Barbara Feldman

Barbara Feldman is a versatile artist whose interest in jewellery making has evolved over the years into a major business which helps to finance other interests such as travel and children's book illustration. Polymer clay, the material she uses for her jewellery, is also the medium she has chosen for the illustrations in the new children's alphabet book which she hopes to have published this fall. In her first two books for children, Going, Going (1989) and Stephen's Frog (1991) Feldman used a technique known as fabric appliqué. By sewing together a rich tapestry of materials collected on her travels around the world, Feldman created pictures which told her stories. Stephen's Frog is a wordless picture book in which children are encouraged to develop their own stories as they explore the details in the illustrations. Feldman's artwork has also appeared in Canadian and American magazines, on record album covers, and hangs in private and public collections.

Selected Bibliography

Books for Children

Stephen's Frog. Written and illustrated by Barbara Feldman. Toronto: Annick Press, 1991.
22 p.: col. ill.; 21 cm. (Annick Toddler Series)
ISBN 1550372009 (bound)
ISBN 1550372017 (pbk.)

Books for Adults

Chick Schwartz. Research and text by Barbara Feldman; original concept and design Michel Forest; photography by François Lafrance; translated by Clotilde Sgard with Yolande Daoust. Sherbrooke, Québec: Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, 1994.
1 portfolio: ill. some col.; 29 cm. (Artchives des Cantons de l'Est 1)
ISBN 2920931040
(French edition of Chick Schwartz)