Helen Purser showcases the shell pictures of one of Ireland’s talented conchologists, Beatrice Somerville-Large
Beatrice ‘Sammy’ Sherlock was born in Lahore, then part of India, to an artistic family, and as a child came to live in Ireland. Her mother, Marjorie Sherlock (née Ross), was a watercolourist and oil painter, much of whose work was lost in the fire that engulfed the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1916. Beatrice learned to embroider her mother’s outlines of animals and birds on the creamy-white woollen báinín fabric from the West of Ireland.
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