Tuulikki Pietilå

For thirty summers, Tove Jansson and her partner, the graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilå, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the Gulf of Finland. Here, they lived, painted, and wrote, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island's austere charms. Notes from an Island offers both a memoir of and homage to this beloved island home....