settled into her new home at Farleys, an East Sussex farmhouse decorated with works of art. mom son Antony Penrose tells the news that “Farleys gave her the incentive to heal herself.”
The irregular characteristics of the happy face painted on a tile above the kitchen range have a familiar sense to them. My guide then verifies that the tile is a Picasso. At Farleys Farmhouse in East Sussex, this historically oversized artwork speaks of playfulness, hospitality, and well-known connections. All have bearing on the lives of Lee Miller, a former Vogue model who became a war photographer, and her husband Roland Penrose, a surrealist artist. However, there’s more to the tale.
Miller, who was PTSD sufferer and became more and more dependent on alcohol, gradually healed.
Kate Winslet plays that experience in the recently released biography Lee, which she also co-produced. Regarding Farleys, which his parents purchased in 1949, Antony Penrose says, “It was pretty crude to begin with.” “There was no heat for the first six to eight years. Because of the iron, the water from the well had a tomato soup-like appearance.
