What an incredibly talent-filled place, with so much devotion to fine craft, exquisite paper and tenderness towards the Art of the Book! I am very very tired after two days of manning my stall. But I feel content on one level and am inspired to work even harder at my art. It's too late to even give a glimpse of anything else that I saw at the show, but I will do so soon. In the meantime, I'll show you some images of my stand on day 1 and day 2. I was pleased with my design of the stand having … [Read more...]
Book cradle and book press
My beautiful bookpress - a gift from my brother Des while I lived in Cape Town. It was originally painted turquoise but I had to leave it behind when I first came to the UK because it was too heavy and I did not know where we'd be living. My sister Trish kindly brought it to the UK when she came over a few years later. My son's friend Dylan stripped and repainted it as a thank you to us for giving him a home when he needed one. I found the table in Bridport. Rope of Words, the books I am … [Read more...]
The Princess and the Pea
I took part in the Oxford Scribes Stand at The Fine Press Book Fair in Oxford, which was beautifully set up and looked really great. Well done Diane and Hilary! I sold my T-book with tea haiku by Megan Kerr and the embossed alphabet concertina but I just showed The Princess and the Pea "book in a bed" that I made for my 4-year old granddaughter for Christmas last year. I rewrote the story with Princess Mousie and printed it onto fine cotton for the backs of the mattresses. One chapter per … [Read more...]
Screenprinted strips
We have a very, calligraphically speaking, exciting celebration next year in May. It is the Oxford Scribes 3oth anniversary. So there will be a big exhibition. We intend creating an installation - it may be a secret so I should not disclose what it is - but everyone has been asked to make ribbons from a colour selection of Canson Mi Tiente. I thought that by screenprinting I could do something with quite small lettering on four sheets, covering both sides - so I did. The diagonally … [Read more...]
Poetry Collaboration 1
Radley College and Oxford Scribes (OS) are having a collaboration where OS will write the student's poetry in calligraphy. These will be exhibited at Radley College in March 2013. We went to visit the college to meet some of the poets one lunch time. There is a seriously good permanent collection of work at the college that is jaw-dropping, inspiring and I must say, a bit intimidating. We will have to think hard to produce work that will enable us to hold our heads high! The poems were … [Read more...]