haiga,march2009

World Haiku Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2009

Haiga March 2009

Special Haiga Exhibition

Introduction

The World Haiku Club is pleased to announce the start of WHC’s SPECIAL HAIGA EXHIBITION.

In this new series of exhibitions, which will be held from time to time, we wish to concentrate on three things:

(1) Traditional excellence,

(2) Free haiga and

(3) Innovative experiment and to keep high standards and quality in all of them.

We hold the first SPECIAL HAIGA EXHIBITION in the current issue of World Haiku Review and the featured artist is Colin Stewart Jones of Aberdeen, Scotland. Colin has done a series of very interesting and attractive haiga using English letters in bold designs and colours, representing different birds. Enjoy!

One Word Haiga

by Colin Stewart Jones

Colin Stewart Jones lives and writes in Aberdeen, Scotland.

He placed joint first in The 2009 San Francisco International Rengay Contest and has a book of haiku published by Cauliay, called A Seal snorts out the Moon.

Jones' most recent publications include Contemporary Haibun

Online, Haibun Today, Rusty Tea Kettle, Paper Wasp and haiigaonline.

His work has also been selected for The Red Moon Anthology 2008 and Contemporary Haibun Vol 10.

Colin says :

"i 'draw' my haiga in ms word building up layers of autoshapes

and i then take a screen shot to convert them to an image file."