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About Me
- Jackie Morris
- Illustrator, artist and writer, mother, baker of bread, slave to many cats.
The House of Golden Dreams
A small charm, one of the paintings from my new gallery, selling original paintings, drawings and prints.
The House of Golden Dreams Gift Shop
Every gallery needs a gift shop: all kinds of small gifts from phone cases to button badges and tote bags
The Cat and the Fiddle
New book, published 6th October 2011
Signed Books.
Signed books available from Solva Woollen Mill, Middlemill, near St Davids
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Dragons and other books
Some written and all illustrated by Jackie Morris
Beautiful Sheepskin Boots from Pembrokeshire
Made in Narberth
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Cornelissen and Son, artists' colourmen, est 1855
Art shop full of delight where I purchase gold leaf by mail order
Tasmin Abbott
Glass and stories and hares and selkies
Beautiful jewels
Talismanic jewels from Hannah Willow, hares and bears and silver and gold.
The Ninth Wave
How I love this woman's work, poetry in painting
SEO Wales
Claire Carlile. For guidance through the world of marketing, both online and in the real world, she is 'the cat's mother'.
Margo Lanagan's Blog
"A gold-eyed stare met him there..."
ReplyDeleteLove the cat across the top of the clock.
ReplyDeleteI love this...you are so very good.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful!!These so-called "simple" books would be very hard to illustrate. This will be lovely.
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to recall the detail of an old mantle clock in my grandfatehr's home--I think it had a shape similar to this one.
ReplyDeleteA clock--or most anything--is enhanced by the peeping face of a cat.
I see your cat has snuck in there!
ReplyDelete"The clock struck one, the mouse ran down,"
ReplyDeleteAnd now we know why!
I think this would make a great cover. Lovely details to explore, lots of interesting things for the reader and child to look at and talk about. . . That, to me, is the best part of reading to a young child, the interacting.
Personally,I would make the cat crouched lower down and move the cat's head down and to the left (it would make it feel more "symmetrical" to me, and make the diagonal between the cat and the mouse stronger, I think) so that the detail of the upper "hump" of the clock case could be lower or else put some kind of ornamentation there to justify the "hump" height and width like a moon phase indicator. Seems to me that kind of clock would have a moon phase indicator (If "Hey, Diddle Diddle" is one of the nursery rhymes, then you could have a cow involved in the moon phase indicator, and maybe a dancing dish and spoon?). Just my thoughts.
Very cool!
ReplyDeleteThere's a sense of tension with the cat looming overhead!
-Dean