Wild Folk

Jackie Morris is an author, illustrator and artist. She lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales, UK. She loves colour, cats, birds and flight, walking, reading, magic and dragons, kites, dandelion clocks, dogs and horses (especially the black and white heavy footed kind with great liquid eyes) and many other things. Above the house where she lives is a rare thing, a dark sky where stars are clear and visible, and every night she walks, watching the moon wax and wane and the stars turn across the ocean of air. If she could have one special thing it would be a time machine so that the days could be longer. She has written and illustrated a few books.

'Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott are spell-makers. These are sonorous tales, iridescent with enchantment and power. Stories of transformation, loss and defiance, exploring that much-forgotten border between the natural and supernatural worlds. The illustrations, made on glass, are luminous, remarkable things.' Kerry Andrew, author of We Are Together Because'Wild Folk is a wondrous weaving of story and image, glass and ink, dream and song, created together by two makers at the height of their huge powers, who also happen to be dear friends with one another. Born of love and collaboration, the art here holds light that spills and fills, and spaces in which to breathe and swim.' Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive? 'A glorious and unforgettable book told masterfully through the perfect combination of words and images. Exquisitely beautiful, it will sing to your very soul.' Liz Hyder, author of The Twelve'A magically beautiful work of creative re-membering (and) re-ensoulment...Singing to the marrow of our bones, this is how the old gods rise. It's glorious. Read it and live.' Manda Scott, author of Any Human Power'It is going to be a treasure...a legacy book. Timeless, precious, something to be gifted and kept for generations.' Kate Humble, broadcaster and author'A book of true wonder tales, in which the old is made new and the new is made timeless. Its pages shine with wildness, each glass picture a portal to those dream worlds that crackle and shimmer within and around us.' Zoe Gilbert, author of Folk and Mischief Acts