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Lela Harris is a self-taught artist who lives and works in the English Lake District. Most of her time is either spent daydreaming about art or making art in her small home studio. A key component of her work is experimenting with materials, discovering new techniques and exploring different subject matters, resulting in an eclectic mix of work. The Folio book of The Color Purple was Lela’s first professional illustration commission. Lela is also a graphic designer and the owner of Doodlelove, a company specialising in limited-edition prints and stationery.
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About the Illustrator
Lela Harris is a self-taught artist who lives and works in the English Lake District. Most of her time is either spent daydreaming about art or making art in her small home studio. A key component of her work is experimenting with materials, discovering new techniques and exploring different subject matters, resulting in an eclectic mix of work. The Folio book of The Color Purple was Lela’s first professional illustration commission. Lela is also a graphic designer and the owner of Doodlelove, a company specialising in limited-edition prints and stationery.
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About the Illustrator
Lela Harris is a self-taught artist who lives and works in the English Lake District. Most of her time is either spent daydreaming about art or making art in her small home studio. A key component of her work is experimenting with materials, discovering new techniques and exploring different subject matters, resulting in an eclectic mix of work. The Folio book of The Color Purple was Lela’s first professional illustration commission. Lela is also a graphic designer and the owner of Doodlelove, a company specialising in limited-edition prints and stationery.
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About the Illustrator
Lela Harris is a self-taught artist who lives and works in the English Lake District. Most of her time is either spent daydreaming about art or making art in her small home studio. A key component of her work is experimenting with materials, discovering new techniques and exploring different subject matters, resulting in an eclectic mix of work. The Folio book of The Color Purple was Lela’s first professional illustration commission. Lela is also a graphic designer and the owner of Doodlelove, a company specialising in limited-edition prints and stationery.
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About the Illustrator
Lela Harris is a self-taught artist who lives and works in the English Lake District. Most of her time is either spent daydreaming about art or making art in her small home studio. A key component of her work is experimenting with materials, discovering new techniques and exploring different subject matters, resulting in an eclectic mix of work. The Folio book of The Color Purple was Lela’s first professional illustration commission. Lela is also a graphic designer and the owner of Doodlelove, a company specialising in limited-edition prints and stationery.
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About the Illustrator
Lela Harris is a self-taught artist who lives and works in the English Lake District. Most of her time is either spent daydreaming about art or making art in her small home studio. A key component of her work is experimenting with materials, discovering new techniques and exploring different subject matters, resulting in an eclectic mix of work. The Folio book of The Color Purple was Lela’s first professional illustration commission. Lela is also a graphic designer and the owner of Doodlelove, a company specialising in limited-edition prints and stationery.
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James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son (1955) and The Fire Next Time (1963) were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honour.
Hilton Als is a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer and theatre critic for the New Yorker. He has curated numerous exhibitions, teaches at Berkeley and Columbia universities, and is a former staff writer for the Village Voice as well as a contributor to many other publications, including the New York Review of Books. Als’s own books include White Girls (which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award) (2013) and, most recently, My Pinup: A Paean to Prince (2022). Long associated with Joan Didion, he curated the Didion exhibition at the Hammer Museum in LA and has written extensively about her.