Linda McCartney could see beauty in "changing a baby's nappy, driving to Scotland, being on the farm with the sheep or horses".
That was Sir Paul McCartney's tribute to his late wife, a "great artist", as he unveiled an exhibition of her photographs yesterday.
The ex-Beatle has curated the display of prints at the James Hyman Gallery with his daughter Mary, also a photographer.
Sir Paul, 65, described how he had watched Linda's work "unfold".

He said: "Since Linda passed away, we worried that her work was not going to be shown, so it was wonderful when James Hyman said that he'd like to exhibit her photographs.

"Linda was clever, she was intuitive, and a great artist, and I'm delighted that this exhibition gives people a chance to see that.
"The idea of her being shown in a fine art gallery would, I'm sure, have appealed to her."
Sir Paul also said that the exhibition, ten years after Linda died of breast cancer, brought back memories of "little things" like "the way that she held her camera".

"She had very graceful hands, long fingers, and there was a way that her fingers framed the camera that was so expert and elegant," he said.
"She knew the moment to click, which I think was her big secret."

Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (née Eastman, previously See) (September 24, 1941 -- April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, and animal rights activist. She married Paul McCartney of The Beatles on 12 March 1969. The McCartneys had four children together: Heather Louise (from her previous marriage, whom Paul McCartney adopted in 1969), Mary Anna, Stella Nina, and James Louis. Linda became Lady McCartney when her husband was knighted in 1997.

McCartney and her husband shared an Oscar nomination for the song "Live and Let Die", which they co-wrote. She authored several vegetarian cookbooks, became a business entrepreneur (starting the Linda McCartney Foods company) and was a professional photographer, publishing Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era. She was a member of Wings.

McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and died at the age of 56 on 17 April 1998, at the McCartney family ranch in Tucson, Arizona. She left her entire estate to her husband through a Qualified Domestic Trust Fund

Linda Louise Eastman McCartney / 1941-1998

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