Artist, Writer
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Pnina Granirer – www.pninagranirer.com
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Some of the paintings featured in the book will be exhibited and the books will be available during the whole time of the opening and during my open studio a week later.
Some reviews:
This poignant collection serves as an important reminder of the fragile and tenuous nature of our own existence, the incredible power of art, love, community and the awe- inspiring mystery, beauty and hope we can all find when we take the time to reconnect with nature and ourselves.
– Paul F. Crawford Director/Curator at Penticton Art Gallery
Powerful themes of war, plague, sadness, joy and memory, questioning the human condition with delicacy and compassion.
– Lillian Boraks-Nemetz Author of Out of the Dark
Recording of Pnina Granirer’s talk at the book launch of her poetry/art book, Garden of Words, on February 9, 2022, at the Jewish Book Festival in Vancouver, BC.
Garden of Words has been the recipient of lots of media in recent weeks.
On February 4, ahead of her presentation at Vancouver’s Jewish Book Festival, The Vancouver Sun ran this interview.
On January 28, The Jewish Independent wrote: Garden of Words is a beautiful mix of Granirer’s painted “words” and her written ones, her more distant past and recent experience.”
And, this past week, Montecristo Magazine ran this feature article on Garden of Words.
Granville Island Publishing has created a new press release for Pnina’s upcoming book, Garden of Words. You can read it by following this link.
(January 24, 2022): Granville Island Publishing today announced the release of Garden of Words by poet and painter Pnina Granirer.
An acclaimed visual artist for over 60 years, Pnina Granirer has also written poetry all her life. In this collection, she offers personal reflections that are at once joyous, sharp and heartbreaking. The sculpted stones in the Gulf Islands, the joy of watching dancers’ bodies in movement, the shadow of a new plague—each vivid vignette expresses Granirer’s wish “to plant a garden of words in [her] field of colours.”
Pnina Granirer was born in Romania and lived in Israel, the US and France before coming to Canada in 1965, where she developed a career as a visual artist, showing locally, nationally and internationally. An extensive archive on her work and life can be found in the collection of the British Columbia Artists’ Archive at the University of Victoria, BC. The Trials of Eve, a limited-edition, award-winning book including drawings and poems was published in 1989. PNINA GRANIRER; Portrait of an Artist by Ted Lindberg was published in 1998 on the occasion of her 40th Retrospective Exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery. Her memoir Light Within the Shadows appeared in 2017.
Poetry / Art
24 paintings in full colour
ISBN: 978-1-989467-57-2 (softcover)
ISBN: 978-1-989467-58-9 (ebook)
7 x 7 in. – 116 pages
$24.95 CDN
Granville Island Publishing www.granvilleislandpublishing.com
“This poignant collection serves as an important reminder of the fragile and tenuous nature of our own existence, the incredible power of art, love, community and the awe- inspiring mystery, beauty and hope we can all find when we take the time to reconnect with nature and ourselves.”
– Paul F. Crawford
Director/Curator at Penticton Art Gallery
“[Granirer] doesn’t shout but almost whispers the powerful themes of war, plague, sadness, joy and memory, questioning the human condition with delicacy and compassion.”
– Lillian Boraks-Nemetz Author of Out of the Dark
and Mouth of Truth: Buried Secrets