JULIA PEYTON JONES

Peyton-Jones is best known for her pioneering work as the director of London’s Serpentine Galleries, where she made an outstanding contribution to international culture that earned her the title of Dame of the British Empire. But at heart, she is and has always been an artist. After twenty-five years at the Serpentine Galleries, she took a courageous change of direction, becoming a mother at the age of sixty-four, starting a new job at Thaddeus Ropac, a commercial gallery of international acclaim, and returning to her roots as an artist. Peyton-Jones saw her drawings as a way of depicting the ebb and flow of family life, recording the eventful and uneventful occurrences over twenty-four hours.