This series of large circular paintings is a study in color processization. Using the premise of painting exclusively with primary colors - the traditional primaries of red, blue and yellow painted in a circular and ordered pattern of layers - striking differences, depths and a range of colors are created. Each ring is painted in one sitting, a single rotation of the circle without interruption. The circular shape of these paintings, a universal meditation on wholeness, timelessness and the cyclic nature of life continues a multi-year exploration of this subject.

Wonder Series is a collection of mesmerizing watercolors Sanders created to explore her longstanding fascination with the cosmos. Painted using a laborious layering process with gouache and watercolor on Arches and Japanese Shojo-shi paper, Sanders achieves a striking sense of depth. By forming an aura around miniscule dots of bare paper, even when working in a smaller scale, Sanders captures the mystery, movement, intelligence and wonder of the implicit order within the entirety of being. - Ochi Gallery

Wonder Series is a collection of mesmerizing watercolors Sanders created to explore her longstanding fascination with the cosmos. Painted using a laborious layering process with gouache and watercolor on Arches and Japanese Shojo-shi paper, Sanders achieves a striking sense of depth. By forming an aura around miniscule dots of bare paper, even when working in a smaller scale, Sanders captures the mystery, movement, intelligence and wonder of the implicit order within the entirety of being. - Ochi Gallery

[fulltitle]What Can Be Seen Beyond the Burden of Knowing[/fulltitle]    

2008 • 10 x 15 inches • Gouache • Shojo-Shi Paper 

2008 • 10 x 15 inches • Gouache • Shojo-Shi Paper 

[fulltitle] Denkbilder:               Thought-Images [/fulltitle] 

A book based on the ideas and writing of Walter Benjamin and the modern city. The images are culled from books of Paris at the turn-of-the-century.

2000 • Edition of 7 • 4 x 4 inches • 40 pages • Pen and Ink • Xerox transfer • Letterpress printing • Accordion binding • Zerkall Biblio paper • Italian book cloth

[fulltitle]Last Night We Were Awoke[/fulltitle]

A recreation of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s famed westward expedition. Each page unites a chart of the stars and planets exactly as they appeared to the explorers on a particular night with an excerpt from their writings. On the reverse side are watercolor paintings imagining what the explorers saw on their journey.

The title of the book comes from Clark’s description of the northern lights upon viewing them for the first time. November 6, 1804, ...light containing floating columns approach each other & retreat leaving the lighter space. 

2003 • Edition of 200 • 10 x 10 inches • 16 pages
Letterpress printed • Accordion binding • Somerset paper • Japanese book cloth 

[fulltitle]I WAS THERE:           Rumor Fable Exploit[/fulltitle]

An anthology artist book that takes the traditional art form of the hand printed book to a contemporary setting, bringing together emerging and established writers and artists.

Contributors include Naomi Shihab Nye, Rick Ridgeway, Anne Lamott, Mark Salzman, Richard Wilbur, Aracelís Girmay and a letter of ‘truth’ by Albert Einstein. 

"I WAS THERE, Brittany Sanders’ anthology jewelbox of an artist’s book is a veritable wondercabinet, brimming over with daft marvels and somber delights – stories, drawings, rumors, fables, photos, dreamscapes – all of them exquisitely fashioned and sumptuously presented." -Lawrence Weschler, author and New Yorker contributor

2001 • Edition of 250 • 8 x 10 inches • 250 Pages
Original artwork • Watercolor • Letterpress printing • Western case binding • Hand sewn and bound • Slip-cover case • Somerset, Chartham and Zerkall paper • Italian book cloth • foil stamping on cover

[fulltitle] Remember when I first saw you your smile surrounded me, If I can’t be with you at least you will know me [/fulltitle] 

A memorial book project commissioned by the George Gund Family, in memory of their son Greg Gund. The book combines commissioned photographs, interviews, and family photographs. The challenge of telling a life’s story in a two-dimensional format – that which can be seen through image and text, and the parallel story that is told in the spaces between.

2007 • Private commission • Edition of 200 • 9 x 12 inches • 200 pages Offset lithography • Western case binding • Clamshell box • Japanese book cloth • Foil stamping on case and cover

A children’s book about a lonely parrot who dreams of flying with the wild Los Angeles parrots.

2000 • Edition of 27 • 9 x 9 inches • Watercolor • Pen and ink • Collage Digital offset • Italian book cloth 

Yeats’ poem “Lapis Lazuli” speaks of the horrors of war and the cyclical nature of history. For the narrator, what makes life endurable is the redemption and transcendence that is found through art. 

2004 • Unique book • Private commission • 10 x 14 inches • Gouache • Watercolor • Shojo-shi paper and Japanese book cloth • Accordion binding