Twenty-five stories twenty-five paintings five years to write ten years to paint This is an extraordinary collaboration between artist & artist the Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri & the painter Rosemary Clunie Together they have created a world & peopled it with dreams Twenty-five fairy tales for adults these narratives are a response to our times informed by our world but not limited by it imaginative enchanting haunting
- both prescient & prophetic Twenty-five original paintings beautiful playful intimate dreamlike these works pull you in to a land of colour & vision Who can say which came first the word or image when both grew together out of a long friendship & a creative symbiosis What if Calvino & Magritte had combined inspiration? What if we could see our world again with a child's eyes? What if there really is a magic lamp?