ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION LEICESTER: OPEN 29

Miss Clara Knight’s Curious Collections: Seashore Specimens (x) has been selected for display at Leicester’s Open 29, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, 53 New Walk, Leicester, LE1 7EA.  0116 225 4900. From 15.12.18 to 2.2.19.

Miss Clara Knight’s Curious Collections: Seashore Specimens (x). Cast Handmade paper. ‘Father and I have unearthed many intriguing finds during our stay at the coast, but I declare this specimen to be my favourite thus far. Its colouring is quite remarkable. Indeed, I have never before encountered anything quite like it. Tomorrow I shall return to the rocky part of the seashore where I discovered this specimen, in the fervent hope that I may find another.’