Celia Rooke

Celia Mary Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes known as Celia Fiennes and later Celia Rooke, (10 March 1902 – 17 September 1998) was a British artist, notable as a printmaker and book illustrator.

Biography Fiennes was born in Ealing in London and was the daughter of Alberic Fiennes, (1865–1919), who worked at the Bank of England and his wife Gertrude, the daughter of a Royal Navy officer. Celia Fiennes was a direct descendant of the 17th-century travel writer Celia Fiennes. Also in 1926, she produced twelve wood engravings for the Cresset Press edition of Matthew Stevenson's 1661 work The Twelve Moneths. In December 1932 Fiennes married Noel Rooke who had been one of her teachers at the Central School and was considered a leading light in the revival of the technique of wood engraving in Britain. In later life Fiennes turned from printmaking to concentrate on painting and in due course retired to a village near Banbury called Culworth where she died in 1998.

Works illustrated The Fables of Aesop, Golden Cockerel Press, 1926 The Twelve Moneths by Matthew Stevenson, Cresset Press, 1926 Together with a Diary for 1929, Cresset Press, 1929 The Grave of Arthur by G. K. Chesterton, Ariel poem No. 25, Faber and Faber, 1930.