Kelsey Ashe, author and artist.
Pre-publication reviews of 'The Deep Green Sea'
“Surreal and Magical. Your book pulls me in and out of the present and I fall into your drawings as if I am inside the dream. Your words flow like water or a steady beating drum. And all colour evaporates, it’s just ‘chiaroscuro’, contrasting light and shadows. It’s like being asleep and being woken with a phrase or command that suddenly causes you to remember…. Everything! It’s beautiful.”
Kate Ceberano AM: Singer/Songwriter.
Melbourne, Australia.
“A spellbinding homage to the daughter of a Selkie, Kelsey Ashe continues to mesmerize across this ecological allegory. Her exquisitely illustrated Deep Green Sea will ferry readers off to Avalon. Imagine the break of Hokusai’s wave in the chambers of a surrealist grotto. Or beach-combing Angela Carter’s "new wine in old bottles" on an Antipodean shore.”
Dr. Catriona McAra: Author, Feminist Surrealism in the Contemporary Novel.
Fife, Scotland, UK.
“The Deep Green Sea is a challenging and mind-bending tale that commands profound self-introspection. Both a questing adventure and spiritual journey, the story accounts for times in our lives when everything is turned completely upside down by grief or traumatic circumstance. Equally harrowing as it is beautiful, the otherworldly setting Ashe has created is full of strong female characters who forge on through every setback.”
Kate Walsh: American Actress, Grey’s Anatomy, Emily in Paris, et al.
New York, USA.
“This exquisite book ignites the imagination in ways I could not have predicted, encouraging pause for thought and inviting deep reflection. It had me aching one minute and elated the next. If it were possible to live inside a painting and a poem all at once, this is the place. It feels almost channelled and entwined with real life and a higher realm.
My mind was exercised within an inch, with imagery so rich, raw and vivid.”
Anastasia Carlson: Dramaturge & Live Storyteller,
Perth, WA.
“What a story. I was taken on such a trip. The journey you take the reader on is a metaphor for life, filled with pain and suffering, redemption but ultimately one of love. A journey we all take…woven it into a surreal story, a world of powerful women, of wonder. It is a rare jewel that can lay their soul bare with such honesty, beauty and grace, embracing the chaos of life to weave a story so wonderful. You have captured something magical.”
Jim Cable: Artist.
Fremantle, Western Australia.
“The Deep Green Sea is a deeply mystical tale of life and death, birth and rebirth, and the path we walk as celestial beings between worlds. The journey of Roe, Orla, and the many guides who make part of their story come alive, provides the reader with a rich account of what it means to accept our light and fear, to know how destiny and fate shape our human journey, and the understanding that our power resides deep
within our own soul.”
Claire Falcon: Author, Psychic Medium, Intuition Teacher.
Berlin, Germany.
“An absolutely captivating tale. It is a timeless, archetypal journey that resonates so deeply. Amazingly immersive…with its vivid wordscapes and windswept artwork, this story
had me spellbound.”
Edward Sparks: Author, The Glow.
Perth, Western Australia.
“Lush and Haunting. A tale as mysterious and mesmerising as the sea. For lovers of fairytales, mythology, the surreal and magical. Kelsey Ashe’s lyrical words shimmer in the liminal space of dreams and memory. Kelsey, a word and art witch, has cast a glistening magic charm which, like all fairy tales, will help you transcend life challenges as you submerge into the underworld of her fantastical deep green sea.”
Josephine Pennicott: Author, The Circle of Nine dark fantasy trilogy,
Poet’s Cottage and Currawong Manor.
NSW, Australia.
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