Notes from an Island - Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietilå
Notes from an Island - Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietilå In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstroem, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the…
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Notes from an Island - Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietilå
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstroem, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is both a chronicle of this period and a homage to the mature love that Tove and 'Tooti' shared for their island and for each other.Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty. '... The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietila, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the solitude and shifting seascapes.
She was working again. Tooti wandered aimlessly around the island and stood stock still for long periods.I thought I knew what she was doing. Copperplate etchings and wash drawings.Mostly the lagoon, the lagoon as a consummate mirror for clouds and birds, the lagoon in a storm, in fog.
And the granite, first and foremost, the granite, the cliff, the rocks. It's all peace and quiet now.'