Water Rising
Leila Philip and Garth Evans
New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-89823-336-0
"Water Rising is a marvelous collaboration between an artist and a writer, in which lines and colors and words blend and merge to celebrate a small corner of the world. Garth Evans and Leila Philip teach us how to see a place anew, 'as if a secret were breaking open.' And now that we know the secret, which is that every place demands love and attention, nothing will ever be the same again.”
-Christopher Merrill, The Trees of the Doves
"In this exquisite collection, Water Rising, the sublime watercolors of Garth Evans and the lyrical meditations of Leila Philip reflect those tides that rise and course within our lives and through the natural world, in both cases tracing the indelible watermarks that have been left behind. Whether grounded in our intimate daily experience or our artistic hopes and desires, the paintings and poems of Water Rising celebrate our insistence that, in the face of much darkness, we will continue to live along the shores of light and great beauty."
-David St. John, Study for the World's Body
Matthias Waschek, Director of Worcester Art Museum, discusses Water Rising