With my cover-image work complete on Damian Walford Davies’s forthcoming book from Seren, Witch, I’ve turned again to Marly Youman’s The Foliate Head. The imagery for the cover was completed months ago, but today I finished the set of black and white images for the decorations inside. (Foliate Heads and Green Men have long held a place in my heart, and this project has been a wonderful opportunity to examine anew a past enthusiasm.) In a fortnight Andrew Wakelin will be coming to stay here for a weekend so that we can work together on the design and layout of the book. Marly has been very patient, but hopefully will have her book ready for the publisher before very long.
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Wow, what a great series! I love these!
Mmmmm. More than we’ll need, I should think!
Thanks Thom. Glad you approve.
These are fabulous
I think I like the first best.
Ahhhhh, the smiling one! (-:
these are wonderful! i love the shading of the first one–the effect of the eyes is fantastic… and my favorite ‘disgorging’ is the penultimate image–very wild and electric-seeming. what a book it will be! congratulations to you both!
I think my own favourite is the fourth down, I like the inscrutable expression and the sense of a small, pinched, white face peering out from a shrubbery.
I sort of get into a zone when drawing these. Could keep going all day!
They are wonderful Clive, mysterious and ancient, very strong images.
Marly’s poems always inspire me to be ‘mysterious and ancient’!
Clive, got back from my talk in Roanoke last night and have just looked at these! Most delicious–it will be a scrumptious book!
Oh I do hope so Marly!
Love them Clive. Marly will the book be available for us to buy over here?
Yes, it is being published by Stanza Press in the UK!
Striking!
Thank you Elizabeth. I’ve made them bold so that they’ll work even if reproduced at a small scale. I always love working in black and white, so these have been a pleasure to do.