Exhibition Reveals Hidden Talent of Painter Yasmin David

A revelatory exhibition is placing painter Yasmin David at the heart of British landscape art, according to a report by The Guardian, decades after her work was largely confined to the private studio where she painted daily.

David was the daughter of writer Laurie Lee and the bohemian Lorna Garman, according to the report. Her daughter, Clio David, told The Guardian that her mother's studio, a wooden outbuilding in the apple orchards surrounding the family's childhood home in south Devon, was strictly off-limits during her upbringing.

The building had previously served as a dormitory for students at Dartington Hall, a progressive school where Clio's father taught during the 1960s, the report said.

"It was somewhere she went every day to paint and work, and no one was allowed near it," Clio David said, according to The Guardian. "The walls of our house were covered in her paintings, but the studio was a private place."

According to the report, the full extent of Yasmin David's talent did not become apparent until after her death, when a broader body of her work came to light. The new exhibition is described in the report as placing her firmly within the tradition of British landscape painting.

The Guardian's report did not specify further details on the exhibition's venue or dates.