With One Brush Author:Jan Dean Winner, Best First Book, IP Picks 2007. With One Brush showcases Dean s previously published and awarded work. She uses visual art as a departure point for creative exploration of experience, memory, sensation, and imagination. Her passion for art and her innate, vibrant sense of colour and texture bursts forth from the page in visu... more »ally sumptuous passages. The act of painting takes on metaphorical significance as Dean navigates themes of creation and documentation of life through art. What emerges is a sensuously layered and intriguing meditation on the past that offers a sense of connectedness and hope for the future.« less