Wild Cat

A solitary, fiercely private creator who answered to no one.

Beatrix Potter lived largely on her own terms — rejecting the conventional path expected of a Victorian woman, she retreated to the Lake District, bought farms, and worked quietly and obsessively on her craft far from the literary establishment. Her meticulous, self-directed nature and fierce independence (she was also a serious scientific illustrator and conservationist, largely unrecognised in her lifetime) speak to the wild-cat's solitary creativity and comfort in its own company. Like the wild-cat, she was gentle in her work but utterly uncompromising in how she lived.