Extent: Paperback
Pages: 72
Size: 210 mm x 160 mm
Publisher: Beehive Books
‘This delightful collection of short memory pieces brims with humanity, warmth and wit.’ - Moya Cannon, writer
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‘A charming combination of the written words of Olive Travers, enhanced by the evocative music of pianist Eamon Travers and inspired in image by the wonderful visual artist Barry Britton. This is truly a labour of love.’ - Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, musician
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‘Barry Britton’s draftsmanship combined with his own unique imagination and sense of colour have enriched the lives of all of us who admire his work. In Nets of Wonder Barry’s illustrations are beautifully complemented by Olive Travers’s writing and Eamon Travers’s music, capturing the beauty and wonder of the landscape and human experience through art, story and music.’ - Adrian Dunbar, actor
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‘A book to enlighten every step up that winding street from the River Erne’s banks to the top of Ballyshannon in the company of Olive, the writer, Barry, the artist, and Eamon, the musician. Their combined skills in weaving the local into the universal offers rare and wondrous views from the top of that hill.’ - Colum Sands, singer-songwriter
In an age of working to deadlines, short turnaround time and the desire for instant results, it is a joy to read this beautifully written book – a creative collaboration between Olive, a writer, Barry, an artist and Eamon, a musician. It’s twelve reflections are divided into four seasons – mirroring the ebb and flow of Ireland’s seasons. Each reflection has its own beautiful art work and each piece is accompanied by a musical track (QR Code).
Olive Travers is a regular contributor to RTE Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany and a clinical psychologist. Her writing turns an incisive psychological lens on the memories, travels and experiences of her life in Fermanagh and Donegal, encompassing themes that are both local and universal. The author shows her knowledge, wonder, joys and sorrows from childhood to becoming a mother and now as a proud grandmother with the birth of her newly born grandson. ‘Being alone with this new life, suddenly awes me’ she writes. The miracle of birth moves quickly to her joys and memories of being a teenager in love on Valentines Day 1970. But happiness turns to sorrow with the unexpected death of her brother. Reflections then move to the summer season with ‘Tea in the Hayfield’ while on holiday on a Donegal farm. Beautiful artwork shows fuchsia flaunting its beauty against the back drop of the rugged coast – An Deora Dé. Her memories of the Ballyshannon Music Festivals of the 1980s are now ‘dreamlike, topsy-turvey memories of that special kind of magic’. The winter reflection brings back memories of All Soul’s Day and the death of her father. In the words of Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh, musician – Nets of Wonder is ‘A charming combination of the written words of Olive Travers, enhanced by the evocative music of Eamon Travers and inspired in image by the wonderful visual artist Barry Britton’. This is truly a labour of love.
-- Geraldine Coyle, Tallanstown, Co Louth, Intercom, December 2023/January 2024
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Description
Nets of Wonder is a creative collaboration between Olive, a writer, Barry, an artist, and Eamon, a musician, spearheaded and inspired by Olive’s writings. Its twelve reflections are divided into four seasons, mirroring the ebb and flow of Ireland’s seasons. Each piece of writing has its own themed artwork and musical response, allowing readers to choose their own unique sensory experience.
You are invited to become a collaborator in this creative work, to unpack and unfurl these pieces according to your mood and to find your own unique path to entanglement in these nets of wonder.
About the Authors:
Olive Travers is a regular contributor to RTÉ Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellanyand a clinical psychologist. Her writing turns an incisive psychological lens on memories, travels and experiences from her rural childhood in Fermanagh and family life in Donegal, encompassing themes that are both local and universal. She has extensive television and radio experience, including appearances on the Late Late Show.
Barry Britton is a pen-and-ink artist born and bred in the hills of Donegal. He is best known for his folk festival and surfing posters. A pioneer surfer from the sixties, he is riding the wild Atlantic waves to this day.
Eamon Travers is a composer, music educator and multi-instrumentalist specialising in traditional Irish, jazz and folk music.
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