After several years of pressing Daisy for a divorce, her husband Willy died and she was left feeling that she was a total failure. Juliette Low began searching for something meaningful that would occupy her considerable energy, enthusiasm and talents. She wrote her mother, “I am just an idle woman of the world with no real work or duties. I would like to get away from the world somewhere to work at sculpturing – start to do some work in life.”

She seriously considered becoming a professional sculptor and had been studying with artists in Paris and London when she met Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts and the Girl Guides who was also a talented painter and sculptor. The two became friends because of their common interest in art. However, it was his ideas and the exciting sphere of work with girls that opened up before her and cemented their friendship. For the rest of her life, Daisy’s art became secondary to her life’s pursuit of sculpting girl’s lives through the Girl Scouts. She had finally found her life's meaningful work.

In the collection of the Juliette Low Birthplace there are some wonderful examples of Daisy’s artwork including sculptures, paintings, ceramics, drawings, china painting and metalwork. The portrait busts of her father and niece Daisy Gordon (Lawrence), the first Girl Scout, along with the Girl with a Tortoise modeled after her Welsh God-child Daphne Williams, confirm her finely developed artistic skills, and ability to portray an accurate and sensitive likeness of her subjects. A set of 12 hand-painted dessert plates decorated with different wildlife scenes are a favorite of many visitors. A series of watercolor paper dolls painted on recycled letters, newspapers and receipts feature the characters from Louisa May Alcott’s Eight Cousins and famous actors and actresses of the day.

For many visitors, the most astonishing of Juliette Low’s artistic accomplishments are the Wellesbourne House gates. The gates are embellished with sunflowers, and her parent’s initials. The uprights are made of stock metal; the iron work was wrought in the village blacksmith shop in Warwickshire. The initials are crafted from drawn copper, which Daisy completed on the lawn of her home, Wellesbourne House.

The Wellesbourne House gates were moved to their current location at the Birthplace from Brownie Park in a Savannah neighborhood called Gordonston, which once served as the site of the Gordon family farm. The gates remained at Brownie Park for many years, but were moved to the garden at the Birthplace, where they continue to delight visitors year-round.