Showing posts with label Jacqueline Rawes Strickland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacqueline Rawes Strickland. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

This is what Mail art looks like ...

…when it takes 27 years to make!


've known Jacquie since our son (now in his late twenties) with a babe in arms.  We have shared three countries  and she visited my mother on Cranberry Island when i wasn't there once. Until now, Jacquie has never exchanged mail art with me. To receive this postcard, so full of the joys of spring, it's light, abundance and temperature was a truly special surprise. Jacquie tells me this is her first foray with watercolours in fifteen years. If I'd known she could do this, I would have demanded a correspondence, long ago. 

May in the UK is a very special time and perhaps we are noticing it more now, confined to a small space. I don't know if Jacquie was looking at this or if she has conjured the image but it speaks to me of the stillness of this May.  I also see cultures merging and if you listen, I'm sure you can hear a great spotted woodpecker!

Thank you, Jacquie. Yes, it IS mail art.