Friday, 28 March 2014

The Guardian of the Print Shed

The guardian of the Print Shed . . .
The theme for Februarys meeting of Stroud Artists' Books was Water, which I had to miss as I had a previous commitment to run a beginners-bookbinding workshop. However, with such a very wet February how could I forget Water as a theme . . . and now it's had time to filter through my subconscious I've started to make some mono-prints to use as a basis for my book.

Using cool tones and random (but I hope) watery shapes,
and torn paper templates to create organic forms
I'm building a collection of pages
in which to place text.
The job of a guardian is a tiring thing.

New Pamphlet Books

The printing is finished, now it’s time to fold and stitch. We live in an age of instant news, instant messages, instant everything. As the ...