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reduction woodcuts by Caroline Case
woodcuts and bronze/resin castings by Lin Biesheuvel
drypoints by Alison Sloggett
enamel bowls by Karen Murrell
etchings by Barbara Bluett
‘The Emerald City’ screenprint by Rebecca Weeks
The ‘Second Nature’ exhibition at The Island in Bristol by The Out of Print Collective.
Phew, exhibition all set up at The Island. I’ve used various acrylic plate stands and jewellery display plinths to display my books - it definitely seems to help to give them some height without cluttering things up too much.
Hope to see you at the exhibition - opens tomorrow (4 September) and runs until 5pm on 9 September.
Just making final preparations for taking part in a group exhibition opening next friday. Four new books will be on show, as well as some more established favourites made earlier in the year.
Stencil for rubber stamped title
Trial and error with stencils and stamps
Small-scale mock-up to work out pagination when setting up the artwork
A re-working of a one-off book of rubber stamp stencil illustrations I made a couple of years ago. I deconstructed the original book and scanned each page before enlarging the layout and getting it digitally printed as flat A2 sheets (by the excellent printed.com). I created new stamp-stencil artwork for the title bellyband. The format is a double concertina, which took a bit of head scratching to get the pagination correct. But it’s a very pleasing, solid structure once assembled. Scalpel at the ready to cut down and make up the first ten...
Hand carved rubber stamp leaves and photopolymer stamp labels
Leaves printed in yellow and blue neon ink, labels printed in midnight blue
Work in progress
Endpapers printed with photopolymer stamp made from a hand drawn leaf pattern
Five finished copies
A new book – cataloguing of the names of different leaf shapes. I used the rubber stamps I carved for my first book ‘Autumn Leaves – A Pocket Guide’ but printed them with my new neon inks. Printing the blue on top of the yellow makes a good bold green, with the added bonus of extra colours when slightly mis-registered. The colour prints well on the heavy Somerset velvet paper. The labels are photopolymer stamps I made, and printed in midnight blue. Endpapers are also a photopolymer stamp I created from hand drawn leaf pattern. The neon yellow ink prints really well on bright blue paper… makes your eyes jump. Cloth covered boards for the cover with a book cloth label and pamphlet stitching. To be added to the shop very soon...
Woodcut plates before assembly
Inked up plates assembled in a jig
First print of the first layer
The first layer of my jigsawed woodcut. Small rollers are essential to avoid muddying the colour separation. All the inked component parts are held together in cardboard jig before printing. Very excited to be able to print five colours in one press. Petals and patterned background will be added on the next layer…
Jigsawed woodcut plates
Finally got round to dusting off my scroll saw and cutting some woodcut plates into jigsawed component parts. This will enable me to print multiple colours at one time without needing to worry about registration.