The Encounters Trilogy
These three essays were produced as separate works but now seem to make a set and work as a trilogy. Their related themes are a set of variations on the psychological effects of encounters with the natural world. Click on a title to read the essay.
Encounter Three: What am I Doing Here?
The Book of Anomalies
This may be one of the strangest books you will ever open.
The mysterious pictures presented here are subject to the mechanisms in our brains which seek to fill gaps in our perceptions with best-fit guesses. Our brains are very good at this and when looking at the designs here, you will find yourself creating narratives where only anomalous images are shown. In this sense you will become, in part, a co-creator of the book. In 36 pictorial variations and attached cartouches a whole new world is created for you to explore and ponder on.
The Lost Traveller’s Dream.
Written and illustrated by Garry Kennard this book contains 68 ink drawings. They trace an improvised and phantasmagoric odyssey.
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The Lemon Tree Suite
A book by Garry Kennard containing 100 watercolours and drawings with a Taoist background.
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Circlings
A book by Garry Kennard containing 100 ink drawings related to Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’.
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DANCE
This is a small book which might raise a smile, and for people to not only feel the energy of rhythm through these slight drawings but maybe stand up and – well – DANCE!
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Essays and Images by Garry Kennard
The distinguished science writer, Rita Carter, writes in her preface:
‘Certainly this beautiful book will engage and satisfy readers and viewers on many different levels. Combining images and symbols, and forging first and second-person perspectives, it creates an unusually fully-rounded view of one human mind at work’.
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The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars
by Paul Broks
with illustrations by Garry Kennard
‘[A] beautifully written investigation of grief … As an exploration of love and loss, as a portrait of a person and of the nature of personhood, this book is about as true as any I have read’ James McConnachie, Sunday Times
‘Interalia’ magazine published a conversation between Paul Broks and Garry Kennard about the creation of the book. They also included all the images made for the book including many which were not used.
The link is here – Interalia.
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Mirror and Stone
The great Renaissance artist, Michelangelo Buonarotti, il divino, is renowned for his many artistic masterpieces. It is less known that he wrote over 300 poems, many of them expressing his profound feelings, beliefs and conflicts about art and life. Through original poems, translations and drawings, the poet Caroline Maldonado and artist, Garry Kennard, offer a personal response in homage to Michelangelo’s visual and written work.
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The Convergence
Rembrandt and Spinoza
A play by Garry Kennard
This play was given a public reading by The Hampstead Players in 2015. Texts for the stage and the radio versions are available to read or download.
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INTERROGATIONS
This new play, concerning a man who, showing signs of early onset dementia, is actually seeing things ‘clearly’, a state which causes the disintegration of his family. Click on the title/picture above for the full text.
