Tess Guinery

This romantic fusion of art--poetry, prose, and unbridled creativity--was birthed from one soul's season of adventure and unraveling, inviting us to surrender the great for the greater. What started as a break from Australian artist Tess Guinery's rapidly growing design business turned into an instinctive, playful experiment with words, colors, and sounds--and eventually into a tangible book, The Apricot Memoirs. This collection of poetry and prose, thoughtfully illustrated and printed on colored paper, is infused with grace and playfulness. It explores love, personal growth, creativity, spirituality, vulnerability, and motherhood in the art medium of words, all the while creating a rich portrait of a deeply empathetic, talented, and whimsical artist. Esoteric, mysterious, and unfailingly beautiful, The Apricot Memoirs is an invitation to dig deep, embrace the uncomfortable, and free your creativity, unbound.

The Apricot Memoirs

Lucía RG

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           *I was kindly sent this in exchange for an honest review via Netgalley*

I was promised art, poetry and prose, but I only got short poems and really short poems and some cute doodles.

With this collection of poems I have the same problems that I do with most; there are so many pages filled with 1 or 2 line poems. There are good messages within these poems, but as it tends to happen, I feel that these disperse lines should’ve formed part of a bigger poem, and I would have liked it better. I don’t think “I’m clumsy; crazy & about you” should be considered a poem on its own, even if I don’t like to claim what is poetry and what isn’t. 

Also, it has very religious poems; not a bad thing per se but just not my vibe. The cover and title don’t give religious vibes, if that makes sense.

The edition was gorgeous; I loved the rainbows and the peachy colour of the pages was a very nice touch. It was nice that the colour of the font was easy to read, because when the pages are coloured, it is not always the case. Honestly, the fact that I liked the edition so much is what makes me give it 2 stars, because the content was just not for me.

This romantic fusion of art—poetry, prose, and unbridled creativity—was birthed from one soul’s season of adventure and unraveling, inviting us to surrender the great for the greater. What started as a break from Australian artist Tess Guinery’s rapidly growing design business turned into an instinctive, playful experiment with words, colors, and sounds—and eventually into a tangible book, The Apricot Memoirs. This collection of poetry and prose, thoughtfully illustrated and printed on colored paper, is infused with grace and playfulness. It explores love, personal growth, creativity, spirituality, vulnerability, and motherhood in the art medium of words, all the while creating a rich portrait of a deeply empathetic, talented, and whimsical artist. Esoteric, mysterious, and unfailingly beautiful, The Apricot Memoirs is an invitation to dig deep, embrace the uncomfortable, and free your creativity, unbound.

The Apricot Memoirs

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