THE PAINTER'S POOL, by Jem Southam, sealed, new

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“The Painter's Pool” Photography by Jem Southam Published by Nazraeli Press , Portland, OR, 2006 Offered here SEALED under publisher's wraps and in AS NEW condition is Jem Southam's “The Painter's Pool,” published in 2006 by Nazraeli Press. Jem Southam is known for photographing a single site over time, and his work in “The Painter's Pool” uses this trademark to tell a sad tale. Photographing an area in Stoke Woods tended to by painter Mike Garton over the years, Southam shows us at first the artist's presence in these still lifes with easels and other items left behind, and then his absence as Garton became too ill to continue visiting the location. From the Publisher: “Stoke Woods, in the south west of England, are truly ancient woodland, with records showing them gifted by King Athelston to the Church in Exeter in 953 AD. For painter Mike Garton, these woods – a mixture of oak, beech, ash, wild cherry, sycamore and the more recently introduced larch and Douglas fir – were both his studio and his obsession. Every day for over two decades he would go and capture on canvas what he saw amongst the woodland canopy, leaving his works-in-progress rolled up in hidden dens. He constructed a pool where a tree had fallen across a stream, and secretly tended it for many years. Jem Southam happened upon both painter and pool, and began read more

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