{"id":45105,"date":"2021-08-20T07:17:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T11:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=45105"},"modified":"2021-08-20T07:17:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T11:17:31","slug":"book-feature-thriving-on-a-riff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/literature\/book-feature-thriving-on-a-riff\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Feature: <em>Thriving on a Riff<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Ben Wood, Creator\/Editor<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-45108\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Book-Feature-1_-Thriving-none-needed-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"283\" \/>Artist Marsha Hammel has spent a lifetime doing what she loves best: painting. Now a new book, <em>Marsha Hammel: Thriving on a Riff | A Life of Art and Music,<\/em> created by a London publishing company, documents Hammel\u2019s art career as well as some of the stories behind her creations. \u201cAbout a year ago, when the project was initiated, Ben Wood wrote to me and asked me to send sketches, essays, poems, writings by other people and any other items that had anything to do with my life and practice,\u201d says Hammel. Meanwhile, a catalogue of her body of work was created from photographs, slides and transparencies. From thousands of images and written works, she adds, was woven \u201ca tapestry of an artist\u2019s life and work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seeing a compilation of her life\u2019s work astonished Hammel and she hopes that others find the book inspirational to their own creative processes. \u201cLooking at my early work from the perspective of 50 years of practice, I find that it inspires me to approach painting now with a renewed perception and a desire to return to my youthful idea that \u2018less is more\u2019,\u201d says Hammel. \u201cMy 25-year-old self has become a teacher to my 71-year-old self.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marsha Hammel: Thriving on a Riff | A Life of Art and Music, <em>June, 2021, nonfiction, hardcover, published by Felix Rosenstiel\u2019s Widow &amp; Son, Ltd., London. 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