About Us

to sow: to plant a seed

to tarry: to wait, or linger longer than expected

 

I was illustrating a children's book for my beloved cousin.

And then we lost her.

My daily life was busy with young children, so finding time to stop to feel, to grieve, to remember was scarce. 

It took me nearly three years to illustrate in color again.

I slowly started to draw the dark night sky, the smooth stones, the velvet moss, and fragile flowers of the physical world, still here, steady in her presence, as magical as ever. 

And I let my grief and imagination walk hand in hand into a forest; where a group of gnomes asked me to bring little messages back for the children who always bring joy to the overwhelmed, all-at-once, mixed-up grown-ups.

Now my mission is to share this whimsy with the precious children in your life. I am so glad the gnomes brought you here!

 

With the fairies, 

Maddy Green

founder and illustrator of Sow & Tarry