{"id":84107,"date":"2019-09-06T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/?post_type=d_artist&#038;p=84107"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:41:50","slug":"maisie-matilda","status":"publish","type":"d_artist","link":"https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/pl\/artist\/maisie-matilda\/","title":{"rendered":"Maisie Matilda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 49%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Maisie Matilda, Fore-Edge Painter and Artist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maisie-jackson-artwork-fore-edge-painting-portrait.webp\" alt=\"maisie jackson artist photo portrait\" class=\"wp-image-84115 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maisie-jackson-artwork-fore-edge-painting-portrait.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maisie-jackson-artwork-fore-edge-painting-portrait-218x300.webp 218w, https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maisie-jackson-artwork-fore-edge-painting-portrait-22x30.webp 22w, https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maisie-jackson-artwork-fore-edge-painting-portrait-370x509.webp 370w, https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maisie-jackson-artwork-fore-edge-painting-portrait-95x130.webp 95w, https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maisie-jackson-artwork-fore-edge-painting-portrait-189x260.webp 189w, https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maisie-jackson-artwork-fore-edge-painting-portrait-65x90.webp 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maisie first encountered Fore-Edge painting while studying manuscript illumination during her degree in Art History at the\u00a0<strong>University of Bristol<\/strong>. Fore-edge painting is an old art form where detailed watercolor scenes are painted directly onto the edges of a book&#8217;s pages<\/p>\n<p>During the 2020-2021 Covid lockdown, Maisie attempted the craft herself for the first time. That experiment unlocked a deeper commitment to both the craft itself and to making it accessible to new audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Fore-Edge painting now appears on the Red List of Critically Endangered Crafts maintained by the Heritage Crafts Association UK, and she works to counter that by sharing the craft with new audiences.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><cite><em><em>I do love giving new life into old books. Not only is it a sustainable art form, but they often come with their own pieces of history: inscriptions with names, dates, and little messages if they were gifts.<\/em><\/em><\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She endeavors to inspire others to explore Fore-Edge painting for themselves and discover the fun in transforming their favourite books into works of art, no matter their artistic ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Maisie Matilda is a UK-based professional artist known for specialising in Fore-Edge painting, a Medieval craft she has practiced full time since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84112,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-84107","d_artist","type-d_artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/d_artist\/84107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/d_artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/d_artist"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.21-draw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}