I recently had the pleasure of interviewing and writing the ICON profile of children’s book author and illustrator Giselle Potter for Issue 33 of 3×3, the Magazine of Contemporary Illustration. Read my opener below:
“Although Giselle Potter is dubious of comparisons to folk art or of the adjective naïve to describe her work, her illustrations nevertheless defy spatial representation as we know it—or at least as it has come to be known since the Italian Renaissance. There are no vanishing points: tabletops float at odd angles in relation to the floor like flotsam and jetsam; the seat of an armchair may mysteriously shrink to fit into a corner of the room; and the ground itself may rise up and loom behind a figure like an ocean wave poised to crash. The result is an often mysterious rendering of space that yields a mildly disorienting (but charming) flatness. ‘I have heard the word flat used to describe my pictures but I don’t see them as flat,’ admits Giselle. ‘Sometimes I wonder: Do we just all see things differently?’”
Read the entire profile (as well as prior articles) under Design is Play Articles. [MF]
Image courtesy of Giselle Potter.