"Mother and Daughter", pages 5 - 8...

Mother and Daughter

Peter Schmidt



A book, 1974
Hand colored images of his mother Erika and daughter Valentine...

Pages 5-8

"Mother and Daughter", pages 1-4...

Mother and Daughter

Peter Schmidt

A book, 1974

Hand colored images of his mother Erika and daughter Valentine...

Pages 1-4

"The Thoughts..."

Peter Schmidt's The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts has been published as a chap book by Mindmade Books of Los Angeles with an afterward by me.

To order a copy, please visit: www.mindmadebooks.com



"Mother and Daughter"...

"Mother and Daughter"

Peter Schmidt, 1974

A book, in an edition of 20

Printed and published at Watford School of Art

I recently spent some time with Valentine's copy, 1/20.  This book depicts the metamorphosis of an image of Erika, Peter's mother, into an image of Valentine, his daughter, who was about 12 years old at the time.

In the days and weeks ahead, I will be posting images from Mother and Daughter...



Peter's Icelandic summer after sunset...

"From Breiðafjörður after sunset"

Peter Schmidt

Iceland, summer 1979

Watercolor

(Collection of John Emr)

A gift from Valentine