'Essence of Nature' 2023
Author: Herma de Wit-Orobio de Castro
Copy editor: Emma Dingwall
Text contributions: Maartje Wortel,
Piet van Bragt, Marina Aarts
Graphic design: Loes Claessens
Thanks to: Graphics Atelier Hilversum
Paper: Munken Lynx, Forever Rose, Fedrigoni Sirio, SuperBrut, IBO One
Production: Joost Widdershoven, Booxs
Distributor: IDEA Books
Edition: 200
Format: 240 x 320 mm
Pages: 148
€60.00
ISBN: 978-9-09-036908-2
Herma de Wit’s third book, ‘Essence of Nature’ offers a collection of diverse artworks known as monotypes – a printing technique that produces a single, unique print. Her intention is to show the fragility and strength of gathered objects through the medium of the monoprint. The leaves, flowers, and seeds she finds and collects become a memory of a city or country. By using nature to visualise itself, both through its outline and its inner life, De Wit draws our attention to the pure beauty of her subjects. Unlike her previous book, ‘Force of Nature’, which was comprised of black-and-white works, this sequel experiments with colour and coloured paper while exploring new techniques.
'FORCE OF NATURE' 2021
Author: Herma de Wit-Orobio de Castro
Copy editor: Emma Dingwall
Graphic design: Loes Claessens
Thanks to: Graphics Atelier Hilversum
Paper: Munken Print White, Pop’Set black, IBO One
4. Pop’Set black 320 grams
Production: Joost Widdershoven, Booxs
Distributor: IDEA Books
Idea Code: 21185
Edition: 100 (Hand-numbered)
Format: 240 mm x 340 mm
Pages: 60
€50.00
ISBN: 978-90-9034259-7
Herma de Wit’s work, her bronze sculptures, objects, drawings, and etchings, reveal an almost obsessive relationship with nature. The images in this book derive from elements of nature that the Dutch artist has gathered for almost 20 years of travelling across the globe. The leaves, flowers, and seeds she finds and collects become a memory of the city or country. This collection of mainly isolated fragments of flora, thoughtfully bound by cahier-stitching, show the fragility and strength of an object through the medium of the monoprint, a technique she says helps her create poetic images from the most beautiful examples of her collection.
AWARDS: winner of 50 best Books and 50 Covers of 2021. AIGA, New York, USA
‘Herma de Wit - Orobio de Castro, Sculptures and Drawings’ 2018
Foreword: Vincent Van Duysen
Art direction: Maarten Spruyt in collaboration with Herma de Wit
Graphic design: Loes Claessens
Published: MER, imprint of Borgerhoff & Lamberigts BE edited by Herma de Wit - Orobio de Castro in conversation with Luc Derycke
Printed & Bound: Cassochrome, Waregem BE
Edition: 500
Format: 240 mm x 320 mm
Pages: 152
€39.00
ISBN: 978-90-8931-951-7