074936 - FLYING HIGH IN THE SUNLIT SILENCE: The Aviation Art of Jack Berry

The Aviation Art of Jack Berry

Jack Berry is an autistic teenager who uses his artwork as a form of communication and release. His favourite hobbies are aircraft and racing cars and he regularly shares his love of these on social media through his artwork. Art is in the eye and mind of the artist, and Jack’s drawings and paintings show the world of aviation, and the odd racing car as he sees them, with a vibrancy and optimism that cannot always be conveyed through a photograph.Jack’s art has a lovely tranquil, radiant and fresh quality to it which is really uplifting and enchanting. Jack wanted to create and publish his own artwork book with his favourite aircraft, accompanied by a write up from his favourite pilots and aircrew. This delightful book has become a lovely link and formed a wonderful friendship bond between Jack and many aviators of the modern day, and those with a personal history in aviation stretching back over decades and generations. He formed an artistic bond in particular with John Henry Meller, who served as a wireless operator in Bomber Command during the Second World War. Created in a period in our history when people have been isolated by a pandemic which has divided and isolated, this book has reached out and linked households and airfields in union. Proof indeed that kindness finds its way across any obstacle.

The author's proceeds will be used to support SSAFA, the Armed Forces Charity, the International Bomber Command Centre and Lincolnshire's Lancaster Association.