Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Peck, Marilyn

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500920975)

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Format: Paperback
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Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Peck, Marilyn

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

$28.99
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Peck, Marilyn

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

$28.99
Format: Paperback
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This is a story in the Arthurian tradition, written by an anonymous poet probably sometime in the fourteenth century of the Common Era. It survives in a single manuscript copy in the British Museum. Author, poet and artist Marilyn Peck translated the poem from Middle English. She then created 48 watercolour paintings inspired by the poem, and used the paintings to illustrate her book. Most of the paintings are embellished with gold leaf, palladium leaf, or a combination of the two precious metals. Tiny images have been carved into the gilding. Thirty of the paintings are miniatures and they have been reproduced in their actual sizes in the book. The non-miniature paintings are reproduced in full-page size. The author has also created illuminated initials to start each verse of the poem.

Author: Marilyn Peck
ISBN-10: 1500920975
ISBN-13: 9781500920975
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2014
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.39d
By Marilyn Peck
By Marilyn Peck
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Australian-born Marilyn Peck started her art career as a commercial and lithographic artist in 1949. Her creative career began as a fabric designer for two Melbourne manufacturers in 1950s and 1960s. In the 1970s, she started exhibiting as a fine artist and is now recognised in the USA, Canada, UK and Australia as a miniaturist. She was instrumental in the formation of four Australian Societies of Miniature Art and was Founder and foundation president of ASMA Queensland. "The Waste Land Suite", published by Macmillan in 2004 established her as an artist and writer. Her career as a poet started to take off when she won three prizes in the 2005 National poetry and National Short story competition, organised by the Society of Women Writers NSW. From 2011 to the present day, her poetry has been selected for publication in Quadrant. In 2013 she published her first novel, "Dragon Bone Consortium", a thrilling tale set in tropical Queensland and based on the still-missing archaeological relics of Peking Man. She has a website at marilynpeck.com.

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