Karen Brownlee, B.A., A.S.A., Visual Artist
The Sakura Tree has been nominated and shortlisted for the 2008 Alberta Book Publishers Children's Book of the Year.
"My life work, as an artist, has and will continue to focus on Western Canadian prairie cultural history. This desire for preservation has evolved into an expressive visual format."
My paintings are created within the context of remembrances and nostalgia coupled with a sense of loss. Our sense of being is connected to our sense of time. They are indicative of a romance with a declining way of life and relationship to the land. For me, the study of the present and recent past is the pivotal thread for the expression of our histories and the basis for future study. Living is remembering in the rear view mirror.
"Memory is the treasury and the guardian of all things" - Cicero
Sakura Cover
The Sakura Tree
Written by Carolyn McTighe
Illustrated by Karen Brownlee
Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Canada / Post-Confederation • Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Asia
32 Pages • 10 1/4 X 9 1/4"
ISBN 0-88995-354-6 cloth
CDN 19.95 • USA 17.95
release date April 2007
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