If you took a look at the ACHUKA photo report of the Katherina Manolessou picture book launch yesterday (and it was one of our most highly-viewed blog pages ever) then you must also check out Sarah McIntyre’s highly-illustrated  blog  report of the same event.

Sarah explains why she wanted to be there:

The reason I was so keen to see Katherina’s book and exhibition was that she was one of the very first illustrators in Britain to inspire me. I went to the London Artist Book Fair, something like ten years ago, possibly even twelve. And I bought a copy of her screenprinted Parasites, which delighted me in the way it worked beautifully folded as a little book, but also unfolded, as a poster. And I was just starting to get my head around the idea of using limited colour palettes (instead of every colour in the rainbow), so I was very struck by her use of red and orange, without any black outline. It was only later that I got into comics and realised that making little books and selling them at fairs was something I wanted to do.

Do visit the page – there are lots more illustrations, namechecks and several interesting hyperlinks, including a rather remarkable interview with Irish illustrator Steve Simpson on Russian TV. You have to get past the opening ad, and I intentionally don’t provide the link here so that you have to visit Sarah’s blog for this and all the other goodies which she has so carefully crafted into her blog post.
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