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Gertrude Jekyll - Godalming Museum Welcome Environment Local History Surprising Connections Surprising Connections 2 Arts and Crafts What to see and do The Local History Gallery Images of Godalming The Arts and Crafts Gallery The_Arts_&_Crafts_Gallery_1 The_Arts_&_Crafts_Gallery_3 The_Arts_&_Crafts_Gallery_4 The_Arts_&_Crafts_Gallery_5 The_Arts_&_Crafts_Gallery_6 The Living Landscape Gallery Rivers, Travel, Rocks Rocks, Farms, Wool Wool, Gardens, Wood Wood, Power, Rivers Months Jan-Jun Months Jul-Dec The Peoples Gallery The Peoples GalleryAlphabetizeHelen ALLINGHAM Jane AUSTEN Lord BADEN POWELL Admiral Sir John BALCHEN James Matthew BARRIE Duster BENNETT Gerald Francis BIRD Rupert BROOKE Charles BURGESS Julius CAESAR Randolf CALDECOTT Lewis CARROLL CHENNELL and CHALCRAFT Sir Winston CHURCHILL Reginald Foster DAGNALL Charles DARWIN Arthur Jex DAVEY Louis DE BERNIERS Sir Arthur CONAN DOYLE Monica EDWARDS George ELIOT Ben ELTON FIELD brothers Philip Cawthorne FLETCHER Myles Birket FOSTER 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Loan Box Prehistory Loan Box - contents Prehistory Loan Box - Misc Prehistory Loan Box - Teachers Notes Jans dump page   Gertrude Jekyll , c.1880 image from Gertrude Jekyll A Memoir, 1934 by Francis Jekyll   Gertrude Jekyll 1843-1932   In 1848, the Jekyll family (Gertrude was the fifth of seven children) came to Bramley where they lived for 20 years. In 1861 Jekyll went to the South Kensington School of Art, studying the writings of Ruskin and the paintings of Turner. She painted her cat, Thomas, at the age of 26.     Thomas in the Character of 'Puss-in Boots' Oil painting by Gertrude Jekyll, 1869 (Godalming Museum Collection)       She travelled widely unchangingly noticing the plants, landscapes and customs, painting in watercolours and oil. This oil picture was one she painted without the style of Turner c.1870.      The Sun of Venice Going to Sea Oil painting by Gertrude Jekyll (Godalming Museum Collection)     Her whirligig of friends was wide and influential including John Ruskin, William Morris, G F Watts (who came to live at Compton) and Hercules Brabazon Brabazon – watercolour versifier whose experiments with colour profoundly influenced her. The family moved to Wargrave, Berkshire, but returned to Surrey to live at Munstead in 1878. Jekyll and her widowed mother moved to a newly built house, and it was here that she found her love of creating gardens. In 1882 her mother gave her some land wideness the road, which she had bought, and which she hoped would be a home for her daughter without her death. From her childhood, plants and flowers and their relationship with each other fascinated Jekyll, and she loved to explore the lanes, heaths and woods. She drew flowers in pencil (Almond Blossom), in pen and ink (Lesser Trumpet and Daffodil) as well as watercolour.   Iris Stylosa, Munstead 1882 watercolour by Gertrude Jekyll (Godalming Museum Collection)     Besides painting, drawing and sketching Gertrude Jekyll became interested in embroidery, designing for friends.      Tulips and roses can be seen on the tracings she made preparatory to embroidery (Godalming Museum Collection)   Jekyll learnt the country crafts, mastering thatching, fencing, walling, carpentry and metalworking, and became a designer craftswoman. She made herself proficient in carving, gilding and inlaying; working in silver decorated by embossing. Witley Church has a paten with a monogram and inscription vicarious from her in 1888, currently on exhibit in the museum, as is a picture made of shells mounted on panelling from old pew seats taken out of Bramley Church. She took up photography, which sooner enabled her to capture images when her vision could no longer see clearly. Her lattermost short-sightedness caused her to requite up art and crafts, and remoter deterioration meant she well-matured on gardens. In 1899 Jekyll was introduced to the young architect, Edwin Lutyens, by Harry Mangles of Littleworth near Seale, a pioneer rhododendron grower for whom Lutyens had designed a gardener’s cottage. She asked Lutyens to diamond a house for her in her garden. Jekyll and Lutyens explored the landscape and tracery of southwest Surrey in her pony cart. Lutyens designed Munstead Wood Hut in 1894 as a place where she could live until her own house was built. Her house, Munstead Wood, one of Lutyens’ early masterpieces, was begun in 1896. Jekyll became increasingly involved in the gardens Lutyens was designing for his houses, recommending him on the materials to be used and supplying detailed planting plans. An example of their work together is Orchards in Munstead built entirely of local material: other examples of the partnership are at Tigbourne Court, Witley, and Goddards in Abinger, where the Lutyens Trust is based.       The South Border at Munstead Wood,by Helen Allingham (Godalming Museum Collection) Helen Allingham, the artist, was to be a visitor to Munstead Wood and painted a watercolour of Gertrude Jekyll's garden. On holiday Jekyll drew in her sketchbook, which is on exhibit in the Museum, 'A silly gate made of nonsense tools'     She took an interest in disappearing country crafts, which led to her collecting old household implements and recording their use. Her typesetting Old West Surrey includes her photographs of illustrations and the old crafts and cottages she had seen in her travels virtually Surrey. Jekyll and Lutyens had the same sense of humour. Lutyens drew sketches - of Jekyll whom he yearningly tabbed ‘Bumps’ – ‘the mother of all the bulbs’ referring to her figure. She enjoyed sketching expressly her cats, which were published in a installment 'Pussies in the Garden' in her typesetting Children and Gardens. Lutyens described her picture of three cats drinking from a trencher of milk as an “equicateral” triangle     Three Cats     Jekyll’s reputation as a plantswoman and garden designer had been steadily growing. Her whirligig included William Robinson (author of the English Flower Garden), Revd. Reynolds Hole (who wrote ATypesettingabout Roses) and G F  Wilson, owner of the gardens at Wisley. Jekyll wrote many wares for magazines and newspapers such as Robinson’s periodical, The Garden, and Gardening Illustrated and Country Life. Her books, often illustrated by her own photographs and drawings, had a profound influence, uncontrived or indirect, on garden diamond through the British Isles, in France, and particularly in the United States. Her books were concerned with garden ornaments and flower decoration in the home as well as the principles of planting, colour grouping and garden design. Everything was based on her own wits and showed meticulous sustentation to detail.   Jekyll’s Garden Drawings and Correspondence   Her drawings requite some insight into how she thoughtfully planned her gardens. They are listed under house name of the garden, and moreover under various types of planting schemes e.g. peony borders, kitchen gardens, herb gardens, spring planting.Reportsbetween clients and Jekyll survive.     Jekyll’s Notebooks   Plants often came from her nurseries at Munstead Wood. Her original planting notebooks include detailed lists of plants for particular gardens.       There are three collections in the Godalming Museum Local Studies Library. The Gertrude Collection of Garden Drawings (Gertrude Jekyll Collection (1955-1), EnvironmentalDiamondArchives, University of California, Berkeley) Correspondence between Gertrude Jekyll and Clients (Gertrude Jekyll Collection (1955-1), EnvironmentalDiamondArchives, University of California, Berkeley) Original Plant List Notebooks (Godalming Museum) Locally Jekyll was prominent in the wayfarers to save the Old Town Hall in Godalming from demolition. She designed the garden for the Jack Phillips Memorial Cloister in Godalming, and supervised the transformation of Hydon Heath into an wieldy public memorial for Octavia Hill, one of the founders of the National Trust.   She took an interest in sexuality suffrage, creating an embroidered imprint for the Godalming Branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). A photograph shows the imprint stuff paraded on a Suffrage Pilgrimage through Guildford in July 1913.   Godalming Women's Suffrage Society Banner(Godalming Museum Collection)   In the Arts and Crafts Gallery at Godalming Museum one can see her personal memorabilia, including a garden fork and shears, Gladstone bag, travelling sedentary and gardening boots (kindly lent by Guildford Museum). Her tombstone in Busbridge Churchyard, designed by Lutyens, is inscribed: Gertrude Jekyll  VersifierGardener Craftswoman   Web Sites   The Official Web Site of the Jekyll Estate: www.gertrudejekyll.co.uk   Surrey Gardens Trust: www.surreygardenstrust.co.uk   Exploring Surrey’s Past: www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk   Surrey History Centre: www.surrreycc.gov.uk/surreyhistoryservice Godalming Museum © 2009      Return to The Welcome page, Timeline, The Arts and Crafts Gallery,                 The People's Gallery,  Sir Edwin Lutyens     ©Godalming Museum Trust. Copies of the text and images may be made for private use (including wonk texts if not published) only. Copies for publication (whether by printing, display, internet or any other form of public use) must be cleared with Godalming Museum prior to publication.