Cristina Sitja Rubio III

'A Helping Hand', by Cristina Sitja Rubio. Juancho and Panchita are two parakeets that are very busy with their various jobs, which they love. They are so busy they have no time to hang out with friends or just enjoy some quiet time, so they decide to hire an extra hand. After they put an advert in the paper, many candidates show up. This is story about balancing life and work, as well as taking care of friendships and always being open to new friendships. The idea of two parakeets busy gardening is delightful as are the pencil drawings. 

Linda de Canha I

 

Squawk went to Bologna as the graduation book of Linda De Canha, it is a fantastic book about belonging and place . . . told from the perspective of suspecting pigeons, who with the arrival of parakeets learn to deal with change. I hope it has found a publisher.

Carla Haslbauer

 

Lovely soft pastel illustrations by Carla Haslbauer in 'Where do Ideas Come From?' written by Bettina Obrecht, published by Kunstanstifter 2026. 

Windy Zhu

 

These are illustrations from a book called 'What Colour Am I', by Windy Zhu who has completed her Masters at Anglia Ruskin University. Her see life has great charm and humour and I love the way she has integrated the marine plants with the. sea creatures.

Maria Surducan

 

A biographical paper kaleidocycle (four page book) drawn in a linocut print style by Maria Surducan.

Jacques Hnizdovsky II

 

Jacques Hnizdovsky was born on January 27, 1915 in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, Hnizdovsky, a member of a noble family. They were forced to flee to Poland during the 1917 Russian Revolution, and thus he went on to study at both the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland and the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia before immigrating to the United States in 1949, settling in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

He created illustrations for a number of books, including The Poems of John Keats (1964), Tree Trail of Central Park (1971), and Flora Exotica (1972). These illustrations are all from 'Ukranian Folk Tales', translated by Marie Halun Bloch and illustrated with woodcut prints by Jacques Hnizdovsky, published in 1964. 

Jacques Hnizdovsky I

Jacques Hnizdovsky's 1915- 1985 was aUkrainian artist whose work has an incredible order and symmetry. He worked mainly in woodcuts, but did use other mediums. 

" One day, on a train, I watched the forest approach the train, then race alongside it in an exhausting dash. I examined the order of the trees which, under the effect of movement, changed their arrangement and shape in an orderly manner. I thought to myself that if one could explore this order, one could reproduce the image of movement ."

In the summer of 1949, like thousands of Ukrainians in those post-war years scattered throughout Europe and unwilling to return to Soviet Ukraine, the artist left for the United States of America: 

" It became irrelevant to me where I live. I learned to have no more desires ."

"Freedom has no insurance policy."  

澁澤星 Sei Shibusawa

 

Paintings by Japanese artist Sei Shibusawa on paper with gold leaf. 

Tracy Mcguinness-Kelly VI

 Songs of love and hope by Tracy Mcguinness-Kelly a beauty of layering.

Esther González II

 

Pages from Esther González's diary of March last year trying to make sense of the world.