Amanda Mijangos VI

 

A daughter looses her mother and finds her grief reflected in a tree, and try's to lift the spirits of the tree, a book of grief and kindness repairing the soul and how nature is a great healer.

“The Braids of My Tree” with Illustrations by Amanda Mijangos text by Bernardo Govea, published 2024 won a honourable mention at this years The Golden Pinwheel awards. 

Sabina Hahn

 

Sabina Hahn's wonderful 'to do lists' sequence.

Susan Davis

 

From sketchbook to print, the work of Susan Davis. 

Laura Carlin XIV

If you can get a copy of 'The Woman Who Turned Children into Birds' by David Almond, illustrated by Laura Carlin,  published 2022 by Walker Books then do, it is so beautiful and life affirming!

'She made her marks.

She whispered her words.

Then she said,

“Go on. Be happy. Up you go."

I wish all children and children pretending to be adults could be free like this...

Jack Milroy

 

Jack Milroy reconstitutes books into intricate collages reforming them into incredibly detailed visual mini worlds so that we might examine our own lived in world from these 'lived in' pages. 

Neda Petrova

 

Mixed media artist Neda Petrova, collects images in sketchbooks which she then collages into delicate surreal paintings.

Cheryl Andrey

 

Cheryl Andrey's mosaic of coloured cardboard.

"I believe that each of us is shaped slowly over time. We become a collection of influences that we gather over the years." Cheryl Andrey

Thiago Avila and Beatrice Alemagna

 Beatrice Alemagna illustration of quote by Thiago Avila  

'Everyone died a little bit with every child in Gaza' Thiago Avila

Yes, I feel this to be true in my heart, with every injustice, every beautiful life lost.

Every life lost in the ceaseless pointless wars of ego ignorance and status. 

Ulla Thynell

 

'Woodlands' by Ulla Thynell is about to go into it's second edition. Ulla's illustrations are made using a base of alcohol ink to give a gentel abstract base for her to create her landscapes and mythology.

Brian Wildsmith XIV

 

 

I have just bought myself a copy of 'Goat's Trail' by Brian Wildsmith Published 1986 by Oxford University Press. What a beauty of a book with the goat (children) seeing the world through little portals of adventure and possibility all in Brian's Kaleidoscopic colours and generous watercolours. The Bright Agency is now representing the estate of Brian Wildsmith and I hope we see many re-published editions and exhibitions of this phenomenal artists work soon.