~Woman Seated at a Table by a Window~

 

As I sit at my kitchen table,
I gaze out upon the garden.
Peace fills my soul.
The warm breeze blows softly in my face.
The air filled with the smells
and delights of spring.
God's beauty has once again
refreshed my innermost parts.

The loveliness of the morning,
the freshness of spring,
the kindness of the warming sun,
all drawing our eyes once again
to our Creator.

~Author unknown~

~Helena Nelson-Reed~Illustrator

Helena Nelson-Reed has long been fascinated
by myth, fairy tales, legends,
and mysticism as well as history, cultures,
and spiritual paths different from her own.
Born in Seattle, Washington, she grew up
in Marin County and Napa Valley, California,
but eventually made the heartland her home,
residing in Illinois.

Helena Nelson-Reed is sinds lange tijd gefascineerd
door mythen, sprookjes, legendes en mystiek en
geschiedenis, culturen,
en spirituele paden die afwijken van haar eigen.
Geboren in Seattle, Washington, groeide ze op in
Marin County en Napa Valley, Californië,
maar uiteindelijk werd Illinois haar thuis.
  Helena volgde de American Academy of Art school,
en bestudeerde grafische kunsten. 
Ze keerde terug naar de universiteit later in het leven.
Om meer te zien van Helena’s werk 
kun je haar bezoeken op:
http://helenanelsonreed.com



In equal parts the blood of Wales, Ireland,
Sweden and the Pawnee nations flows in her veins.
Helena attended the American Academy of Art
for two years studying architectural rendering,
lettering, and life drawing.
She has no fine art training, considers herself
self taught, and has no affiliations in the art world.
Technique and subject matter emerge
from life experience, vision, dream,
and an innate love of creating.

She prefers natural surroundings and the
company of animals to that of most people,
craves the wild beauty of lonely rocky shorelines,
mountains, rivers, lush forests and wide open plains.

 

To see more of Helena’s work, visit her at
http://www.fine-art-studios.com/intro.html

Helena's werk is geïnspireerd door de traditionele
Native American en de Keltische cultuur,
spiritualiteit en mythe. Over haar beelden, zegt ze:
"Ik ben een gewoon mens. Mijn beelden communiceren
met een persoonlijke interpretatie van archetype,
droom, en levenservaring. Het vloeit voort uit het hart,
vaak creëren ze zich bijna zelf als ik ernaar kijk”

~Miss You~

A lonely fairy lass,
waiting for her love,
who is far away.

~Jacqeline Collen Tarrolly~

~Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly~ Illustrator

"I have this theory. I believe that when
the world of Mortal man and the world of Faery
separated and the faerys left, horses were
faery creatures that chose to stay behind with us."
~ Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly, "E Television" ~

  
Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly is born in Febr. 27 1968 
and grew up in Colorado,
on a small non-working ranch,
outside a very small town. She left the
ranch at 17 for college, where she was
discovered by a modeling agent and
sent to France. She worked for several years
as a model, and then an actress.
During this time, she was married for 8 yrs
to a musician, and they had a son.
After her divorce, she moved to Los Angeles,
where she still lives with her second husband
(as of March 17, 2001), her son, who is now 16
(as of 2006), and her new daughter
who was born in November, 2005.

Jacqueline has from 10 to 20 animals. 
She has horses and dogs and
one funny tutle named Tulip
and usually a few wild rahab animals
around of various species at any given time.

Besides her artwork, Jacqueline owns an all
natural bath and body products company
that she started called Medieval.



Do you want to know more about her?
http://www.toadstoolfarmart.com/

"Perfect Moment"

I hold a Perfect Moment,
treasured deep within my heart.

And so I keep you close to me
though fate keeps us apart.

A few dark nights, a tiny space,
all white and fairy lit

Became the safest place of all,
your arms the warmth in it.

The whisper of your breath as
it entangled in my hair.

Was the only way to tell each other
just how much we care.

I see you in my dreams and
it's my armour against time.

But I hold this Perfect Moment.
Just one moment you were mine.

~Frances Tyrrell~

Frances Tyrrell lives and works in
Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
Her finely illustrated picture books are
collected by children and adults.
Her original watercolours are in private and
public collections. She has twice been shortlisted for
the Governor-General's Award for illustration.



A lover of the magical world of illustrated books
since childhood, Frances now takes great pleasure
in creating beautiful books for to-day's children.
She gratefully acknowledges her teachers,
the creators of the beautifully illustrated
books of the past.

A few books: Illustrated by Frances Tyrrell:

This is the castle that Kate built, and in it can be
found the dreams of every child who
has ever spent a sandy, sun-filled day at the beach.

"' Twas in the moon of wintertime when
all the birds had fled ..."
So begins Canada's most beautiful Christmas carol.
Its writer, Jean de Brebeuf (1593-1649), was a
Jesuit missionary who lived and worked among the
Huron Indians for twenty-two years.
Although Father de Brebeuf was killed during an
Iroquois raid, the carol was kept alive in
the Huron language for over one hundred years
before it was translated into French.
The English words were written in 1926 by J.E. Middleton.

You can read more about her
on her blog or website

http://www.francestyrrell.com/
http://www.treasureseekerstudio.blogspot.com/

~Bella`s lullaby~

Life was like a moonless night
Shrouded in the stars
Beauty can be such a fright
But now you're in my arms

You are my life now
Can't you see
I'd cross oceans
I'd swim seas
To be with you
That's enough for me.
Your face is like a poison
Intoxicating me
How can we live forever
When our love can never be.

From the movie: Twillight, New Moon

~Jessie Willcox Smith~Illustrator

 Jessie Willcox Smith,
was born on September 6 in 1863 
She died on May 3 in 1935
She was a United States illustrator famous
for her work in magazines such as
Ladies Home Journal and for her
illustrations for children's books.

Born in the Mount Airy neighborhood
of Philadelphia,
Smith studied at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts under
Thomas Eakins in Philadelphia, graduating in 1888.
A year later, she started working in the
production department of the Ladies Home Journal,
for five years. She left to take classes under
Howard Pyle, first at Drexel and then at
the Brandywine School.

 
She was a prolific contributor to books and
magazines during the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, illustrating stories
and articles for clients such as Century,
Collier's Weekly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's,
McClure's, Scribners and the Ladies' Home Journal.

 

Smith may be most well known for her covers
on Good Housekeeping, which she painted
from December 1917 through March 1933.
She also painted posters and portraits.
Her twelve illustrations for Charles Kingsley's
The Water-Babies (1916) are also well known.
On Smith's death, she bequeathed the
original works to the Library of Congress'
"Cabinet of American Illustration" collection.
(A thirteenth illustration remains in a private collection.)

  

Just a Few books:
-Chapin, Anna Alice, The Now-a-Days Fairy Book, 1911.
-Dickens’ Children, Scribner, 1912.
-Moore, Clement C., ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, 1912.
-The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose, Dodd, 1914.
-Alcott, Louisa Mae, Little Women, Little, Brown, 1915.
-Underwood, Priscilla, When Christmas Comes Around, 1915.
-A Child’s Stamp Book of Old Verses, 1915.

 

“It has been one long joyous road along which
troop delightful children, happy children,
sad children, thoughtful children, and
above all wondering, imaginative children,
who give to their charmingly original thoughts
a delicious quaintness of expression. I love to paint them all.”
~Jessie Wilcox Smith~

 
Jessie Willcox Smith
werd geboren op 6 September in 1863.
En is overleden na een langdurig ziekbed op 3 Mei in 1935
Zij heeft illustraties gemaakt voor magazines
in Verenigde Staten zoals Good Housekeeping Magazine
van begin vorige eeuw. Daarnaast heeft zij
verschillende schilderijen gemaakt en
diverse kinderboeken geïllustreerd.
Ze wordt gezien als de eerste vrouwelijke
illustrator van de Verenigde Staten.

Children’s Book Week - Kinderboekenweek in de VS.
Ook in de Verenigde Staten wordt elk jaar
een Kinderboekenweek gehouden.
De ‘Official Poster’ van dit jaar is van Ian Falconer.
De posters die elk jaar door een andere
kinderboekenillustrator worden gemaakt zijn vaak
bijzonder fraai. In 1994 verscheen
het boek 75 Years of Children’s Book Week Posters
met alle tot dan toe verschenen posters.

 

De eerste poster uit 1919, gemaakt door
Jessie Wilcox Smith, viel zo in de smaak dat
deze vijf jaar lang gebruikt werd (afb. links versie 1921).
Ook de poster van 1924, ‘More Books In The Home’,
werd door haar gemaakt, maar in de volgende jaren
werd steeds een op dat moment
populaire illustrator ingehuurd.

~"Remember the Lost"~

Remember the lost ones and
those without names
Remember the hungry and
those who feel shame

While you revel and warm yourselves
with the hearth's flames
Remember the banished and outcast

Think of those standing outside looking in
or walking the darkened moors
empty within
calling for you
to forgive them their sins
as you turn your back in
judgement steadfast


Once in a while
look for those
who've been lost
throw open your door
let the warmth melt the frost
and ask someone in
from the fringe of exhaustion
to fill up their bone weary souls

All of us started here
muchly the same
nobody starts their life
in sin and shame
so on this one night throw out
all of your blame
for the Goblins and Giants
and Trolls.

Best of 2008 Froudian Poem:
First place goes to Traci Wilson for her poem
is inspired by "The fairytale giant"
from "Brian Froud's World of Faerie."

~Wendy Froud~

"In my fantasies, all of my dolls could fly,
all of them were magic".
~Wendy Froud~

     Wendy became a doll maker at
the age of five. As soon as she could bend a pipe
cleaner and tape bits of fabric together she
began to make the kind of dolls she couldn't buy.
Dolls of centaurs and satyrs, unicorns and faeries,
all to populate the world she wanted to be a part of.
She continues to do so to this day.
She has created dolls, puppets, and
sculpture for many films, including
The Empire Strikes Back (she is credited with
bringing its beloved character Yoda to life)
and Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth,
and The Muppet Movie. Her dolls and figures
are highly sought out by private collectors worldwide.

Wendy Froud was born in Detroit, Michigan.
She graduated with a degree in fabric design
and ceramics from The Center for
Creative Studies in Detroit. She worked as a
sculptor and puppet fabricator on The Muppet Show,
and the feature films The Dark Crystal,
Labyrinth and The Empire Strikes Back.
Since moving to Dartmoor, England, with
her husband Brian Froud, Wendy has concentrated
on doll and model making, and illustrating books
including “A Midsummer Night’s Faery Tale”,
“The Winter Child” and “The Faeries of Spring Cottage”
with author Terri Windling. She has provided
both models and writing for Brian Froud’s books
“Goblins!” and “Lady Cottington’s Pressed Faery Album”.
Wendy’s newest book is “The Art of Wendy Froud”,
published by Imaginosis.


She teaches doll and
figure making workshops as well as mask making
workshops in the U.S. and England.
Her dolls and figures have been widely exhibited
and collected throughout the U.S. and Europe.

 
She now lives in Devon, England, with her husband
and frequent artistic collaborator, Brian,
and their son, Toby.

She now devotes most of her time to making dolls
and figures for exhibition and sale
throughout the US and England.
Through her association with
The Lynda Guber Organization,
a production company based in Los Angeles,
Wendy will be developing and producing a variety
of new and innovative products, including publishing,
feature films, television, and new media
under the banner of THE WORLD OF FROUD.
www.worldoffroud.com

Bekend kunstenaar Brian Froud en zijn vrouw,
de beroemde poppenmaakster Wendy Froud werpen
licht op een plek die vaak verborgen blijft voor
het oog van stervelingen; het Rijk der Elfen.
Brian's gedetailleerde beelden vangen op perfecte
wijze de sfeer van deze Wereld en Wendy's
sculpturen geven ons de mogelijkheid een
driedimensionale glimp op te vangen van de
expressieve gezichten en de ondeugende aard
van dit Elfenvolkje. Het resultaat van hun samenwerking
neemt je mee naar de wereld van wonderlijke
en vooral betoverende wezens die tuinen,
wouden en schemering bevolken.

  
Wendy Froud werd geboren in Detroit,
Michigan in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika.
Ze studeerde af in textielontwerp en keramiek
aan The Center For Creative Studies in Detroit.
Ze heeft als ontwerpster en poppenmaakster
gewerkt voor de Muppet Show
en de films The Dark Crystal
(ontwerp van de belangrijkste figuren Jen en Kira),
Labyrinth (het boetseren van de trollen)
en The Empire Strikes Back (het ontwerp van Yoda).
Sinds ze met haar man Brian Froud
naar Devon in Engeland is verhuisd,
heeft Wendy zich toegelegd op het
maken van poppen en modellen.

Ze heeft de illustraties gemaakt voor drie boeken:
-A Midsummer Night’s Faerytale
-The Winter Child en
-The Goblins of Spring Cottage met Terri Windling.
Wendy heeft de modellen gemaakt en
de tekst geschreven
voor Brian Froud’s books Goblins!
and Lady Cottington’s Pressed Faery Album.
Wendy’s meest recente boek is The Art of Wendy Froud,
uitgegeven door Imaginosis.
Wendy geeft cursussen in het maken van poppen,
figuren en maskers in Amerika en Engeland.
Met haar poppen en figuren heeft ze overal
in Amerika en Europa geëxposeerd en
haar werk maakt deel uit
van de collecties van Amerikaanse
en Europese verzamelaars.

Read the Interview with Wendy

Creating a Faery with Wendy Froud