{"id":60731,"date":"2024-08-01T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/?p=60731"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:43:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:43:02","slug":"thf-galleries-photo-haiku-of-mel-ledgard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/thf-galleries-photo-haiku-of-mel-ledgard\/","title":{"rendered":"THF Galleries: Photo Haiku of Mel Ledgard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;61522&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mel Ledgard<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]The Haiku Foundation honors the work of contemporary masters of the dual art of haiga: visual image wedded to haiku. This month\u2019s featured artist is <strong>Mel Ledgard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mel lives in Yorkshire, UK. She has a BA degree in Silversmithing &amp; Jewellery and an MA in Writing, but latterly spent her working life as a graphic\/multimedia\/website designer in the education and media sectors. For a few years, producing the BBC Radio 2 Folk Music website serendipitously combined making a living with a lifelong involvement in folk music and dance. She discovered haiku during her Writing degree, its Zen sensibilities appealing to her metaphysical inclinations. During that time she experimented with animated \u2018hyperhaiku\u2019 and created a multimedia version of Sheffield Hallam University\u2019s student literary magazine, <em>WebSheaf<\/em>. She has had work published in <em>Sheffield Thursday<\/em> and <em>Blithe Spirit<\/em> (a sample of which is in the British Haiku Society\u2019s Teaching Kit) but has mostly lurked on the periphery of the haiku world. 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