Book: Crossing a Threshold

Status: for sale

Created: 5/2025

Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"

CROSSING A THRESHOLD will be of interest to anyone that is curious about journeys in general. This book is a personal journey with pictures about the trip. A travelogue. Young artists may find that it helps them solidify their journey no matter which path they eventually choose. For those that just like art, the book is another point of view about art and image. Art is not just an object, but rather it is a highway, searched for new places to see and know.

Image making, itself, can become a tool for learning, similar to the knowledge gained by reading a book. The acquisition of the basic skills required for the paint/draw process are outlined. Image search and process unite to philosophically change one's point of view about life. Ian Garrioch unpacks visual language, this other mode of knowing. Through a gathering of his paintings and text, he charts an exploration of the visual alphabet. Decades of thought about life, art, history, our environment and political trends solidify into points of view explored though over seventy images of the artist's work accompanying the text.

Images: 75 images in premium colour
Pages: 147
Price: $48.00

ISBN:

978-1-03-833854-9 (Hardcover)

978-1-03-833853-2 (Paperback)

978-1-03-833855-6 (eBook)


Book review:

To view the world through the eyes of an artist is the threshold that Ian Garrioch invites his readers to cross. As engaging as his magnificent paintings are, his thoughts on the creative process give us insights into how we can more meaningfully understand ourselves and the world in which we live. This is a book for art lovers, for practicing artists, and the actively curious. This is a book that will enrich us all.

Patricia Jean Smith- Author.


Friesen Press book nomination:
Staff Pick: Crossing A Threshold has been nominated by our staff as one of their favorite books.