Fundador: The Ibiza Cat

After sixty years, Fundador: The Ibiza Cat, written and illustrated by Gail Rutherford, and edited by Henry Dunsmore, has been released. 

In the early 1960s, Ibiza was an inexpensive and beautiful place where many artists and writers could afford to live while they worked.  

Rutherford explains: “We rented an old farmhouse, near a beach, and our two cats kept the house free of mice. 

“In this idylic place I created Fundador in those years, but though I found a German and an English publisher I never found a US one, full color printing was so expensive back then that it would take a trio to print the book.

“So Fundador was stored away, and became a time capsule, so here is Ibiza as it was in those wonderful years.”

Copies of the book are available locally in Charlottetown at Bookmark and at the Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works exhibition, on view at Confederation Centre Art Gallery.