Spring Garland

Spring Garland is the result of the serendipitous conjunction of two artistic trajectories, the graphic afflatus of wood engraver Gerard Brender a Brandis and the lyrical fancy of poet E. Russell Smith. Both take pleasure and inspiration in nature, in this case in the world of spring flowers. Strangers to each other before this collaboration began, they quickly discovered a felicity of intention. The result is a collection wherein each print conveys a solitude which its poem penetrates, and each lyric evokes a myth that the engraving reinforces. These are pages to be reflected on repeatedly, and at leisure.