San Diego, KFMB-TV,
Channel 8, 7/15/91 Words and Pictures, interview with
Hal Clement
San Diego North County Magazine, May
1991, A Message from Tuzo, Beth Hagman
San Diego Union, 3/8/84 Baldwin
Leaves Her Unique Stamps On Tuzo, David Lewinson
San Diego Union, 4/3/85 Come
Visit the Tiny Wonderland of Alison Baldwin, Marilyn Hagberg
San Diego Home & Garden Magazine,
March 1984, Imagination: Take a Letter, Phyllis Van
Doren
San Diego Evening Tribune, 3/2/79,
Art Review, Jan Jennings
EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE BY MARILYN HAGBERG,
San Diego Union, April
3, 1985:
"Alison Baldwin is an Alice
in Wonderland. In very small paintings and etchings, she entices
the viewer through the picture glass to miniature worlds of rainbow
colors, benign creatures and gardens of delight - magic lands
where nights are Arabian, Pan plays a saxophone and whimsy reigns.
Baldwin's major influences and greatest enthusiasms are compressed
[in her work]: medieval and Persian manuscripts, Moorish and Arabic
designs, Renaissance engravings and the paintings of Paul Klee,
made-up postage stamps of Donald Evans, and storybook illustrations
of Arthur Rackham and Nicola Bayley. A love of nature and fondness
for classical mythology and Egyptian art [is also evident].
Throughout this vivid display of exuberant eclecticism, however,
one sees the vision and handiwork of only one artist. Over the
past decade, Baldwin has developed a marvelously original and
consistent style, a masterful sense of design, [and] an awesome
devotion to detail."
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