Pauline Bewick

We recently posted about the new biography on Thomas Bewick, an engraver greatly admired by the young Brontës. So much so that Charlotte Brontë had yound Jane pore over it at the beginning of Jane Eyre.Today we have discovered that he has a descendant who is an artist as well: Pauline Bewick.

She is opening a new exhibition - The Seven Ages - at the Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland).

Speaking at the opening of 'The Seven Ages' exhibition by Pauline Bewick she stated “when the 19th century art critic Ruskin said that he knew ‘no drawing so subtle as Bewick's since the fifteenth century’ and when the young Jane Eyre described her response to Bewick, ‘Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting.’ We can believe they must have been referring, not to then contemporary artist Thomas Bewick, but to his descendent, Pauline, who is here with us today. If ever proof was needed that the thread of genius runs in families, it is here. From childhood he, too, had a delight in drawing and an intimate feeling for nature. His wonderful pictures of wildlife, also, are a marriage of technique and artistic form that produces images of great evocative power. But it is not Pauline’s artistic roots which we celebrate today but the growth and blossoming of her unique visual poetry with its sophistication and subtlety, its hovering impressions, its so-confident drama.

The complete press release for this exhibition can be found here.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Jane Eyre