Diana Reynell
Diana Reynell (9 September 1933 – 1 August 2017) was a leading grotto designer and restorer.
Early life
Reynell was born Diana Baldwin on 9 September 1933 to Joseph Baldwin, an Oxfordshire bank manager, and his wife. Diana's mother and brother died in childbirth when she was three years old. She was educated at schools in Witney and Faringdon in Oxfordshire and The Kingsley School in Warwickshire. She subsequently studied at an art school in Oxford ( but not The Ruskin ) where she met her future husband Antony Reynell.[1]
Career
After her marriage in 1955, Reynell joined her husband at Marlborough College where he taught classics and she taught jewellery design. The couple had four children.[1]
Reynell's first grotto restoration was of a room dug into the Marlborough Mound for Lady Hertford at Marlborough College.[1]
In the late-1980s, she created the shellwork in the subterranean grotto at Leeds Castle and restored the grotto at Hampton Court House.[2][3]
Death
Reynell died on 1 August 2017 from the effects of lung cancer and Parkinson's disease.[1] She had a beautiful home burial in her garden attended by all her family and friends in glorious sunshine .
References
- ^ a b c d Diana Reynell. The Times, 5 September 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
- ^ Diana Reynell - Summary. Parks & Gardens UK. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^ "Gardening: Caverns of the mind: Poised between reality and illusion, the grotto casts a powerful spell on the imagination. Guided by the leading restorers of such marvels of ingenuity, Diana Potter enters the enchanted vaults of Painshill (CORRECTED)". The Independent. Archived from the original on September 8, 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
External links
- Trucco, Terry (18 August 1988). "A Stone Carver Finds His Niche in Grottoes Old and New". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
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