Welcome to Forest Island (2009) HC

1st printing. Art by Bwana Spoons.

Welcome To Forest Island is the flagship monograph by Bwana Spoons, a painter, designer, screenprinter and zine rocker whose work has been featured on a dizzying array of shoes, skateboards, apparel, baby strollers, and gallery walls worldwide All 128 full-color pages – including paintings, maps, sketches, short comics, and more – are dedicated to Forest Island: the wild, hyperchromatic paradise Spoons has constructed with his art. Rendered in swaths of psychedelic fluorescents in a flurry of wild yet delicate brushwork, this book’s explosive pages establish Spoons as an artist whose furious imagination is matched only by the intimacy of his handskills. Cloth-covered and case-bound with metallic stamping and custom embossing, this full-color compendium heralds not only the birth of a wild and wooly nation, but also the arrival of a major new force in the art world.

Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $30.00. NOTE: price tag on back