Book 2 - It's cold in here

 

'It's cold in here', monoprint, graphite and white pencil.

Book 1 - I don’t know where to start

'I don't know where to start', monoprint and graphite.

Artists’ books talk

Sumi Perera, Clothes Encounters (detail of one page)

We had a great talk on artists’ books from Katherine Anteney at Cowprint last month. We were given a brief history from the 19th Century to present day which was so interesting and useful. Katherine showed us lots of examples from William Blake and Pierre Bonnard to Ed Ruscha and Dieter Roth to Ben Denver and Sumi Perera - and many others.

Need to investigate these further - so many interesting book artists out there.
 

Dieter Roth, Daily Mirror book, 1961.
Miniature book with cut newspapers, 2.3 x 2 x 1.9cm

Printmaking!

Actually did some printmaking at the weekend. Was getting rather despondent and anxious about my lack of progress on the current project as apart from a couple of half-finished pop-ups, I’m getting absolutely nowhere. So I decided I’m going to make a book about the fact that I can’t get going on this project... sort of an artists’ book about not being able to make art. See where that takes me.

More Brickworks photos

More pictures from the Bursledon Brickworks. Now that it’s open for the Summer I’m trying to get over there once a week for research. Still feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all; so much of interest, lots of hints of ideas swilling around in my head but can’t see to grasp anything concrete yet.