"These two contemplative books [Glyph and Reflection] were made in the same period as Swan songs with damselflies. In both books the images are printed on fine transparent Chinese paper as individual double spreads, the inks penetrating to the verso of each page. Images of plants and water reflections combine with paper and print to create subtle contemplative effects within and through the pages. Reflection captures delicate shimmer in distance and depth, whilst in the foreground dead rushes bend, reflect and mourn. In contrast Glyph captures the articulated excitement of lily pads emerging from water in spring. Angled and precise in mirror image reflection they punctuate the plain of water/page as letter, character: as glyph."--Weproductions website.
Subject Terms:
Douglas, Helen, 1952- Reflection. | Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Plants in art. | Water lilies in art. | Botanical illustration. | Women in natural history.