Feb 6, 2014

PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN - Jennifer Clement

Illustrator Martin O'Neill talks about the cover for Prayers for the stolen:

‘The idea of the sunburst developed from a collage I had made a few years ago. I made the strips from a range of Mexican / Spanish themed textures and found ephemera. Collecting vintage Spanish packaging, religious prayer cards, old Mexican passports, worn out playing cards, strips of old wallpaper and some South American fabric samples ­ around 200 strips were hand cut then edited and worked into the final wraparound background.

I also created a collage for the inlay papers, working on the premise of
an art therapy collage made by a non artist, something made in a prison
collage workshop. It was interesting to try and undo my compositional
habits and also cut things out badly or roughly to try and get a naive /
art brut feeling to the artwork.’

Prayers for the Stolen will be published by Hogarth in February 2014

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