GHOST WATER KISS
Collecting four previously-self-published illustrated stories (Frostbitten, Once Deer, Sargasso, and She Loves) alongside four new pieces, Ghost Water Kiss, “is a collection of illustrated short stories woven through with mysterious transformations and attuned to the rhythms of the natural world. In the stories of GHOST WATER KISS, seas are filled with weird songs that rise from the deep, forests are populated by shambling, mossy ‘Once Deer’ and bear-armed caretakers, and bodies shift from what they were to something strange and new.”
Published by Popnoir Editions in spring 2019, Ghost Water Kiss is 224 pages long and full-colour-offset printed.
Read an interview about the book published in Apt613
“Miss Bartram’s art is suffused with such exuberance and joy as to revitalize one’s eye- to redirect it upon the world with renewed hunger and curiosity. The potent mixture of innocence and control of the medium makes her color work quite hard to resist. Her art is meditative, absorbing and minutely crafted. These are the travel notes of a biologist/botanist with Hans Christian Andersen and Arthur Rackham soul. Through her annotations about our world and her own, we are revealed a landscape of enormous inner and outer beauty.”