Jackie Morris & Tamsin Abbott: Wild Folk
Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019.
Her many beloved books include Tell Me a Dragon, The Snow Leopard and The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow. Jackie's poetry includes Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone and earlier this year Fox and Otter appeared as the start of an exciting new series of fold-out accordion Books.
Tamsin Abbott has been creating painted stained glass panels for over twenty years. Her work is inspired by the British landscape, folklore and fairytale. She is a member of the British Society of Master Glass Painters and has exhibited with them as well the Museum of British Folklore, the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, and many other UK galleries. Wild Folk is her first book as a stained glass illustrator.
Wild Folk comprises seven richly illustrated fables of transformation and power, summoned from the ancient stones beneath our feet and transformed by word and image into portals between past and future. The tales are neither new nor old. They are full of ‘wild folk’, shape-shifting spirits that carry the energy that connects all things.
This a book made to be looked at and held (it might be the first time stained glass images have been created specifically to illustrate a book). Tamsin paints on glass, the most mysterious stone of all, used for centuries to tell stories to people who couldn’t read or write. A story painted on glass is something you can look at and look through, sometimes both at once.
It brings together Jackie’s words and Tamsin’s images, but the stories come from both. It is a true collaboration born out of friendship and hope. These are tales to make you see, listen and most of all feel the wild magic that links stone, tree, fox and star.
This event will be held in Westlands Ballroom.
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