Morris, Jackie
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BIOGRAPHY
Original picture book artwork by Jackie Morris is available for purchase from Images of Delight.
British-born children's illustrator Jackie Morris once remarked that she knew she wanted to become an artist at the age of six. Later this desire was refined into a desire to become an illustrator after watching a TV programme of Nicola Bayley painting for The Tiger Voyage. Despite warnings from elders that a career in the arts was not practical, Jackie persisted and entered Hereford College of Art for one year before moving on to Bath Academy of Art. After spending three years at Bath, the aspiring artist set off for London, portfolio in tow, hoping to find work as an illustrator. Of her time in London, Jackie recalled that she learnt far more than she ever had in the comfortable environment of college. One of the illustrating jobs she landed, creating pictures to appear on greeting cards, caught the attention of author Caroline Pitcher, who had just completed a children's story and was searching for the right illustrator to create the artwork for her book. Just days before the birth of her child, Jackie received a call from the publisher Bodley Head, offering her the opportunity to provide the pictures for Jo's Storm, her first of five collaborations with Pitcher. She has since illustrated over 30 children's books, some of which she has also written.
Jackie has won numerous awards including; the Tir na n-Og Prize awarded by the Welsh Books Council, 2005, for The Seal Children. The Tir na n-Og Prize for Best English Book of the Year, Welsh Books Council, 1997, for Cities in the Sea. The Children's Book Federation Award shortlist, 1997, for The Snow Whale and in 1988 she was Highly Commended in the Australian Women's Art Award.
Jackie's work has been exhibited widely in Galleries throughout the U.K. and as far afield as Queensland, Australia. She has also exhibited at the Swansea and Edinburgh Book Festivals and has work in the public collection at the National Library of Wales.
Jackie lives near St. Davids, Wales, has two children, three dogs and more cats than I can remember!
Further information can be found on Jackie's website www.jackiemorris.co.uk
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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|  | The Snow Leopard, written and illustrated by Jackie Morris and first published 2007 by Frances Lincoln Children's Books.
Review, The New York Times, 2007
The book succeeds largely through vivid watercolor illustrations that meld ink-brush abstraction and subtle detail into a gorgeous fantasy. Morris, who has illustrated more than two dozen books, paints a dramatic portrait of the snow leopard and her environment; the big cat glides from flatness to depth across a landscape dressed in stark blue-whites and blue-blacks. With its focus on a severely endangered animal at a time of global warming and species eradication, ''The Snow Leopard'' sends a valuable message about the beauty and power of the natural world. |
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|  | The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems, compiled and illustrated by Jackie Morris with an introduction by Carol Ann Duffy and published 2006 by Barefoot Books.
It has already won a silver award from Foreward Magazine, U.S.A. and with this book Jackie has been nominated Best Artist in the British Fantasy Society Awards.
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|  | Can You See a Little Bear, first published 2005 by Francis Lincoln. This book has been published to great acclaim.
It was chosen by Child Magazine (USA) as one of their top 50 books of the year. (2005)
It was also selected by Nicholas Tucker of The Independent as one of the "Best Children's Titles for Christmas" (Dec 9th, 2005)
"They should also much enjoy Jackie Morris's luminous illustrations for Can You See a Little Bear? ...Pleasantly written by James Mayhew, this look-and-find journey through a series of ultra-colourful settings in different countries is simply astonishing."
Times Review of Books, 17th Dec 2005, Amanda Craig wrote;
"A lyrical mood is set by James Mayhew and Jackie Morris, in Can You See A Little Bear? ...Morris illustrated one of my other favourite Christmas books, The Greatest Gift, which my children have banned me from reading aloud as it always makes me cry. This is pure jollity. A little white bear joins in a joyful procession of pipers, peacocks, acrobats, parrots and angels as they dance, fly, prance in a circus and fly off in a balloon before getting the Little Bear ready for bed in a series of rhyming couplets that are as richly mysterious as the pictures. It\’s just right for getting an overexcited 5+ into bed."
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|  | How the Whale Became and Other Stories, written by Ted Hughes and published by Orchard Books in 2000.
Published to great acclaim. Here are some of the reviews;
The Guardian, May 31, 2000. "Ted Hughes's inventive creation fables, sometimes sly and humorous and sometimes lyrical,were first published in 1963. But they have never been seen like this before. This exquisite new edition provides illustrations whose rich, grave, muted, almost medieval beauty are in perfect harmony with the deceptive simplicity of the words."
Gillian Clarke, The Times Ed Supplement 14 April 2000. "..a ravishingly illustrated new edition of a book first published in 1963....The text, and Jackie Morris's light-rinsed landscapes, her painterly washes, her animals as breathingly, quiveringly real as Hughes makes them in words, make this a book well worth its price."
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|  | The Seal Children, written and illustrated by Jackie Morris and published by Frances Lincoln in 2004. For the people of a remote Welsh village, emigrating to a more prosperous life in the New World is no more than a distant dream. But one day Ffion and Morlo, the children of Huw and his selkie wife, recall their mother singing of cities beneath the waves, shining cities of gold and pearls...
This book won the Tir na n-Og Prize, awarded by the Welsh Books Council in 2005. |
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|  | Lord of the Forest, written by Caroline Pitcher and published by Frances Lincoln in 2004. For little Tiger, everything he hears in the forest is exciting and new. But each time he tells his mother, she replies, "When you don't hear them, my son, be ready. The Lord of the Forest is here!" Tiger is puzzled and as he grows, he listens, waits, and asks his friends to help him decide: Who is Lord of the Forest? |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY JACKIE MORRIS The Snow Leopard , Frances Lincoln, 2007 The Seal Children, Frances Lincoln (London, England), 2004 Bears, Bears, and More Bears, (Barron's Hauppauge, NY), 1995 ILLUSTRATED ONLY BY JACKIE MORRIS Starlight, Starbright, by James Mayhew, Barefoot Books, to be published 2008 Singing to The Sun by Vivian French, Egmont to be published August 2008 The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems with an introduction by Carol Ann Duffy, Barefoot Books 2006 Can You See a Little Bear?, by James Mayhew, Frances Lincoln (London, England), 2005 Lord of the Forest, Caroline Pitcher, Frances Lincoln (London, England), 2004 Animals of the Bible, Mary Hoffman, Frances Lincoln (London, England), 2002, Phyllis Fogelman Books (New York, NY), 2003 Miracles: Wonders Jesus Worked, Mary Hoffman, Phyllis Fogelman Books (New York, NY), 2001 Mariana and the Merchild: A Folk Tale from Chile, Caroline Pitcher, Eerdman (Grand Rapids, MI), 2000 How the Whale Became and Other Stories, Ted Hughes, Orchard Books (New York, NY), 2000 Parables: Stories Jesus Told, Mary Hoffman, Phyllis Fogelman Books (New York, NY), 2000 Lord of the Dance, Sydney Carter, Lion (Colorado Springs, CO), 1999 The Time of the Lion, Caroline Pitcher, Beyond Words (Hillsboro, OR), 1998 Grandmother's Song, Barbara Soros, Barefoot Books (Brooklyn, NY), 1998 The Greatest Gift: The Story of the Other Wise Man (based on the story by Henry Van Dyke), Susan Summers, reteller, Barefoot Books (Bath, England), 1997, published as The Fourth Wise Man, Dial (New York, NY), 1998 Out of the Ark: Stories from the World's Religions, Anita Ganeri, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1996 Going Fishing, Juliet Partridge, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1996 The Snow Whale, Caroline Pitcher, Sierra Club Books for Children (San Francisco, CA), 1996 Cities in the Sea, Siân Lewis, Pont Books (Llandysul, Wales), 1996 The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Stars: Myths of the Zodiac, Juliet Sharman Burke, compiler, Barefoot Books (Bath, England), 1996, published as Stories from the Stars: Greek Myths of the Zodiac, Abbeville (New York, NY), 1996 Jo's Storm, Caroline Pitcher, Bodley Head (London, England), 1994 WORK IN PROGRESS The Day That You Were Born, by Sally Lloyd Thomas, Little Brown Tell Me a DragonEast of the Sun and West of the Moon
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. Original artwork from <i>The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems</i>, with an introduction <br>by Carol Ann Duffy and first published 2006 by Barefoot Books. 200mm x 180mm. Watercolour, signed and unmounted £1,109'))
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. Original artwork from <i>How the Whale Became and Other stories</i>, written by Ted Hughes, <br>published in 2000 by Faber & Faber. Dimensions within the mounted are are 155mm x 212mm. <br>Watercolour, signed and mounted £835'))
. Original artwork from <i>How the Whale Became and Other stories</i>, written by Ted Hughes, published in 2000 by Faber & Faber. Watercolour and signed, £74'))
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