Sue Bird was always painting: botanical art, landscapes, still lifes, and especially the sea. She took classes, kept countless sketchbooks, and filled the house with art. From their neighbourhood to their family trips, all the moments of her life were memorialised in her artwork. Throughout her life, she never sold a piece - she gave art to family and friends, and shared her work online, but never received wider recognition for her work. This graphic novel by her son, Tim Bird, explores their family life and her creative explorations through a mix of her paintings and Tim's comics, depicting their relationship and her life from teenagehood to her struggle with cancer at the height of the covid pandemic. After her death, this graphic novel at last showcases her work. At its heart a book about creativity and family relationships, Adrift on a Painted Sea tells a story about the things we overlook in the people closest to us.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"A lovely, kind, honest piece of work. Sensitive and true." - Luke Healy, author of The Con Artists
"This is such a beautiful and touching work about the persistent power of love, the mirrors of memory and the endless narratives of the sea. When I'd read it I had to stop what I was doing and gaze out of the window for a while until my soul stopped trembling." - Ian McMillan, BBC Radio
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Broschur/Paperback
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Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 236 mm
Breite: 167 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-910395-82-0 (9781910395820)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Tim Bird is an illustrator and comic artist based in Winchester, who's finishing an MA in Illustration at Falmouth University in 2024. He's published a number of comics through Avery Hill Publishing as well as self-published zines and webcomics such as Rock & Pop, and It's a Bird's Life. He's contributed work to a diverse range of anthologies. His comic From the City to the Sea won best comic at the British Comic Awards in 2015.
