Beautifully illustrated and unaffectedly written, Wild Roses is an honest but loving remembrance of the homesteading era in northern Alberta in the thirties and forties, and the resolute people who endured it. Artist and author dutchie Rutledge-Mathison uses vivid colors and a primitive style in her paintings. Woven among the bold images are the author's powerful stories that touch the emotions and reveal the hardships, and the joys, of the homesteading life.
Using vivid colors and a primitive style, dutchie's images evoke a strong and uncompromising land settled by people who laughed and cried, struggled and succeeded, and most of all endured. Woven among the bold images are powerful but simply told stories that touch the heart and reveal the hardships, and the joys, of the homesteading life. |
