The Living Silence of the Hours

'The Living Silence of the Hours' is the first publication by Cornish painter Jane Tresidder.

Born in 1944, Jane spent her childhood in Cornwall and completed her foundation course at Falmouth School of Art before attending the Slade between 1965-68. Jane also attended Cecil Collins unique drawing sessions at the Central School of Art. The paintings in the book derive from her interest in Jungian psychology, which she explored in regular sessions with Buntie Wells, and Sufism, which she studied with Irene Tweedie. Through her meetings with the master of the Naqshabandi Sufi order, Mawlana sheik Nazim became a vital example and influence on the artist. Jane presently lives and paints in Cornwall and is studying the early Irish harp with Ruth Wall and at the harp school in Kilkenny, Ireland.

The book is a limited edition of 500 copies.

'The Ney Player'

To a language which is visual, the making of music can only be a silent theme.

When objects are transcribed into the stillness of a painting, their images are re-composed according to the nature of its parameters.

The obstructions {as screens} have moved aside.

A musician who was once a pilgrim has released his shoes.

The golden pigment of the flute is for the consummation of an archetypal sound.

The graceful vulnerability of a female form approaches the beauty of a song which she begins to hear.