Yellow Hat Tribe poetry book to be launched in Chipping Norton
Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:57
IRENE Tyack’s popular Yellow Hat Tribe paintings have inspired 67 poems that have been written by Chipping Norton School pupils and printed in a book that will soon be published.
Local primary school pupils also wrote some of the poems included in the book, entitled From 4 to 40 Lines, to be launched at Jaffé and Neale Bookshop and Café, Middle Row, Chipping Norton at 6pm on Monday, November 30.
Television presenter Rob Bonnet, Chipping Norton School headteacher Simon Duffy, author Fiona Mountain and Cornbury Festival director Hugh Phillimore, the book’s sponsor, will be among orators who will each read one of the 13 poems that judging panels have decided are the best in the book.
Each of the 13 poets will receive a prize, with the top two each getting a signed print of the painting that inspired their poem.
Ms Tyack, who will sign copies of her pictures on the night, began painting at the age of 50 after being inspired by her husband’s tales of Africa.
Doodling on the envelope of a bill she could not afford to pay, she drew a picture of a tribe living in a desert and all wearing yellow hats.
She is now based at Brookfield Ostrich Farm Gallery, Church Westcote and has sold many of her paintings for up to £20,000 each.