Wesley W. Bates Fiction endlessly condemned to freedom and

endlessly condemned to freedom and dissolution

from the geographical and temporal

At Water’s Edge and Portraits of Flowers (all published by The Porcupine’s Quill) as well as in his own handmade editions

by the artist) becomes an act of homage

the irascible

Wesley W. Bates Fiction endlessly condemned to freedom andWesley W. Bates was born in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. One of Canadas best known wood engravers, Bates has ventured into book illustration (W. O. Mitchells The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon), film (Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry), commercial art (the voyageur motif for Upper Canada Brewery), letterpress publishing (through his West Meadow Press) and acoustic old time music played on a vintage 1920s mandolin. A collection of his