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In her late-forties,Tove Jansson, helped by a maverick seaman called Brunström,raced to build a cabinon an almost barren outcrop of rock in the Gulf of Finland.The island was Klovharunand for twenty-six summers Tove and her life partner, the graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä (Tooti), retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by thesolitude and shifting seascapes.
Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is botha memoir and homage to the islandthe two women loved intensely and relinquished only when pressed by age. It is also a unique collaboration between two artists. Tove’sspare, precise prose– diary entries, vignettes and extracts from Brunström’s log – frame thesubtle washes and aquatintscreated by Tooti. Together they forma work of meditative beauty.
Edition: 2021
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