏得了一個(gè)海報(bào)比賽（the Croydon Art Society's poster competition）的第二名椭盏，被吸納成為Croydon藝術(shù)社團(tuán)中最年輕的成員。In October 1911, she won second prize in the Croydon Art Society's poster competition, and shortly afterward was elected the youngest member of the Society.[2]
16歲時(shí)吻商，Cicely因出色的繪畫能力被吸納成為Croydon藝術(shù)社團(tuán)中最年輕的成員掏颊。這個(gè)時(shí)候，根據(jù)詹姆斯?馬修?巴利小說改編的戲劇[彼得?潘]上演“剩瑪麗巴克的花仙子精靈一時(shí)備受喜愛◎遣眨瑪麗巴克喜愛著精靈，她全神灌注的投入到了花仙子精靈的創(chuàng)作中掩蛤，更多的花仙子在她的筆下?lián)碛辛松?/p>
1912枉昏，不幸又一次降臨，她的父親去世了揍鸟。父親的離世使這個(gè)家庭陷入了困境⌒至眩瑪麗巴克的繪畫收入成了這個(gè)家庭最主要的經(jīng)濟(jì)來源【浜担瑪麗巴克努力的畫著，向雜志投詩畫稿晰奖，以支撐起姐姐和母親的生活谈撒。Following her father’s death in June 1912, the seventeen-year-old Barker submitted art and poetry to My Magazine, Child’s Own, Leading Strings, and Raphael Tuck annuals in an effort to support both her mother and sister.[2] Her sister Dorothy taught kindergarten in two private schools before opening a kindergarten at home. She brought in some money for the family's support while supervising the household.[5]在開幼兒園之前，她的姐姐在兩所私立學(xué)校教幼兒園匾南，給家里帶來了一些收入啃匿。。蛆楞。
1912年6月溯乒，她的父親離世了。17歲的瑪麗巴克向雜志投稿豹爹，用她的畫作努力地支撐著母親和姐姐的生活裆悄。
Middle years中年生活
In the late 1920s, Barker began to doubt she was doing enough for the church and considered focusing solely on sacred works. Family and friends recommended she continue secular and sacred works, which she did.[8]
Barker continued to attend evening classes at the Croydon Art School between the 1920s and the 1940s, eventually receiving a teaching position. She took sketching trips to Amberley and Storrington in Sussex and to Cornwall and the southern coast with family and friends. She visited and stayed with artist Margaret Tarrant in Gomshall, Surrey and with family in Ugglebarnby, Near Whitby, North Yorkshire.
In 1940, the Barker's live-in maid retired, and Dorothy Barker closed her school at the back of the house in The Waldrons. She continued to supervise the household, and to give both her mother and sister the care they needed. Dorothy and her sister collaborated upon only two books: Our Darling's First Book and the Christian-themed, He Leadeth Me. In 1954 Dorothy Barker died of a heart attack. Barker was unable to pursue her art to any significant extent following her sister's death, as all the care of her aged mother devolved upon her, but she did manage to begin planning a stained glass window design in her sister's memory for St. Edmund's, Pitlake.[9]
1923年，她的畫作《flower fairies of the spring》正式出版臂聋。更多人喜歡了她的花仙子」饧冢瑪麗巴克同時(shí)開始了字母表精靈的創(chuàng)作。每個(gè)字母都會(huì)有一個(gè)對(duì)應(yīng)的花仙孩等，孩子們?nèi)绱讼矏圻@些花精靈艾君。這成為了瑪麗巴克最為重要的創(chuàng)作。直到現(xiàn)在孩子們還在使用這些帶有花仙精靈的字母表肄方。
Cicely隨后繪制了更多花仙系列:Flower Fairies of the Summer腻贰、Flower Fairies of the Autumn、Flower Fairies of the Winter扒秸、Fairies of the Trees、Flower Fairies of the Garden冀瓦、Flower Fairies of the Wayside伴奥、The Flower Fairy Alphabet。除了花仙系列翼闽，Cicely也為童書繪制了插畫拾徙，如A Little Book of Old Rhymes、Groundsel and Necklaces感局、以及The Lord of the Rushie River等∧岱龋現(xiàn)在，除了印刷品外询微，Cicely的小花仙還被制作成各種禮品像框崖瞭、瓷偶、水晶球等擺撑毛∈榫郏花仙圖案也在DIY的立體紙雕和十字繡等出現(xiàn)。
In 1924, the family moved into a four-level, semi-detached Victorian house at 23 The Waldrons.
第二次世界大戰(zhàn)爆發(fā)，世界上成百上千萬的兒童流離失所雌续，瑪麗巴克的花仙子帶著治愈的翅膀斩个，從英國(guó)的倫敦飛到了世界各地。瑪麗巴克用一個(gè)花仙子的夢(mèng)治愈了全世界的兒童驯杜。畫中明麗的色彩受啥，和歡樂的氛圍，給予了每個(gè)孩子希望和憧憬鸽心。那些慘烈的畫面逐漸淡沒在她的畫中滚局。
童年時(shí)，Cicely非常喜歡Kate Greenaway插畫中的仙女再悼，喜歡畫精靈花仙核畴。她的花仙是一群有著各色蝴蝶翅膀的人間兒童，帶著笑意在花叢中嬉戲冲九。無論畫的是哪個(gè)季節(jié)谤草，畫面色彩總是帶著舊氣的暖色調(diào)，一如深藏人心的美好傳說莺奸。
疾病使她不能像其他的孩子一樣丑孩，到學(xué)校里去讀書。病中的瑪麗巴克灭贷，渴望享受集體生活和知識(shí)殿堂帶來的心靈愉悅温学。
但生活的殘酷讓這個(gè)愿望成為了她一生不能實(shí)現(xiàn)的一個(gè)夢(mèng)想。她的父親甚疟，鐘情繪畫仗岖，是croydon藝術(shù)團(tuán)的成員。良好的家庭熏陶览妖，給予了瑪麗巴克最好的繪畫啟蒙轧拄，父親為她請(qǐng)了家庭女教師，瑪麗巴克得以在家中完成學(xué)業(yè)讽膏。
此時(shí)瑪麗巴克喜歡上了凱特.格里納韋（Kate Greenaway）的童書插畫檩电，她被這位維多利亞時(shí)代最著名的插畫師，圖文并茂的繪畫形式吸引府树，同時(shí)內(nèi)心被這些畫的清新優(yōu)雅感染俐末。
瑪麗巴克喜歡繪畫，疾病使她不能擁有自由的童年奄侠，繪畫卻以另一種形式打開了她心靈深處的另一扇大門卓箫。她的腦海中總是飄飛著一些美麗的精靈，他們長(zhǎng)著美麗的翅膀垄潮，在花間飛舞丽柿，他們都有陽光燦爛的容顏恢准，在玩耍嬉戲，天真爛漫甫题。這可能是世界上最動(dòng)人的圖畫了馁筐！瑪麗巴克開始了她的花仙子人生之旅。她想把這些精靈畫了下來坠非。父親支持她的想法敏沉，帶她到一所專業(yè)學(xué)校，學(xué)習(xí)了一段時(shí)間炎码。
熱愛讓瑪麗巴克忘卻了病痛盟迟，花中的精靈們?cè)谒墓P下一個(gè)個(gè)誕生。他們的眼睛里映上世界的甜美潦闲，他們和她似乎在說話攒菠，感謝她把他們創(chuàng)造的這么美，他們也向看過他們的人們?cè)儐枮槭裁茨悴婚_心歉闰，他們告訴這個(gè)世界辖众，快樂是人生的源泉。
Later life and death[edit]
Detail of memorial to Cicely Mary Barker at Park Hill, Croydon
Barker's mother died in 1960, and, in 1961, Barker moved from 23 The Waldrons to 6 Duppas Avenue in Croydon. She restored a maisonette in Storrington, Sussex, England, bequeathed by her friend Edith Major, and named it St. Andrew's. After taking up residence, her health began to deteriorate. She was in and out of nursing and convalescent homes, and tended by relatives and friends.[10]
Barker died at Worthing Hospital on 16 February 1973, aged 77 years.[2] Two funeral services were held – one in Storrington Church and one in Barker's maisonette. Her ashes were scattered in Storrington churchyard.[10] In 1989, Frederick Warne, a division of Penguin Books since 1983, acquired the Flower Fairies properties.[11]
1973年2月16日和敬，Mary Barker 在她的故鄉(xiāng)逝世凹炸。直到現(xiàn)在全世界都還在使用這些花仙子的夢(mèng)境。皮包昼弟，陶瓷啤它，琉璃，花仙子們永恒的治愈著世界舱痘。
這就是瑪麗巴克的故事变骡，命運(yùn)給予了她缺陷，她卻用深情相擁治愈了全世界芭逝，讓她和別人都成為完美塌碌。那么以此獻(xiàn)給瑪麗巴克和她的花仙子吧！
原文鏈接：http://www.reibang.com/p/8c4ce9ea0aef
圖片來源：Flower Fairy Prints by Cicely Mary Barker. All 168 Vintage flower fairies for sale.?
Cicely Mary Barker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia?
官網(wǎng)——Flower Fairies · New website coming soon
參考文獻(xiàn) Bibliography
Laing, Jane (1995), Cicely Mary Barker and Her Art, Frederick Warne & Co., ISBN 0-7232-4051-5
