Bookish Mary

  Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas, started out as a radio drama in 1954. Later it was accepted for the stage.  An omniscient narrator invites the audience/reader to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing village.   This artist's book lists the different characters of Milk Wood and I included some images that related to the character.  I also included a poem and excerpt from the Gwalia Gazette.  The hand drawn images are painted with water colours and the text is handwritten. I created this book in 2020.  Front Cover  Title Page  Back Cover

  Symbiosis was created in response to a call.  It was inspired by the symbiotic relationship between the monarch butterfly and milkweed plant.  These fragile looking butterflies migrate thousands of miles between Mexico  and Canada.  One of their main sources of nutrition is the milkweed plant.   This book is made of laminated milkweed seeds and then embroidered to replicate the flying seeds. Protective cover: chyogami, book cloth and stained glass.  Inside of the protective cover and the book cover.  Etched front cover: replicating flying milk weed seeds.  Open pages of the book.  Front cover of the book. Etched back cover and last page. 

  Some years we get a lot of snow in Ottawa and other years we get extreme cold and snow .  Jack Frost is one of my favourite winter artists and he has left a lot of beautiful images on the old windows.  New ones have since been installed and Jack is no longer an artist in residence.   When looking through my photos, one day, I came across a lot of winter scenes and activities.  This led to the creation of the artist book: Snow White and the 7 Ds.  I chose photographic images for each of the 7 D's, and no, they are not the dwarfs, but the seven days of the week.  I used white polychromos pencils on black sketch paper.  Front cover Snow White in her winter coat (actually it's a tree that has been wrapped for protection against winter cold, snow and ice).  Tree shadows on the snow.  Stars and trees in the snow. The January 1 polar dip in Ottawa.  These fellows walked on water before dropping into the icy water.  This little ...