As the title indicates, the entire wordless narrative shows a window for every page, with someone from the inside looking out. We have already done a feature of her Mirror here, now we do a 2-in-1 Feature of two of her famous works for our theme this March-April: “When Words are not Enough: A Wordless Picture Book Special.” One of my really great discoveries for our Bimonthly theme apart from Fernando Krahn (whose works we reviewed here, here, and here) and Suzy Lee (whose wordless picture books we reviewed in a 3-in-1 here) is Jeannie Baker, an Australian Book Artist who uses collages in her picture books. Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC).
Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress.#DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress.I enjoy the continual challenges this medium gives me to invent techniques and explore and experiment with materials and their textures. The materials and techniques I use vary from one project to another. The work is quite two-dimensional but I play with the little real depth the work has and a strong illusion of perspective is created. Using plants was a problem at first but I have learnt how to preserve them so they last and I add permanent colour. Where I can I like to use textures from the actual materials portrayed such as bark, feathers, cracked paint, earth, knitted wool, tin so that their natural textures become an integral part of the work. The collages are created from a combination of natural and artificial materials. When I feel I can take the ideas and visuals no further in this way, I start to work on the collages themselves, concentrating now mostly on colour and texture, though still refining and developing ideas as I go. I first work out my ideas in drawings, focusing on the work as a whole before developing the details. My more recent projects have evolved into a travelling exhibition. With some projects I produce additional artwork where my concept for the exhibition needs it and I don’t necessarily exhibit every piece of book artwork. Not surprisingly, the actual artwork is distinctively different from what you see in my books.įrom my very first picture book, I have exhibited the artwork and my work has had this other life. I aim to communicate to people through different layers of meaning in my work, the most obvious of which young children can understand and the more subtle, older readers. My artworks are miniature collage constructions.Ī large portion of my work is produced as pages of picture books.
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