Unearthing the story
in your work and process
Art is profoundly difficult, profoundly demanding, profoundly generous and profoundly rewarding.
We can help you display your work with that profundity revealed to create a rewarding relationship with your audience.
What we do
The Wonderbook helps an artist to identify the stories that are resident in their creative process; from inspiration to action, genesis to completion. There are numerous aspects which can be expanded to reveal philosophy and intentions.
We help describe these conversations and present them in a way that illuminates a piece of work in the audience mind, short-circuiting the modern social propensity to pass over something if it is too difficult. We allow room to pause and absorb these stories to connect with the artwork more intimately.
Our recent stories
Why I think Johnny Bull is a Superhero
and his journey through Jospeh Campbell' 'Supernatural Wonder'
Nigel Bird
The sensual, elemental experience of landscape informs the process of making
Debbie Lee – Drawing down with Dante
Drawing down Dante's Inferno Debbie Lee Out of the Woods - painting on metal Meeting Introduction Support Solitude Danger Motherhood
Jurgi Moor – to the line drawn
TO THE LINE DRAWN Jurgi Moor I first saw Jurgi's work on Instagram. The painting that caught my immediate attention
Phyllis Wolff – getting to the heart of it
An introduction to Phylis Wolff - the painter, her relish for poetry and the direct way of producing honest painting
Johnny Bull – Little Utopias
LITTLE UTOPIAS Johnny Bull I’m meeting with Johnny at his studio on the outskirts of the beautiful Dorset town of
Chris Edwick – diverging from Rothko
RETHINKING ROTHKO ...but there isn’t any element of choice involved. Right now I find I’m in an interesting dialogue with
David Marl – The thin place
THE THIN PLACE David Marl I became aware of the paintings of David Marl over a decade ago. I saw