tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13882386210150105432024-03-14T03:03:35.688+00:00Mavina Baker Printmaker @ Teacup PressArtist PrintmakerMavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-66323935279291639902024-02-04T17:38:00.007+00:002024-02-04T17:40:08.374+00:00Making Memory Books by Hand <p><b>A project for making a concertina book with pockets.</b></p><p>9.30am - 1pm Wednesday 6th March, at No.4 West Mersea, Colchester CO5 8HT</p><p>Learn how to construct a unique, concertina fold (with pockets) handmade book that can be used as a ‘memory book’. This would make an ideal personalised Mother’s Day gift and is perfect as a commemorative gift. </p><p>Concertina books are a favourite of mine. They are perfect to stand up and be displayed on a shelf or a table as well as be held in the hand. This workshop is for a hand-made concertina book with pockets.</p><p>My particular interest is in simple book forms, concertina (also known as Leporello & accordion fold) Japanese stab binding and pamphlets. For the majority of my books, I use the simplest of tools; a rule, a bone folder, cutting knife, glue, needles & thread, scrap paper and a hole punch. As a printmaker I use ink (of course) and also paint and pens, with stencils and collage for image creating and mark-making.</p><p>When any of us make a handmade book, we are following an ancient tradition. All the earliest books showed the mark of the hand at every stage, whether preparing materials (which may be as diverse as leaves and animal skins, or bark and silks) writing with reeds or brushes, letterpress, using handmade inks and making colour from plants and minerals. </p><p>However, this was all very time consuming and we had to wait for the printing press and moveable type to come along before the democratisation of the book, Even so, the hand-made element reminded for many centuries after that.</p><p>Examples of concertina, pocket fold books collated to show students in my workshop, Making Memory Books by Hand, at No.4 West Mersea on 6th March (only four and a bit weeks away!) Spaces have booked up quickly, only two places left.</p><p><br /></p><p>For further info contact: <a href="mailto:info@merseaartistsbooks.co.uk">info@merseaartistsbooks.co.uk</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBdI9K1Iz86iLMtH0u9tL2RJsEm8PTTfH4Xpm_tqkQvNM-xpL8nO1rTitXtvHoaCcoq-ghhiNh3aETd4MolJIlQW_gSX5-Zh1ASOsvhFcR47lUhIm_fNlWQV2aWvCrfgcP7xXvJ1D3u82SMXBXKg9s2BwIWqwupQh3-zZdNPeFVZ53gK0jiTCmriq70HDq/s2225/IMG_1538.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2225" data-original-width="2225" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBdI9K1Iz86iLMtH0u9tL2RJsEm8PTTfH4Xpm_tqkQvNM-xpL8nO1rTitXtvHoaCcoq-ghhiNh3aETd4MolJIlQW_gSX5-Zh1ASOsvhFcR47lUhIm_fNlWQV2aWvCrfgcP7xXvJ1D3u82SMXBXKg9s2BwIWqwupQh3-zZdNPeFVZ53gK0jiTCmriq70HDq/s320/IMG_1538.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMMK33FB1rJg8FKrO6FtqPKJ_y-_b7CGvHKcZz_odl9JHPKXtWCWPJzWuHJY7U-BmvwxR2c5xikjkUgxT7oYJcb2elQLyHPnwSUY4z0Dbet8LnpWNEGflMzNdPYxvRzkAvpWjYYSDqOJGHcRtNRH6eUc8JS8KNXv5En_SS7_azNXZfqnQWtUElQWVuAEMX/s3554/IMG_1539.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbHdPw7Ts7b95OVv_Ck2SBNQBF2xHNkfhmaHwh7xILzO6SKpBs1PE5fS-FKkQQddBdf5t9H4kYlixNNrGlfD9dVBibErhPnHr4_ZTAfmTsNU8KisxaB3i3ngUDqMgY96YH90yUUJsQiPnBHxdJdnNqfN2-25Z588irJWivQ_LWwvPqo904UEAVCz8i/s3633/99952222-7E2B-458F-9097-5997599163DE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3633" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbHdPw7Ts7b95OVv_Ck2SBNQBF2xHNkfhmaHwh7xILzO6SKpBs1PE5fS-FKkQQddBdf5t9H4kYlixNNrGlfD9dVBibErhPnHr4_ZTAfmTsNU8KisxaB3i3ngUDqMgY96YH90yUUJsQiPnBHxdJdnNqfN2-25Z588irJWivQ_LWwvPqo904UEAVCz8i/s320/99952222-7E2B-458F-9097-5997599163DE.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Come and cut and fold paper to make a unique heart shaped book, that you can fill with love, friendship and kindness, for that special someone in your life; your partner, a best friend, a new grandchild.</span></p><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">We will make a heart shape book in this workshop, filled with paper, cut to shape. There is a lot of cutting of the paper to shape, but as with all binding, satisfying to make.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">The book will be sewn, lined and finished in red of course. The hard part will be deciding if you will keep it for yourself or give it away!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">In this season of chocolates and red hearts, I wondered how and when did the heart become associated with romance in Western culture? The early Egyptians believed the heart was the seat of the soul, the Greeks, the seat of both reason and emotion.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">By the Medieval era heart-shaped books were composed of hand written love poetry, often illuminated, folios stitched together, and when the book is opened it blossoms, so to speak, into a heart. The oldest surviving example is Danish, made in the 1500’s. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Includes all materials and use of tools. </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">To book </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/516982076307">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/516982076307</a></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.079999923706055px;">Google medieval heart books to see more.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsfn8FbWxlvzwW9aRC-e4-5Poy2jjVjgVf67ylpt7qzMu5uBF7hqgWq-WYrPuhaP6G6NUyaCs6CizEfp1bn5DltwoCIL5mQ_gu6_0MJC6lTWc11R28JNHvYDWfNM0Zvw47RJ0lwVOAWjWhsqEIWjmGOQScj_prAhOmELLQAgU04Ra9Pkph8NqlsPW/s785/40C2F84F-B2C8-40F1-A00D-EE9EE0696C3C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="759" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsfn8FbWxlvzwW9aRC-e4-5Poy2jjVjgVf67ylpt7qzMu5uBF7hqgWq-WYrPuhaP6G6NUyaCs6CizEfp1bn5DltwoCIL5mQ_gu6_0MJC6lTWc11R28JNHvYDWfNM0Zvw47RJ0lwVOAWjWhsqEIWjmGOQScj_prAhOmELLQAgU04Ra9Pkph8NqlsPW/s320/40C2F84F-B2C8-40F1-A00D-EE9EE0696C3C.jpeg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuwfqRbe02_36MOshD2CpZwhnkal7p6d_r3wGz6JqJbQyTwxrwAehLxg3wz_9xJVlS2YRiPJ8teGhnfnDlEwZJSsYIlYHVJj-7X7aOQ5yf0lpE58K9dFggq72Bdi6JQCgFyfAXuFtUncbAJIdecLyOMmhhTLRrSRp_NpUsEmbyCuMFB72DBeoD7k5Y/s840/E7860BCA-C39B-4613-961E-18AD26DF6E50.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="828" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuwfqRbe02_36MOshD2CpZwhnkal7p6d_r3wGz6JqJbQyTwxrwAehLxg3wz_9xJVlS2YRiPJ8teGhnfnDlEwZJSsYIlYHVJj-7X7aOQ5yf0lpE58K9dFggq72Bdi6JQCgFyfAXuFtUncbAJIdecLyOMmhhTLRrSRp_NpUsEmbyCuMFB72DBeoD7k5Y/s320/E7860BCA-C39B-4613-961E-18AD26DF6E50.jpeg" width="315" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.079999923706055px;"><br /></span><p></p>Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0Colchester, UK51.895927 0.8918740000000000623.585693163821155 -34.264376 80.206160836178839 36.048124tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-24617419396084099812019-09-19T14:42:00.000+01:002019-09-19T14:42:47.055+01:00The Magic of Mersea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
As an artist who often makes prints that are inspired by nature Mersea Island is a gift, whether walking along the sea-wall watching birds and water running over the mud. . .</div>
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or seeing boats and the paraphernalia that comes through having boats on the shore, there is much to be motivated by.</div>
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I needed to make some prints larger than my usual format, which I initially found a bit of a challenge.</div>
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Translating sketchbook and photo ideas into prints usually, for me, involves drawing but in this instance I had to 'go big' and simplify, and the drawn line didn't really lend itself to where I was trying to go. . . it took me a morning messing around before I had the 'bright-idea' of using collage (doh)</div>
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I don't know why I don't use collage more often, one can't be 'precious' and it's satisfyingly direct.</div>
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I couldn't quite get the boat cradle images out of my minds eye, something so prosaic and usually quite insignificant, prompting me to spend some (overdue) time playing around with viscosity printmaking and making offset images.</div>
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It's amazing where a walk along the foreshore can take you!</div>
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Hanging the sky up to dry.</div>
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In both these pebbly beach prints I have used viscosity printing and of course I've promised myself lots of time in the studio to 'mess about' with this method . . . </div>
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mustn't leave it too long!</div>
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Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-90008493547268419082019-09-18T17:16:00.004+01:002019-09-18T17:16:53.860+01:00Oxford Artweeks, May 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
April and there's barely a bud on the wisteria which holds up the pergola over the path to the studio, perfect printmaking days in the studio in the run-up to my first Oxford Artweeks.</div>
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I love a bit of lino. . . or ply. . . or mdf and happily use any or all to make prints from.</div>
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For Oxford Artweeks I concentrated on making books. . . these images from Setting Off are a mix of lino and wood which gives the different textures. </div>
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Setting Off results from sketches made of stands of trees on long winter walks along the Wiltshire stretch of the Ridgeway, possibly Britain's oldest road. Metaphors of the woods are written deep in our language, going back into our collective folk traditions, often as places of mystery, menace and threat.</div>
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. . . Don't go down to the woods alone.</div>
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Hinterland, inspired by walks along the sea-wall in Mersea, observing the constant shifts in mood and light over the strood, and watching birds in flight.</div>
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I was so pleased to have a reason to use some hand-marbled paper that I have ferreted away in a drawer. The person who gave it to me told me it was made in the 1930's, I can believe that, as it's quite brittle but it does glue and wrap very happily.</div>
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Mapping the Edges, inspired by the sound of Red Kites calling over our garden, quite a heart-rending, mournful sound, which summed up ideas of being alone and the singularity of the human experience.</div>
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Meresig grew out of the excitement of spotting curlews while walking along the Essex coast. Curlews are in crisis and we don't have as many in the UK as we once did, I felt very lucky to see them. </div>
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It's magical hearing the curlews call late of an evening in Mersea, particularly on a still evening with the sun dipping low on the horizon.</div>
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I opened over two weekends plus a day in the week, welcoming many curious and thought-provoking visitors. I don't think I've held an open studio quite like it, topics of conversation ranged far and wide, from process and concept, to literature and learning, to poetry and politics. </div>
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<br />Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-71757922370979651992019-02-21T19:22:00.000+00:002019-06-17T17:29:43.546+01:00Artists, Poets, Writers, Academics, Teachers, Translators, and Photographers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I first became involved with '<a href="http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/al-mutanabbi-street/" target="_blank">An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street</a>' in the summer of 2011 when I responded to the call put out by poet, bookseller and founder of <i>The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here</i> Coalition, Beau Beausoleil, by making <a href="https://teacuppress.blogspot.com/2014/08/2nd-edition-falling-gently-concertina.html" target="_blank">Falling Gently</a>. This was for artists to complete three books over the course of a year that reflected both the strength and fragility of books, but also to show the endurance of the ideas within them. Beau asked for work that reflected the targeted attack on this street of booksellers as well as the ultimate futility of those who try to erase thought.</div>
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The latest call, as a part of the <i>Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here</i> project, is a photography project, Shadow & Light, bearing witness to targeted academics in Iraq who have been ruthlessly murdered.<br />
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This time, the intention is to take from historical invisibility, to commemorate the hundreds of academics (lecturers, professors, teachers) that were assassinated in Iraq during the US-led invasion and occupation, during the years 2003-2012. During this period, over 300 teachers, both Sunni and Shia, were targeted by various groups with no one group taking responsibility. The assassinations occurred on university campuses, at the homes of teachers, and sometimes while they were driving.<br />
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Did you have a teacher who inspired you? Was there a lecturer who fired your imagination? Are you indeed, a teacher? Would you contribute to this project?<br />
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This was an attempt to shut down academic freedom and free speech, things we take for granted but that we know all too well must be preserved and supported. If you are an artist, a poets, a writer, an academic, a teacher, a translator, or a photographer you are welcome to take part.<br />
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My image for Shadow and Light. Taken in the field at the front of my house very early on a still September morning, when I watched the sun come up, while the mist in the valley and vapour trials in the sky slowly shift and fade, transient and temporary as dreams.<br />
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No.245 Kathum Mashhout: Lecturer in edaphology at the College of Agriculture, Basra University. Killed in Basra in December 2006 [exact date unknown]. [Source: CEOSI Iraqi university sources, 12 December 2006]</div>
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Edaphology: relating to the soil. Any property of the soil, physical or chemical, that influences the plants growing in that soil. How can someone lecturing on the effect of soils on the growth of plants be seen as an enemy, it beggars belief. These killings are a shameful and random, violent attempt to shut down academic freedom, free speech and the sharing of knowledge.<br />
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<i>Standing in silence and looking out at the sun rising on a green washed autumn morning, as mist settles and shifts, I’m looking for an echo, an idea of a man I will never meet . . . did he ever stand, I wonder, alone to watch the sun rise over dew soaked fields, watching mist in the valley and vapour trails in the sky; shifting, fluid . . . transient and temporary as dreams. </i><br />
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<i>Unlike the soil underneath my feet. The rich loam on which I stand, home to a myriad life forms, land that has been husbanded for generations (was he a husband? . . a father? . . did he love, and was he loved in return?) Would he have recognised anything of his Fertile Crescent, the birthplace of agriculture, in these scratchy, stubble grazed fields of a soft, still, northern hemisphere morning?</i><br />
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<i>I study the view again and watch the light change to a brighter hue as the day gathers strength. It’s beautiful to watch. It is calm and so very still. Not quite alone, I am here carrying with me the ghost of a man I’ve never seen, into a wide open, and deserted field to find some trace resonant with another, so we can watch the light change together. </i><br />
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<i>Hearing them first, I become aware of a horde of crows tearing out from the trees, racing to harry a red kite. Falling into air. Plunging at her head with bitter black cries, their dark shapes wheeling over the land. I watch discomfited at their shadows running. Disconnected. Spinning, coursed on like a hare.</i><br />
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<i>Dropping my phone. Stooping to touch the soil; and I see for one flickering instant as if through the cataracts of a ghosts clouded eye. </i></div>
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If you're interested in finding out more, below is part of the text from an email Beau sent, August 2018, with links.<br />
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<i>SHADOW AND LIGHT</i><br />
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<i>Dear friends,</i><br />
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<i>I am writing to you specifically as fellow artists, writers, poets, activists, image-makers, printers, teachers/academics, translators, and amateur and professional photographers. The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here project has added a fourth visual call and response (in addition to the broadside/letter press response, the artists’ book response (including our small bookmark project), and the printmaking response).</i><br />
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<i>This time, the intention is to take from historical invisibility, to memorialize and to honour the hundreds of academics (lecturers, professors, teachers) that were assassinated in Iraq during the US-led invasion and occupation, during the years 2003-2012. During this period, over 300 teachers were targeted by various groups with no one group taking responsibility. The assassinations occurred on university campuses, at the homes of teachers, and sometimes while they were driving. We cannot calculate the loss to the families of these victims, as well as the loss to the entire intellectual community of Iraq.</i><br />
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<i>The targeted assassinations of hundreds of Iraqi academics was an attempt to erase and intimidate those who teach, write, do research, and work to carry knowledge and collective and personal memories forward. Free speech and the free exchange of ideas is as important in a classroom as it is on al-Mutanabbi Street.</i><br />
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<i>I’ve come to the conclusion that since we are honoring targeted academics, we don’t necessarily need only professional photographers; rather, we need someone who understands the wider implications of these kinds of targeted assassinations. Perhaps the most daunting thing for a non-professional photographer would be following the material guidelines to prepare the photo for the project. If you understand this project and if you would consider joining, then choose the name of an academic and the details of their assassination as a reference point. The photograph we ask for should be a landscape image, either urban or in nature; it can be constructed or found. It could be an empty room or an open field, an urban parking lot or a grove of trees. You could simply take a picture of the first resonant empty space that you encounter. Some measure of understanding needs to be traversed and the only life it should hold is the remnant of the person that the photographer has chosen to represent. A key element here, is that the image is empty of people. The photograph itself buys us time with the viewer. The photograph should hold the body in place. Your image should hold this person in a kind of emptiness that is palpable, an emptiness that has enough small details in it for the viewer to slowly consider, and then, their vision should drift down to the name you have chosen and then back up again to the image. The photograph has to be strong but it also has to give way to the person that somehow inspired the image. The photo should be a way to take the viewer to the name and the life that held it. You will know the balance when you see it.</i><br />
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<i>In Solidarity,</i><br />
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<i>Beau Beausoleil - Founder - Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here - overlandbooks@earthlink.net</i><br />
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<i>Note: Choose a name from the following link below with the accompanying number. Let me know who you have chosen. Create your image after you have picked a name from the list of assassinated academics, rather than using a photograph you may have already taken.</i><br />
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<i>SHADOW AND LIGHT GUIDELINES:</i><br />
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<i>1) 6 copies of one or two images.</i><br />
<i>2) Use any kind of paper you want.</i><br />
<i>3) Photo size: 8 x 10 or 8.5 x 11 or 11 x 14.</i><br />
<i>4) Any photographic process: colour inkjet printing, black and white, analog darkroom printing, mail order printing processes.</i><br />
<i>5) Please include the usual exhibit details about your photographs: title of your print, your name, country, subject’s name, print technique.</i><br />
<i>6) Sign and date on the back of the photograph</i><br />
<i>7) Please include an artist’s statement of up to 400 words. It’s important to remember that this is a project of art in the service of ideas rather than a work for an art exhibition. Within your statement let us know your “point of entry” for what you are trying to get at or reflect upon with your photograph.</i><br />
<i>8) You have six months to complete this project, from the date you notify me that you are interested in participating with this project.</i><br />
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<i>Artists’ Book Project (An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street – Click into a gallery and then onto any book image to see more views of the book and read the artist’s statement.</i><br />
<i><a href="http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/al-mutanabbi-street/">http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/al-mutanabbi-street/</a></i><br />
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<i>Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides – <a href="https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.library.fau.edu%2Fdepts%2Fspc%2Fjaffecenter%2Fcollection%2Fal-mutanabbi%2Findex.php&h=AT1ntrsFVh_UZQ3kygR-ZOczWJ0HrfjLObuhU4zNSQSNu6sp6qsIzJTezIcpeRz2m6tYI9OHKt803VSSA8EMyK067SX4cHBs6iNzngivYa0qY8CycmCS-60HwbqnAEgVCW1VqY-N6PpMB4klw2v4HDB3Rxxb4WZtcGQdAJ3KJsrhfSxRe5GbYkxjDe7QhMdPBWWA4YJXVItZPMqaFTWfA9hJoozDxpg7jhI_WhOy2cUhQkFnipYc9MFLLX7telwWyLnOU0OcPUaMQnCpMXXStDW4vSE_a42eMfFjuqq43zLoNINwYqsoJhy_IFwrtIgfpbuCKBb2QAkxtOC5luNojrpWoKYu">http://www.library.fau.edu/…/collect…/al-mutanabbi/index.php</a></i><br />
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<br />Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-43654142565289358622019-02-04T16:29:00.001+00:002019-02-04T16:29:26.111+00:00Oxford Artweeks 2019The 2019 Oxfordshire Artweeks festival guide is <a href="https://www.artweeks.org/sites/default/files/news/aw_spreads2019_finalccover.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>!<br />
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Not long now before you can come and visit amazing art in hundreds of wonderful places. There are village trails to follow, city streets to explore and galleries and gardens across the county of Oxfordshire where you will find something inspiring and fresh. <br />
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Choosing from hundreds of different artists, visit their homes and studios to see work which will vary from the traditional to the contemporary, with printmaking and painting, from furniture to fashion, showing silverware, sculpture, mosaics and more, there's lots to go and see and it's free!<br />
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Oxford City Sat 4th May - Sun 12th May<br />
South Oxfordshire Sat11th May - Sun 12th May<br />
North Oxfordshire Sat18th May - Sun 27th May<br />
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And some of us make books . . . these images are from work made in Shetland, inspired by the local birds while staying at the Bressay lighthouse.<br />
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I took part in a workshop at <a href="http://www.rableydrawingcentre.com/art-courses-calendar.htm" target="_blank">Rabley Drawing Centre</a> some years back where I made a series of photographs of collected stones that at the time I didn't use and so, the stones in question joined my Stony Stash.</div>
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Why do we pick up pebbles on a walk or at the beach? . . .</div>
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For generations and across cultures stones have been used as markers; to indicate paths and trails, and to indicate a visit when placing a small stone on a grave to show respect and recall the past.</div>
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Stony Stories, is about remembering, and retaining a connectedness to a shared past, and so, prompted by pebbles that I have picked up on my travels over the years which I've kept like lucky charms and, by the stones that my children have picked up and given to me, I created a book about the memories that simple stones can evoke.</div>
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Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-40309047032162290302019-01-07T18:20:00.000+00:002019-01-07T18:20:09.236+00:00One of a kind - Wedding Guest signature book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I love making a unique wedding guest book. It's always one-of-a-kind as no two couples are alike, and I enjoy the insight it gives me to the couple, particularly when they chose the text to run along the bottom of each page.</div>
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Transferring the design and cutting the block for the end papers.</div>
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I still need to hang drying racks in the studio . . . consequently my bookshelves are regularly commandeered for drying purposes!<br />
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Endpapers sewn into the book<br />
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In this instance the text running along the bottom of each page is September, by Earth Wind and Fire.</div>
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I remember when it was released in 1978 (hazy memories of discos and platform shoes) suffice it to say the couple that chose these lyrics wouldn't be even a gleam in their daddy's eye for at least another ten years!</div>
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Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-84427821119815142192018-05-29T13:43:00.001+01:002018-05-29T13:43:27.240+01:00Books, books and more booksBooks, books and more books, that was <a href="https://www.turnthepage.org.uk/" target="_blank">Turn The Page</a> 2018 . . . such variety!<br />
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It was a busy couple of days, full of lively chat (some glorious Norfolk accents!) and I met some delightful people from my side of the table.<br />
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The work you can see from my view-point is that of <a href="http://www.thurle.com/" target="_blank">Thule Wright</a> who makes enchanting, delicate paper reconstructions.<br />
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However, you cannot see my favourite work - Lost Between Shores, by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AnnetteKreiserArt/" target="_blank">Annette Kreiser</a> beautifully printed and suggesting both fragility and sentiment.<br />
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Looking up from my table prompts me to ponder the mix of old and new.<br />
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I see the church of St Peter Mancroft through the enormous glass structure that is the Forum. Building work on the church began about 1430, not long before the first use of moveable type in Europe and the first great popularisation of books.<br />
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The Forum, built as a millennium project and finished in 2001 is home to the Norfolk & Norwich Millennium library . . . today it's filled with an enormous variety of artists books.<br />
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This is a casual connection, serendipitous, but a lovely connection nonetheless. It makes me think about the links through time and space to people and places and ideas . . .<br />
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It’s magical hearing the curlews call late of an evening in Mersea, this atmospheric song is surely one of the most evocative sounds of the British countryside, but curlews are in crisis. On mainland Britain between 1995 and 2016 the number of breeding curlews plummeted by a whopping 48%!</div>
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Memories. We all have favourite places, it could be some far-flung location, the coast or perhaps, your own back garden. This is a contemplation on a time and place, and the memories that can be held for us in particular locations.</div>
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Sometimes it’s a good idea to try something new, to try a different approach. This isn’t necessarily an easy thing to do when one works alone, sometimes it’s difficult to challenge myself especially when I’m deeply embedded in a comfy rut . . . so, some outside input was required! </div>
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With this in mind I signed up for a booklove e-course at <a href="https://www.rachelhazell.com/booklove-e-course/" target="_blank">rachelhazell.com</a> </div>
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Because of prior commitments I knew at the time I wouldn’t be able to keep to the class schedule, but that was no reason not to take part as everything is online for a few months and I could keep going at my own pace. I’m so glad that I did.</div>
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Creating mini flutter books is a fun thing to do and it’s a great form of <i>thinking play</i> . . . it’s a refreshing change to let my hand and eye do the thinking rather than my usual, more convoluted, planning in one of my many sketchbooks (of course some are more successful than others, but isn’t that often the case?) </div>
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I had it in mind to use a drum-leaf binding because of the small size of the sheets that I'd marbled. I thought that this would reveal the unique nature of each page, and in turn suggest the changing nature of the salt marsh and the tumbling display of a marsh harrier.<br />
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However, the book felt too small, too enclosed . . . I wanted a feeling of empty space and expansiveness. </div>
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My desire to create a book reflecting the mutability of a watery landscape (which is always subject to change) prompted me to think again.</div>
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Handwriting, by its nature variable, would add an element of flux that print wouldn't and hand-printing stencils vary each time they are printed, so would further this effect, but subtly.</div>
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The format of this book is slightly larger and concertina bound. </div>
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Alongside the negative space on the page, the effect of opening out a concertina bound book also suggests a sense of space, and I liked the effect. Although if I'm honest, this may not be the final incarnation of Hinterland . . . I feel something more is required, but as of yet I don't know what. </div>
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Altering books is a very old method of 'recycling'.<br />
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Long before the printed book, monks recycled old parchment manuscripts by scraping off the ink and adding fresh text and illustration. When I recently visited <a href="https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/upcoming-events/2017/dec/designing-english" target="_blank">Designing English</a> I noticed quite a few examples of words, illustrations and annotations added (at a later date) to the margins.<br />
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As they say, there is nothing new etc. etc.<br />
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You could say that this exhibition, organised by the group Sparksartists, is therefore following in a very fine tradition!<br />
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These are just a few of my favourites . . . there is so much more to see!<br />
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Barbara Pearman: From a Cornish Window<br />
Made while artist-in-residence at Cape Cornwall.<br />
<a href="http://barbarapearmanart.co.uk/">barbarapearmanart.co.uk</a><br />
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Dorothea Reid: Full Fathom Five</div>
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Original book, Shakespeare Survey 1 ed A Nicoll 1948</div>
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Jean Crow-Stewart: Deadwood<br />
Original book, Simple Pruning by N Catchpole RHS 1948<br />
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Heather Hunter: Summer<br />
Original book, Pictures of Britain Series: English Garden Flowers by George M Taylor 1946<br />
<a href="http://hunterbooks.co.uk/">hunterbooks.co.uk</a><br />
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Barbara Pearman: Water life of Britain<br />
Original book, Readers Digest water life of Britain<br />
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Kate Crossley: Nil Admirari - Let nothing astonish you<br />
Original books, Bolingwood and his times, volume 1 & 2 by S Sichel<br />
<a href="http://katecrossley.com/">katecrossley.com</a><br />
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Nancy Campbell: Itoqqippoq<br />
Itoqqippoq means 'washing line' in Greenlandic. The narrative of this book is created from a series of photographs of frozen washing, observed in west Greenland. In the Artic, laundry is left out to freeze-dry all winter long, but these sheets were dancing in the wind - a sign of spring.<br />
<a href="http://nancycampbell.co.uk/">nancycampbell.co.uk</a><br />
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Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-15559176863188959822018-01-17T20:08:00.002+00:002018-01-18T11:21:10.037+00:00Handwritten Manuscripts (the first thousand years of written English)Before the printing of books (in the west) sometime about 1473/4, every book was handwritten . . . with a quill pen, crikey, fountain pens not to be invented until the 19th century . . . and, no popping down the shop for some ink!<br />
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For almost a thousand years books were written in Latin, a language widely understood throughout Europe. Writing in English was much less important and much less widely read. However, as English grew in prestige it was used more often and there are some fabulous examples in <a href="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/upcoming-events/2017/dec/designing-english" target="_blank">Designing English</a> on until the 22 April in the Weston Library, Oxford.<br />
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It is worth seeing, not just for the medieval manuscripts in the main exhibition, but also to see the display of current, recently created artists' books inspired by those manuscripts.<br />
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The most 'ordinary' of books this, a medical book of the late 1400's. Remedies and charms scribbled on the flyleaves in scruffy and wonky handwriting. But these are magic words, with the power to heal. It includes a spell, with the instruction to write <i>+loy +eloy +zedeloy</i> onto a loaf, butter or an apple as a cure for toothache!<br />
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Composed 990-995; copied second half of the 1000's at Worcester Cathedral. I think the shape of this writing is adorable . . . the lines are widely spaced for ease of sight-reading, and large coloured letters mark new sermons.<br />
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Sheets stitched together<br />
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A herbal, copied sometime mid 1000's, the scribe having left spaces for someone to illustrate at a later date. Who knows what may have happened so that it did not get done . . .<br />
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Stories are painted inside these initials in this English guide to hunting, more entertaining than informative.<br />
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A manual for swan upping copied between 1516 and 1539, with beautiful abstracted forms symbolising the brands used on the beaks of swans.<br />
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A book which folds into a tiny square, about 55mm wide, perfect for folding up and carrying about to consult. Pictures show when it's lucky or deadly to do risky things like getting married, or letting blood.<br />
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Verse composed in the late 300's or early 400's and translated between 1439 and 1443 and designed as a gorgeous gift for a duke. The scribe uses multiple coloured inks to highlight fiddly rhymes and different sounds, resulting in wonderful patterns and shapes on the page.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2017/dec-13" target="_blank">Redesigning the medieval book</a> - artists' books inspired by the manuscripts on show.<br />
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When leaving the main exhibition rooms of Designing English, turn to the left and head for the vitrine in the main entrance hall to see a selection of books made as a compliment to that exhibition.<br />
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Two of my favourites . . .<br />
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A guide to mouse hunting, Lizzie Waterfield, with marvellous <i>mouse</i> covers!<br />
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Invisible, Angela Callanan, captures the eccentricity and peculiarity of medieval magic charms.</div>
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Weston Library information 01865 277094Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-1859410955721930842017-09-19T14:17:00.003+01:002017-09-19T14:17:42.718+01:00Floating Ink . . . suminagashi paper marblingStill in progress, but nearly finished . . . I've been paper marbling, using suminagashi (Japanese marbling) a technique I first practiced in a <a href="http://mavinabaker.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/print-and-bind-with-emily-martin.html" target="_blank">Print and Bind workshop</a> with Emily Martin.<br />
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It is possible to achieve very subtle marks with this technique, and I want to use it as a background for a piece of work inspired by walking the sea-wall in Mersea, which must be completed this week as I'm taking part in <a href="http://www.colchesteropenstudios.org/" target="_blank">Colchester open studios</a> with Neti Love, clever letterpress printmaker (and my lovely sister-in-law).<br />
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Colchester Open Studios, Saturday 30th September & Sunday 1st October, 11am - 5pm<br />
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Suminagashi is a simple process . . . using just water, ink and a surfactant,<br />
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alternately float the ink and surfactant onto the surface of the water,<br />
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It was edifying to work with him on this project, what a charming and considerate man he is!</div>
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As a surprise for the bride and groom, Rebecca's delightful friend Sophie arranged this book project with me. </div>
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How lovely for me to work with two such kind and thoughtful people!</div>
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These are luxury, handmade wedding guest books made specifically for each couple, so that all their guests can sign and comment to commemorate their wedding day.</div>
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/209126554" target="_blank">BABE showreel 2017</a><br />
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Photographing my most recent piece in the studio</div>
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This is based on the haunting sounds of curlews over the salt marshes in Mersea. Listened to from under the duvet (as I'm more of an owl than a lark) in the early dawn. </div>
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A second curlew book.<br />
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This time with an individual in mind, perhaps someone waiting for the tide and all that it might bring.<br />
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If you're in the Bristol area next weekend pop in, <a href="http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/series/babe-2017" target="_blank">BABE 2017</a> has lots to see including loads of wonderful bookish work, a mini exhibition, performances, book making workshops . . . it would be great to see you. I'll be in gallery 3 </div>
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Working to a deadline is always creative and kind of concentrates the mind. At the tail end of last year I had loads of time (where has it gone!) and now in the final few remaining day I'm gonna have to do some serious binding.</div>
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Inspired by the sound of curlews calling in the early dawn (as I lay in my cosy, warm bed) I imagined who else might be listening to them at that time of the day. I thought about someone waiting on the sea wall for a boat to come in . . . waiting for the tide to turn.</div>
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Tidesman, is a customs officer who waited the arrival of a vessel.</div>
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Making masks and planning registration on the press.<br />
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A morning playing with colour when I'd lost my sense of direction! . . .<br />
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back on track colour wise.<br />
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<br />Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-6290076335086929212016-08-08T18:21:00.002+01:002016-08-08T18:21:55.117+01:00The trusty Adana is all fired up!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The Adana is oiled and all fired up and I've been making some book-club inspired greeting cards. </div>
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These will be added to card stocks for book and art fairs for the coming months. Next, designing Christmas cards . . .</div>
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Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-1318213304388989572016-08-04T15:52:00.000+01:002016-08-04T16:32:09.906+01:00A cup of Tea ? . .Beneficence was made, got wrapped, and then accompanied me to a number of book fairs were it was well received (I'm glad to say).<br />
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Beneficence, of a person generous or doing good, which is often what is happening when we offer friends a cup of tea. And what I'm trying to achieve by using various, and bright colours, for the covers is to connect with feelings of warmth and optimism.<br />
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For various reasons (if you're curious please visit my <a href="http://mavinabaker.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">old blog</a>) I haven't posted any blogs in over a year, but now Teacup Press is back, although I still do need to build a studio!</div>
Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388238621015010543.post-54958239045420999202014-10-21T16:24:00.002+01:002014-10-21T16:24:52.722+01:00A Cup of Tea? . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In May this year I worked on a new series of prints, <b>Storms in a Teacup</b>, a metaphor for how friends come together over a cup of tea (or coffee) and ‘<i>put the world to rights</i>’ whether that means supporting each other through the trials and tribulations of life, or just for a good gossip!</div>
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This has developed into pushing some ideas around for a concertina book, in which I've decided to use having a cup of tea as my subject matter, employing it again as a metaphor for social relationships. Objects already invested with meaning used to symbolise friendship, memory, ritual, intimacy and shared identities, and with this I hoped to show the narratives of family and social relationships. </div>
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But it's taken me most of the summer to decide on a text, in fact I wasn't really getting anywhere and had rather forgotten my original point (as the text in these images shows) and it had languished on a shelf in the studio for some weeks. </div>
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However, a comment by a friend staying with us lodged in my brain, <i>"a cup of tea?"</i> and I found myself using it today when working on a poem for a new series of workshops at <a href="http://bluegatepoets.org/" target="_blank">BlueGate Poets</a>, starting this coming weekend with <a href="http://carrieetter.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Carrie Etter</a>. </div>
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And I realised, this is kind of what I want for this project. A simple, pared down narrative.</div>
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A cup of tea?</div>
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A cup of tea would be nice.</div>
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The flicker of a smile</div>
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Walking to the sink,</div>
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noticing golden autumn light</div>
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slanting through distant trees,</div>
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Filling the kettle</div>
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she patiently waits for it to boil.</div>
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<i>Falling Gently</i> began life as my response to the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition Project.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/mutanmain12.htm" target="_blank">An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street</a> followed on from the Broadside project that San Francisco based poet, and bookseller Beau Beausoleil initiated back in 2009. A coalition project that was formed as a protest, and to bear witness, to those that were killed or injured in the car bombing on the 5th March 2007, in Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad. The street was the historical centre of Baghdad's booksellers and the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community.</div>
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In 2010 myself and many other artists who make books were invited to create three books for the exhibition, An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street, representing the books destroyed or damaged in the explosion.</div>
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I created three books with a deliberately limited palette, to symbolise loss. Family grief lent a bitter edge to my thoughts for this project. A project which grew out of hurt and death. </div>
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I thought of all those that had lost loved ones, the fragility of life and the strength of a family to endure such loss when it is out of time. The project is both a lament and a commemoration of the singular power of books.</div>
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Beau Beausoleil and Deema Shehabi have worked together to form an <a href="http://www.al-mutanabbistreetstartshere-boston.com/" target="_blank">anthology</a> of the work produced, published by PM Press. </div>
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Since that time I have produced a 2nd edition of Falling Gently.<br />
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When terrible things happen, the immediate aftermath is difficult (to say the least) and with this 2nd edition I wanted colour to play a more uplifting role. In using various and bright colours, I want symbolise the intrinsic nature of people to continue through adversity.<br />
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The targeted attack on this 'street of the booksellers', using such indiscriminate brute force to maim and kill, is ultimately futile.<br />
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Books, libraries and the people who make them, have been destroyed countless times, since 48 BC with the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, through Nazis Germany up to and including Al-Mutanabbi Street. But people will persevere. And, as reliable as the turning of the seasons more poets, writers, artists and philosophers will step forward to bring their ideas into the light.<br />
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I print from hand cut lino blocks using my albion press and add text digitally. The cards are left blank inside for your personal message.</div>
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However, if you would like me to write your sentiments inside, send me information with what you would like stated, and I’ll print that digitally on the inside.</div>
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<b>Teacup greeting card, no1</b><br />
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Each card is a unique handmade greeting card, printed onto white card with a kraft paper envelope. </div>
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Memories is a book made as an emotional response to the loss of a friend and the acceptance that there are some things in life that we cannot change.</div>
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Cloth bound, concertina fold, digital print, size closed 200 x 130 mm and made in an edition of 50.<br />
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Standing between trees this evening, </div>
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Evoking memories in a silent acquiescence</div>
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The theme for Februarys meeting of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/stroudartistsbooks/" target="_blank">Stroud Artists' Books</a> 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.<br />
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