See Nikki McClure's art in book, exhibition

"It's all autobiographical," she says by phone from her home there. "Most of these images come from about 200 yards from where I stand right now. There are a few pictures taken from different places -- one from Hawaii, one from Japan. But mostly it's identifiable as my life,...

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Published inOakland tribune (Oakland, Calif. 1991)
Main Author Baine, Wallace
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oakland, Calif Bay Area News Group 04.03.2014
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McClure, Nikki
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Summary:"It's all autobiographical," she says by phone from her home there. "Most of these images come from about 200 yards from where I stand right now. There are a few pictures taken from different places -- one from Hawaii, one from Japan. But mostly it's identifiable as my life, though I would hope that it's universal in some sense." As shown in "Collect Raindrops," [Nikki McClure]'s illustrations focus on everyday human interaction with nature, usually in a harmonious and serene way, whether it's discovering owls at night or playing violin among ferns in the forest. Californians, in fact, might look at the book with a kind of nostalgia, given that it's full of lush greenery -- rendered mostly in black and white -- and, Olympia being where it is on the Puget Sound, with lots and lots of water, in the form of rivers, lakes and rainfall. "I was just doing them; I wasn't really thinking about the long term," she says. "You don't want to sit around and wait for the magic phone call."
ISSN:1068-5936