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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

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Visual Notebooks

My visual notebooks record sensory impressions, preserve plant samples and preserve my immediate experience in the landscape. The notebooks are a source of inspiration for me,  helping me to retrieve the raw impact of a place or time.  Here are some selections from the past two decades.

Slocan Pool Trail

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  It is hard to explain how and why certain small details of the landscape speak to me.  Sometimes it is colour. Others texture.  Others still a sort of curiosity about what something is, how it got there.  In this case, it was the sheer visual beauty of the colours of the bark, only vaguely […]

Filed Under: Upper Columbia River Region, Visual Notebooks

Mark Creek near Kimberley, B.C.

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  An afternoon walking along Mark Creek in Kimberly, B.C.  Everything was rusted by a late-autumn season.  I gathered the rusted pieces up and taped them onto the page.

Filed Under: Upper Columbia River Region, Visual Notebooks

Pend d’Oreille River

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

    One of my earliest notebook entries from 1999 — this takes me back to a golden, late summer day.

Filed Under: Upper Columbia River Region, Visual Notebooks

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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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