original art
BARBARA SALVATORE
Big Horse Woman
Planting Creek
Water Willow's Dream
Water Willow's Bow
Buffalo Eye
Horse Hug
Gangly Colt
Sumac
The Trail
Magghie's Spiral Gardens
MAGGHIE
Magghie
Maye and Magghie
Wildflower Garden
Together to Gather
were replaced with ‘chapter books,’ garnished with minimal chapter illustrations.
Why did picture books end when we reached a certain age?
This bothered me.
That’s when I hatched my plan —
When I grow up, I will make stories with pictures for grownups!
My stories will come alive in pictures; children and grownups will know
what wildflowers looks like, even if they’re city dwellers.
If they’ve never seen a blue heron, I will show them.
In the turning of the pages, there will be vines climbing margins
and chipmunks scurrying across the page
geese flying south overhead.
So, I drew everything I could, and one day while sketching a boy sleeping on the city bus to high school, a fellow passenger asked
Did I ever considered going to Art School?
YES!!!! Art School! Yes! I answered.
That’s exactly where I want to go!
He was a Professor at Rhode Island School of Design!
and wrote me a recommendation letter!
Next thing I knew, I was a summer student at RISD,
and then onward, to Parsons School of Design
in New York City!
I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing and Painting,
from The School of Visual Arts.
And now…
Pictures in every Story.
