British illustrator Claire Scully turns her pen-and-ink to a Lake Tahoe destination in a beautifully illustrated book, “Desolation Wilderness,” out now from Avery Hill Publishing. Scully is an artist with a particular interest in landscape and memory. “Desolation Wilderness” forms part of her ongoing work looking at how one’s relationship with the environment and interactions with place have a profound effect on memory and emotions.
Drawn from Scully’s memory and imagination of places visited on an American road trip, “Desolation Wilderness” is a collection about the idea of place. Each of these landscapes is a starting point to a much bigger adventure that strives to answer the question of what lays beyond the horizon.
She spent nearly two months in the region in 2017 creating this project and will revisit Desolation Wilderness and the Lake Tahoe region this summer to continue the project.
