Past and present pupils of leading girls’ school St Mary’s Calne exhibited together for the first time in the West End 
this October.
The Consider the Lilies exhibition – named after the Wiltshire school’s lily emblem – ran from October 29 to November 1 at Gallery 27 in Cork Street, W1, in aid of the Calne Foundation Trust.
It brought together the work of 34 St Mary’s Calne old girl artists including Domenica de Ferranti, Phoebe Dickinson, Sarah Cosby, Lucy Kent and Trudy Montgomery with the work of a number of current pupils.
Domenica, an award-winning sculptress and artist, won the Jackson Sculpture Prize from the Chelsea Arts Society in 2010, while Phoebe, daughter of famed art dealer Simon Dickinson, is well-known for her portraits and Sarah has won acclaim for her portraits of people and animals.
Her latest portrait of London Mayor Boris Johnson featured in the show.
The exhibition was curated by St Mary’s old girl Endellion Lycett-Green whose renowned work, which focuses on nature, also featured.
More recent old girls including Daisy Sims-Hilditch, a finalist in the Saatchi Gallery Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools in 2011, also showed her work.
Daisy’s portrait of the current headmistress, Dr Helen Wright, was unveiled publicly for the first time on Monday 29 October.
Dr Wright, who has headed the Wiltshire school for nearly a decade, is leaving at the end of the year to head Ascham School in Sydney. By tradition, all former Heads have a portrait hanging at the school.
Daisy was commissioned to depict Dr Wright following her phenomenal success in the Sunday Telegraph Art Prize.
Other artists included Felicity Ashton, Arabella Brooke, Arabella Dorman, Milly Gauntlett, Jessica Rose Milton, Margaret Tatton-Brown and Sasha Van Vredenburch.