A Sparrow's Life's as Sweet as Ours: In Praise of Birds and Seasons - Hardcover

Akroyd, Carry; McEwen, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472967143 ISBN 13: 9781472967145

Verlag: Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2019

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Adapted from The Oldie magazine's Birds of the Month column, this delightful collection includes 66 beautiful bird prints by renowned wildlife artist Carry Akroyd accompanied by John McEwen's beautifully written text.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Carry Akroyd is a painter and printmaker living in Northamptonshire. Landscape and wildlife are her usual subjects, and as a keen bird-noticer, birds usually fly into her artworks. Accidentally becoming an illustrator, Carry has created black-and-white and colour illustrations for poetry collections, natural history books and many book covers. Her prints illustrate the long-standing Bird of the Month column in The Oldie, written by John McEwen. Carry and John's first book, A Sparrow's Life's as Sweet as Ours, was published by Bloomsbury in 2019.

John McEwen was born in Berwickshire, pink-footed goose country, in 1942. John has been art critic of The Spectator and The Sunday Telegraph, author of artist monographs, edited the ornithologist Henry Douglas-Home's memoir The Birdman and was arts editor of The Field. He is a regular contributor to Country Life and a founder of The Oldie, to which he contributes Bird of the Month with Carry Akroyd.

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A Sparrow's Life's as Sweet as Ours is a collection based on the Bird of the Month column in The Oldie, which is written by an instigator of the magazine, John McEwen and illustrated by renowned wildlife artist Carry Akroyd.

In this beautiful new book, painter and printmaker Carry Akroyd presents a sequence of her small screenprints, full of variety and colour, that illustrate British birds in all four seasons of the year. These stunning prints give full rein to her extensive knowledge of the British landscape, and what shines out of these dynamic designs is Carry's deft capturing of each bird's characteristics set beautifully in relation to its habitat. Her consideration of each species combines accuracy with elegant simplicity.

John McEwen's accompanying text is written with charm and concision, and his original columns have been updated for this new collection. John's light, eclectic approach connects snippets of ornithology, history, etymology and cookery, all expressed with wit and knowledge. His writing is spiced with poetry – from Chaucer to the present – as well as facts and stories, while personal and other anecdotes are included to inform and, above all, entertain.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Wildlife
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1472967143
• ISBN 13: 9781472967145
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Akroyd Carry
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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