Tansy Troy
Boy With No Name , June 2004 ; Hessian and cotton bound hardback, 150 pages + 2 colour plates + 10 line drawings onto millitext paper, white, 17x 23.5cm. Signed and limited edition of 50, £50
Off the Back of a Lorry , April 2001 ; concertina + pop-up felt and muslin bound hard cover; 32 pages, full colour, printed on millitext paper, white, 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Signed and limited edition of 20, £33
Izard Lizard , August 2001 ; concertina + fold-out format; cotton muslin bound hard cover, marbled paper flysheet; 32 colour pages printed on white millitext, backed on brown and burgundy railroad card, 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Signed and limited edition of 30, £28
Heart of the Forest , October 2001 ; khadi rag paper cover, soft bound; 16 pop-up/fold out pages printed on millitext, white. 10 x 11.5cm. Signed limited edition of 20, £25.
Bravo Buffo , March 2002 ; cotton muslin, embroidered cover + cotton page trim: soft bound; 32 full colour pages, printed on millitext, white. 15 x 13 cm. Signed limited edition of 50, £21
CV:
1974 – Born in the sound of Bow Bells to Glaswegian Actor Father and Writer/Painter Mother. Raised in Covent Garden , Greece , Spain , Morrocco and India
1993 – 1997 Read English Literature at King's College, Cambridge . Performed in and made props for The Snow Queen (King's College Fellow's Garden) & Hummingbirds (The Octagon, Cambridge ; the Pleasance Upstairs, Edinburgh ; and The Young Vic Studio, London ). Designed costumes for L'Echarpe Blanche's production of En L'Absence d'Un Clown ( Montpellier , France )
1995- 2005 Wrote and made - and am still writing and making - books, props and masks with and for children age 2-11 in Wales, London, Cambridge, Tokyo (Japan) and Dharamsala (India)
Children are great teachers: working with them, I am reminded how to imagine vividly and create spontaneously. In the books written, illustrated and bound by hand over the past five years, I have tried to make each page come alive with the same magical excitement as first entranced me when I discovered books. I hope these small creations may be read and shared by young people all over the world – and most importantly, that they inspire children everywhere to write, paint and create beautiful books of their own.