Feather, Leaf, Bark, and Stone

This is poetry reimagined by a visual artist; words transformed back into their original function as images.

Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone is a book of poems and meditations with a difference. More than a hundred short texts have been typed onto small squares of gold leaf, then photographed. These pieces are arranged in a sequence which culminates in a glorious final section made up of texts typed directly onto leaves, bark and feathers.

This book is full of the light and wind that fills the Pembrokeshire coast where it was crafted, each page anchored to the landscape by the mechanical rhythm of Jackie’s antique typewriters. The result is a collection of individual artworks to be both looked at and read.

Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone confirms Jackie Morris as an artist and writer with limitless creativity and expanding power.

Jackie Morris is an internationally acclaimed British author and illustrator of more than seventy works whose richly detailed watercolors and lyrical storytelling have made her one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary illustrated books. Jackie lives on the Pembrokeshire Coast in Wales, where the wild landscapes and the flora and fauna that inspire her writing and illustration form the core of her artistic practice. Her art is celebrated for its atmospheric watercolors that bring the natural world and mythic and folkloric narratives to life for readers. Among the works for which she is best known, The Lost Words , with co-author Robert Mcfarlane, was selected by UK booksellers as the “Most Beautiful Book” at the Books Are My Bag Awards in 2016. Her titles The Lost Words and its companion The Lost Spells have been translated into multiple languages and inspired touring exhibitions and multimedia projects.