New discoveries

While Shan and I were at Manchester City Art Gallery yesterday we stopped off in the gallery shop and made a discovery, well it was new to us any way!

Charley Harper and his wonderful illustrations. The shop stocked books and games using his images and we spent ages looking at them and I looked him up on the Internet this morning. He died in 2007 but his prints and books are for sale on many sites. The illustrations are so simple but very well observed and I believe he designed many things for non-profit making conservation organisations.

I can see I will have to save my pennies to buy the book 'Charley Harper-An Illustrated Life'

I did mention on yesterday's post the children's book I bought called 'Posy'-

It is written by Linda Newbury and illustrated by Catherine Rayner and is so gorgeous I had to scan some pictures to show you. I have tried in the past to 'link' to Amazon but they never work but it's worth looking up.

This is the back cover. ISBN 978-1-84362-510-0

I made some discoveries in my garden today too......

.......frog spawn in the pond.....


.....tulips in a pot.......

.....crocus in the lawn......

...and Lucy up the apple tree!