{"id":2189,"date":"2016-06-14T15:40:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/wp\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2016-06-14T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:44:43","slug":"michael-foreman-exhibition-at-seven-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/wp\/michael-foreman-exhibition-at-seven-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting with Rainbows \u2013 A Michael Foreman Exhibition at Seven Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I finally made it up to Newcastle to catch the National Centre for Children&#8217;s Books, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenstories.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Stories<\/a>\u2019 exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenstories.org.uk\/exhibitions\/painting-with-rainbows\" target=\"_blank\">Painting with Rainbows &#8211; A Michael Foreman Exhibition<\/a>, which closes <em>today<\/em>\u00a0(sorry!). The good news is that it will be heading out on tour: so far, it\u2019s lined up to be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrismuseum.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harris Museum and Art Gallery<\/a>, Preston, from 4th July &#8211; 6th November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through Michael&#8217;s\u00a0long career as an illustrator, beginning with the series of books inspired by his early childhood growing up on the Suffolk\u00a0coast during the Second World War, and indeed by the effects on his childhood of the First World War, which deprived him of ever knowing all four of his uncles. I already knew his autobiographical books <em>War Boy: A Wartime\u00a0Childhood<\/em> and <em>After the War was Over<\/em>\u00a0and I was glad to discover the latest edition of <em>War Game,<\/em> a fictional account of the famous Christmas Day truce and football game in 1914 \u2013 Michael paid tribute to his uncles by naming his characters after them and it\u2019s definitely worth pointing out that this\u00a0\u2018Special 100th Anniversary of WW1 Edition\u2019 published in 2014 (Pavilion Books) has been enhanced with factoids and photographs of artefacts in the margins as well as endnotes profiling football in the First World War and famous footballers, including Walter Tull.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/images\/news\/2016_sevenstories_mf07.jpg\" alt=\"Covers old and new of Michael Foreman\u2019s illustrated accounts of his childhood during and after WW2 (War Boy, awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal, and After the War Was Over); his recent autobiography A Life in Pictures (2015); and historical stories from WW1 (War Game, awarded the Nestl\u00e9 Smarties Book Prize, about the Christmas Dat truce in 1914; and The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha, about a tortoise's journey from Gallipoli to England)\" width=\"700\" height=\"587\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had the great pleasure of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papertigers.org\/interviews\/archived_interviews\/mforeman.html\" target=\"_blank\">interviewing Michael<\/a> in 2011, following the selection of his wonderful book <em>A Child\u2019s Garden: A Story of Hope<\/em> (Walker Books \/ Candlewick Press, 2009) for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papertigers.org\/ptOutreach\/aboutUs_bookSets_2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spirit of PaperTigers Book Set<\/a> (now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterbridgeoutreach.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaterBridge Outreach<\/a>). So I was really hoping to see original watercolours for the book \u2013 and I was not disappointed. They are just so beautiful \u2013 and\u00a0the colours of the plants and the birds burst from the paper,away from the greys that are themselves so well defined against the white background. \u00a0Just like the book, but more so because of the texture and the definition of the originals. \u00a0And I loved their display area, with a huge wooden green plant like the one in the book. I tied my ribbon to it with a wish for peace.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/images\/bookcovers\/a-childs-garden.jpg\" alt=\"A Child's Garden by Michael Foreman (Walker Books, 2009)\" width=\"500\" height=\"544\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/images\/news\/2016_sevenstories_mf05.jpg\" alt=\"Painting With Rainbows - A Michael Foreman Exhibition at Seven Stories: A Child's Garden\" width=\"600\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the other thing I was looking forward to was coming face to face with Michael\u2019s signature blue. I found it, of course: \u00a0especially in illustrations from <em>Why the Animals Came to Town\u00a0<\/em>and <em>The Mozart Question<\/em> (written by Michael Morpurgo), which, set as it is in the holocaust, Michael described as the most\u00a0harrowing work he&#8217;s ever done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/images\/news\/2016_sevenstories_mf04.jpg\" alt=\"Painting With Rainbows - A Michael Foreman Exhibition at Seven Stories: original illustrations od the elephants from the book Why the Animals Came to Town\" width=\"600\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/images\/news\/2016_sevenstories_mf08.jpg\" alt=\"That blue! - Mia's Story, A Child's Garden, Why the Animals Came to Town, and One World by Michael Foreman; The Mozart Question, illustrated by Michael Foreman, written by Michael Morpurgo\" width=\"700\" height=\"143\" \/>Michael gives an uplifting take on &#8216;his&#8217; blue in the exhibition but unfortunately I didn\u2019t take a note of it , though I seem to remember that hope comes into it \u2013 however, here\u2019s how he described it in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papertigers.org\/interviews\/archived_interviews\/mforeman.html\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> in 2011:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/QuotationMark_open_small.jpg\" alt=\"quotation mark - open\" width=\"51\" height=\"40\" \/>That blue is the blue of shallow seas over white sand \u2013 the blue that lifts your heart. The blue of our family\u2019s happiest times.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/QuotationMark_close_small.jpg\" alt=\"quotation mark - close\" width=\"51\" height=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It can\u2019t have been easy deciding which of Michael\u2019s 250+ books to focus on for the exhibition but Seven Stories have risen to the task with their usual aplomb and imagination. The journey through his long career offered insight into the constant strands running through his work: a striving for peace and friendship and looking after each other and our planet \u2013 and football\/soccer, which before the exhibition I hadn&#8217;t realised was such a constant.<\/p>\n<p>So what were other highlights for me?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/favicon-1.png\" alt=\"bullet\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>Finding out about Ali Pasha the well-travelled tortoise in <em>The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha<\/em> (Templar Publishing, 2013), which will be reissued by Square Fish later this year as <em>The Tortoise and the Soldier: A Story of Courage and Friendship in World War I<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/favicon-1.png\" alt=\"bullet\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>The vibrant display around \u00a0<em>The General\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>War and Peas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/images\/news\/2016_sevenstories_mf03.jpg\" alt=\"Painting With Rainbows - A Michael Foreman Exhibition at Seven Stories: 'The General' and 'War and Peas'\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/favicon-1.png\" alt=\"bullet\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>Seeing originals for <em>Mia\u2019s Story: A Sketchbook of Hopes and Dreams<\/em>, Michael\u2019s very special book\u00a0set in Chile about a little girl who, aided by her faithful animals, becomes a symbol of hope in her journey out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/favicon-1.png\" alt=\"bullet\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>Checking out the activities for small (and not so small!)\u00a0visitors &#8211; especially the\u00a0rockpool, with\u00a0rubbish to be separated from the sealife\u00a0(part of the interactive display for \u00a0<em>One World<\/em>) &#8211; and the strong environmental message here and in other parts of the exhibition: It&#8217;s our planet; we need to look after it. It&#8217;s our planet; we all share it and it belongs to all of us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/images\/news\/2016_sevenstories_mf06.jpg\" alt=\"Painting With Rainbows - A Michael Foreman Exhibition at Seven Stories: 'Our World', including the interactive rockpool with sealife and rubbish...\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/images\/news\/2016_sevenstories_mf01.jpg\" alt=\"Painting With Rainbows - A Michael Foreman Exhibition at Seven Stories: 'Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish'\" width=\"600\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/favicon-1.png\" alt=\"bullet\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>Finding out more about Michael&#8217;s friendship and incredibly fruitful collaboration with Michael Morpurgo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/images\/bookcovers\/the-seeds-of-friendship_and_newspaper-boy-and-origami-girl.jpg\" alt=\"Two recent picture books by Michael Foreman: refugee story 'The Seeds of Friendship' (Walker Books, 2015) and the anti-bullying 'Newspaper Boy and Origami Girl' (Andersen Press, 2012)\" width=\"700\" height=\"388\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/favicon-1.png\" alt=\"bullet\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>Being reminded that I really need to seek out Michael&#8217;s recent book, the anti-bullying\u00a0<em>Newspaper Boy and Origami Girl\u00a0<\/em>(Andersen Press, 2012).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/favicon-1.png\" alt=\"bullet\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>Discovering \u00a0and falling in love with\u00a0<em>The Seeds of Friendship<\/em> (Walker Books, 2015), about a refugee boy\u2019s transformative influence on his new inner-city community, through sowing seeds first in a window-box and then, joined by his new friends, anywhere and everywhere\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all the staff at Seven Stories both for this visual treat and for the warm welcome; and thank you also to Michael Foreman\u00a0for continuing to create wonderful picture books. \u00a0And if you haven&#8217;t managed to get to Seven Stories to see the exhibition, it will, as I said at the beginning, be moving to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrismuseum.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Preston<\/a> for the next few months, and you can keep an eye on where it might be going after that, along with all of Seven Stories&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenstories.org.uk\/exhibitions\/touring-exhibitions\" target=\"_blank\">touring exhibitions<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s still not too late to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorswindowsdoors.org\/images\/news\/2016_sevenstories_mf02.jpg\" alt=\"Painting With Rainbows - A Michael Foreman Exhibition at Seven Stories: Say Hello, by Michael and Jack Foreman (Walker Books, 2007)\" width=\"859\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now looking forward to reading Michael&#8217;s autobiography\u00a0<em>A Life in Pictures (<\/em>Pavilion Children&#8217;s Books, 2015) &#8211; and I will be writing more\u00a0shortly\u00a0about Seven Stories&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I finally made it up to Newcastle to catch the National Centre for Children&#8217;s Books, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenstories.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Stories<\/a>\u2019 exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenstories.org.uk\/exhibitions\/painting-with-rainbows\" target=\"_blank\">Painting with Rainbows &#8211; A Michael Foreman Exhibition<\/a>, which closes <em>today<\/em>\u00a0(sorry!). 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