The Iona Notebooks

I’m delighted to be able to announce that my book The Iona Notebooks is available now from the publisher, Guillemot Press.

Here is the link…

https://guillemotpress.wordpress.com/kate-walters/

Woman of the Horses Watercolour with ink stick, 2016, Kate Walters, 35 x 45 cm approx for email   Orkney drawing

 

“Kate Walters is an artist rooted in a more shamanic, mystical tradition. She engages with place through dreams and visions, the flow and dribble and pour of paint and ink, the scratch of hesitant pen and pencil. Iona Notebooks (Guillemot, 2017) presents some of the work from her residency on Iona, living and working in the wild.

The beautifully presented full-colour book is accompanied by a set of postcards of land- and sea- scapes, bright and joyous, clear and forthright, whilst the work in the book is darker and stranger, accompanied by simple fragments of text, sometimes scratched into the work reproduced here. Deer and moose and horses and dogs and birds all cluster around the artist, sometimes literally depicted nesting on a figure’s head, elsewhere looming vaguely into dreamscapes, crimson and maroon emerging from layers of white. Both writing and painting are sensual and evocative, hermetic even, full of feeling and emotion, desires and a longing to commune with the earth and its inhabitants, both seen and unseen. It is engaging, disturbing and entrancing work.”   Rupert Loydell poet and director of Stride.

Full review   including other books about place here:

http://stridemagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/three-ways-of-looking-at-landscape.html

Extract from the review by Nicholas Usherwood in Galleries magazine, May 2017:

“on the edge of Bodmin moor, new (2016) independent publisher (poetry,art books, pamphlets) Guillemot Press and visionary artist-writer Kate Walters, comes to fruition this month with an exhibition – and publication – of the latter’s extraordinary ‘Iona Notebooks’. These come from some three periods of time working in her residency on this intensely sacred island; notebooks full of words set down with her eyes closed, drawings made in chapels at dusk, paintings and monotypes all creating a powerful sense of an artist ‘dreaming ‘her way through the landscape, both backwards and forwards in time, ancient and modern in the same breath’.”

Mountain horse sleeping Kate Walters watercolour 2016

Coming Rain   Hill over sea   Swan Cloud