An Artist's Garden by Brender a Brandis, Gerard - 2001

Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 2001 A selection of some of this Canadian artist's finely detailed and dramatic wood engravings (The original engravings are hand printed on hand made paper using his own Press) Here is his artistic manifesto : "The process through which I go as I create an image remains largely mysterious to me, but I do know that it is far from merely registering, as accurately as possible, the material presented to my eye. I change many lines to satisfy my sense of design, I invent textures which will, I hope, suggest the surfaces of the objects before me, and I create systems of light and shadow that will best reveal the fragment of the world I have chosen to depict. What pleases me is that the image I offer the viewers challenges them, like musicians faced with a score, to engage in a creative process of their own, filling out the image with remembered experience. Turning my white dots and dashes into the shimmering, iridescent wings of a dragon fly -- and believing in their own conjuring -- is the necessary corollary to my process of abstraction. That people are so ready to enter into this give-and-give game fills me with wonder and gratitude." Inscription on title page in his elegant handwriting. 163p. plates plus fold-out triptych, A nice gift volume.. Signed by Artist. 1st Canadian Edition.. Original Wraps. As New.