HAND MADE BOOKS

There is nothing more satisfying than producing a hand made book and I have made several over the last few years, as well as customising an existing book or pamphlet by adding gesso to the pages before working on them, or gluing two together to give a stronger surface and then adding a new cover to the finished work.  Starting from scratch I usually make the book first, then work into it, but have also used existing artwork to make the book.

Sea Changes

I spent  a couple of weeks by the sea on the Costa del Sol in Spain later in the year. Sometimes the weather was sunny and the sea calm, at other times we had wild...

Fragments

Fragments The challenge with this little book was to use only small fragments of collage papers that I had left over from other projects and to produce something that felt relatively coherent even though every...

Being Here

This summer I took a course with Fibre Arts Takes Two - The Way of Wabi Sabi Collage with Donna Watson.  Wabi Sabi encompasses the idea that nothing is perfect or permanent and how to...

Memories from Japan

The pages are a mix of papers, different weights and include some thicker papers bought in Japan.  The idea was to include images from all my trips to that country and I have just enough...

Blue Rondo

I wanted to dye some papers and I also wanted to eco print in a turmeric bath, over dyeing with indigo.  The end result was this book, using papers, fabrics and various other bits and...

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