Darkling: The Owl's Song
By (Author) Catherine Hyde
Illustrated by Catherine Hyde
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Apollo
4th February 2025
10th October 2024
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Animals in art
Nature in art
Wildlife: general interest
Hardback
96
Prize-winning poet and artist Catherine Hyde celebrates the magic of the night from dusk till dawn as she follows the owls journey in a gorgeous gift book of full colour paintings. I turn to the old orchard where she hunts: a ghost glimmering sweet heart of the moon. Swooping between trees, a beating clock of claw and feather, hush winged, in half light As we sleep, the forest comes to life. The owl swoops. Moths dance in the moonlight, fireflies mimic the stars, a stag grazes, badgers burrow, foxes prowl, ferns catch the dew. Resplendent, arresting artwork sit alongside an original poem. Prepare to be enchanted by the creatures of the night.
Catherine Hyde is a Cornish artist and award-winning illustrator. She trained in Fine Art Painting at Central School of Art in London and is represented in Cornwall by The Lighthouse Gallery, Penzance and in London by Foss Fine Art, Battersea. Catherine has been nominated for The Kate Greenaway Award four times and is recipient of The English Association Best Illustrated Book Award (Key Stage 2). She is illustrator of The Snow Angel written by Lauren St John, published in 2017 by Zephyr, and she has also published two calendars of paintings, The Hare and the Moon and The Bee and the Sun, with Zephyr. catherinehyde.co.uk Twitter: @catherine_hyde Instagram: @catherinehydeartist