Tag: artists’ books

  • Printing and dyeing with walnuts

    Printing and dyeing with walnuts

    Over the summer months I’ve been busy with a number of plant dyeing projects which I hope to get around to recording now that autumn is here. I began harvesting material back in July by collecting windfall walnuts in a local park – the crop was fairly sparse but by making a few repeat visits…

  • Landscape to Studio

    Landscape to Studio

    Towards the end of last year I attended a series of four workshops run by Anita Reynolds. The aim of the workshops was to look at ways of creating ‘finished pieces’ in the studio over a period of weeks without losing the spontaneity and enthusiasm of notes and sketches originally made on site. On the first day of…

  • Accordion books

    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…

  • Teachers of the Heart

    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…