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Incredible, as always, August 21, 2004
This review is from: Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front (Hardcover)
As always, I am amazed and stunned at the work produced by this marvelous, funny, talented, brilliant and quirky woman. Her powers of observation and expression are unsurpassed--and infinitely inviting. Her art is rich, detailed, and filled at once with both scientific detail and emotion to which we cannot help but respond. Though my own home area is very far from Hannah's Wyoming Front, I KNOW what it is like to walk there, I KNOW what she means when she writes that she prefers the company of her dog, Sisu, to distracting conversation. I am there, silent, listening, watching, and sketching...thank you, Hannah.
--Cathy Johnson, author of The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature and The Sierra Club Guide to Painting in Nature
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A visual and spiritual feast, August 19, 2004
This review is from: Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front (Hardcover)
Hinchman's illuminated journal welcomes the reader with nature's vast palette in the Front region of Montana. An artist/writer at home in the natural environment where she lives, Hinchman has created a series of stunningly colorful and detailed illustrations, accentuated by hand-lettering throughout.
With her Finnish Spitz, Sisu, at her side, Hannah roams the diverse flora and fauna of the Front, from the fields around her home to Tank Prairie, Redwing Slough, the Game Range and Double Creek. She stops in each place to draw and paint and annotate, her remarkable artwork is a delight, with its attention to minutiae, such as the difference between old snow and new snow, the leaf colorations that define their age, the hunting wasps and caterpillars, blooming wildflowers and artifacts found in the local meadow.
Everything Hannah views with her artist's eye is rendered more accessible and alive. Her simple observations have a spiritual quality, touching on a grandeur that stuns the imagination. With Hannah, we observe the smallest of details, the changes in cottonwood bark, the flowers, spiders and insects of the grassland and even Augusta, Montana's infamous one-day rodeo, where everyone comes out to party.
That Hannah Hinchman is an environmentalist and nature lover is clear in her exquisite artwork. In a town of locals who believe land was created solely for man's use, Hinchman is bound to have other ideas. But she has learned to coexist and make friends, the eccentric artist who minds her own business. She has obvious affection for the town folk and the friends she has made since moving to Augusta.
The author's contribution to the genre of the illuminated journal is a small gem, a book to treasure and peruse, remembering the wonderful bounty of the wilderness. Little Things in a Big Country is reader-friendly, beautifully illustrated and stunningly visual. It serves as an excellent reminder to cherish those areas of the country that still retain their pristine beauty, before the onslaught of big-money backed resource development. In any case, this is the perfect gift, but make sure to save a copy for yourself. Luan Gaines/2004.
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Beautiful Work, May 23, 2005
This review is from: Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front (Hardcover)
"Little Things in a Big Country" is an artistic journal chronicling one year in the artist's life in the eastern part of Montana, known as the Front. The words and watercolors in this book work together beautifully to convey Ms. Hinchman's careful observations of the world of The Front. Her sketches include things as common as seed pods, animal tracks, and ice formations. What a treasure this book is! Reading it gave me a new appreciation for the power of keen observation of the world around me.
This was the first artistic journal I've come across, and as a new (to me, at least) genre of book, the form impressed me.
This is such a calming and inspiring book, one that I will enjoy reading again and again.
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