Pop-Up Picture Book

Susan Jameson

British printmaker Susan Jameson verges on Magritte with her Surrealist landscape, featuring Stonehenge springing upward from an opened book and a cumulus cloud-shaped ocean view, printed from separate plates. Drama in the shadows cast by the stones and the stormy sky above are balanced by the nearly whimsical suggestion of a child’s primary school reader. Jameson achieves a dimensionality that makes the forms seem to float before the viewer, close enough that they could reach out and touch the stony surface.

Jameson was born and raised in Cumbria in north England, described as a “ceremonial” county known for its dramatic landscapes and history.