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Accordion books
Accordion book with expressive calligraphy on white paper using oak twig and homemade iron gall ink. Additional marks made with watercolours. Board covers and supporting pages made from heavyweight brown paper painted with iron gall ink, watercolours and gouache. Measures 170mm high x 133mm wide x approx 20mm deep when folded. Fastens with cream cotton…
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Teachers of the Heart
At the end of last year I was lucky enough to be accepted for a place on the 2017 Defining Practice course at Newlyn School of Art. Hopefully recording aspects of my practice on this blog will play a useful part in developing my work over the coming months. Choosing five artists to write about from the many…
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Bookbinding class
I recently had a chance to attend a bookbinding class with Claire Gladstone at Green Hill Arts in Moretonhampstead. Claire turned out to be a very patient and generous tutor and under her guidance we each managed to produce three books during the course of the day. We began by making a simple stitched pamphlet…
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Oak
OAK At the back of the churchyard an oak has rooted beside a grave; each year the lichened slab is covered with galls. Searching among tussocks of wet grass I find celandines, primroses, violets, last year’s foxgloves springing again from the base of a plinth; Reginald William Hobhouse, Son of . . . Died Oct…
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Rust prints and ink lettering
Following on from my previous iron gall ink making post, here’s a quick update on what I did next. After removing the linen wrapping I used the rusty metal to make several prints. For the darker one on the left it was placed onto cartridge paper and a tea was trickled over it using a pipette.…
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Dawlish Churchyard Yew
The Common Yew growing beside the tower of St Gregory’s Church, Dawlish, has recently been added to the online gazetteer maintained by the Ancient Yew Group. The entry is divided into two sections: the first supplies info on the location while the second provides details of the tree itself. The girth of the tree at the narrowest…
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Making Iron Gall Ink
Raw material – a mix of crushed oak galls and twigs. Ingredients assembled: selection of rusty iron objects, crushed galls, old linen cloth from charity shop, old saucepans. Combined fabric dyeing and ink making in progress. Oak galls and rusty nails in jar filled with plain water. Linen cloth soaked in clean water then folded…
