Wild Folk

Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books, and written some. The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane, won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019.Tamsin Abbott has been creating painted stained-glass panels from her Herefordshire home for over twenty years. Her work is inspired by the British landscape, folklore and fairytale. Her pursuit of rural life began at Stirling University, where she studied Medieval Literature. Wild Folk is her first book as a stained-glass illustrator.

'Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott are spell-makers. These are sonorous tales, iridescent with enchantment and power. Stories of transformation, loss and defiance, exploring that much-forgotten border between the natural and supernatural worlds. The illustrations, made on glass, are luminous, remarkable things.' Kerry Andrew, author of We Are Together Because'Wild Folk is a wondrous weaving of story and image, glass and ink, dream and song, created together by two makers at the height of their huge powers, who also happen to be dear friends with one another. Born of love and collaboration, the art here holds light that spills and fills, and spaces in which to breathe and swim.' Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive? 'A glorious and unforgettable book told masterfully through the perfect combination of words and images. Exquisitely beautiful, it will sing to your very soul.' Liz Hyder, author of The Twelve'A magically beautiful work of creative re-membering (and) re-ensoulment...Singing to the marrow of our bones, this is how the old gods rise. It's glorious. Read it and live.' Manda Scott, author of Any Human Power'It is going to be a treasure...a legacy book. Timeless, precious, something to be gifted and kept for generations.' Kate Humble, broadcaster and author'A book of true wonder tales, in which the old is made new and the new is made timeless. Its pages shine with wildness, each glass picture a portal to those dream worlds that crackle and shimmer within and around us.' Zoe Gilbert, author of Folk and Mischief Acts