Some of the work displayed here was created in response to a monthly theme suggested for members of Stroud Artists Books. The support and encouragement I receive from this group is huge. I am also a member of The Bookband collaborative group and this is informing my individual work and contributing to my inspiration and creativity.
Nothing Matters centre
Nothing Matters centre
Front cover exposed
Nothing Matters page
Nothing Matters page detail
Nothing Matters
Nothing Matters: cord-bound half
Nothing Matters Contents
Nothing Matters Contents
Nothing Matters detail
Nothing Matters - central pages
Nomad packaged
Nomad packaged for carrying
Nomad Front page
Nomad Front page
Nomad detail
Nomad detail - next 4 pages
Nomad detail
Nomad detail 4 pages
Nomad
Nomad unfolded
Nomad
Machine embroidered on felt insoles
You Can't Believe Your Eyes
A box containing optical illusions and mysteries
You Can't Believe Your Eyes
Box open from one side reveals two compartments
You Can't Believe Your Eyes
Box opened from opposite side to reveal a single compartment
The Persistence of Life
Outer box which can contain the fully opened border book within
The Persistence of Life
The border book is contained in a small reliquary with a note to whoever/whatever comes next...
The Persistence of Life
A border book contained in a small box inside a larger display box. It tells of the great mass extinctions when opened fully.
Extended Cognition
A secret piano hinge double concertina structure, this book explores how spiders extend their cognition through their silk
Extended Cognition detail
An overview of the construction of this book
Extended Cognition cover
The cover of this book shows connections throughout the universe
Batfarare (Sea Farers)
A theatre book made in collaboration with Eva Spikbacka for Da Kontakt exhibitions in Sweden and the UK
Jinotega Cemetary Front Cover - flag book
Jinotega Cemetary flag book
Jinotega Cemetary close-up - reverse flags
Jinotega Cemetary close-up - flags on reverse side
Jinotega Cemetary - flags fanned out
Jinotega Cemetary - Flag book with flags fanned out
Jinotega Cemetary close-up - front flags
Jinotega Cemetary close-up - front flags
Jinotega Cemetary Front and Back covers
Jinotega Cemetary flag book front and back covers
Jinotega Cemetary - BackCover
Jinotega Cemetary - BackCover of flag book at the top of the cemetary hillside
Emus Find the Term 'Flightless Bird' Offensive
Two emus have constructed their very own aircraft. Original ink drawing.
Secretary Bird's nest - screenprint
Secretary Bird's nest - screenprint from original ink drawing
New Street Station, Birmingham.
New Street Station, Birmingham. Polymer photogravure from original photograph.
Brood X - celebrating the cicada brood of 2021
Brood X - celebrating the cicada brood of 2021. A winged book made from bible paper to resemble the mechanism by which cicadas chirrup.
Brood X unfolding
Brood X unfolding - bible paper and inkjet print
Brood X unfolded
Brood X unfolding - bible paper and inkjet print with collagraph embossed covers
All the While He Was Quietly...
All the While He Was Quietly... book made from single sheet of paper, from Hedi Kyle structure with added tunnel.
No Thing So Ordinary - a celebration of the joy of scientific knowledge
Made during a course with Sue Doggett at City Lit, this book uses a piano hinge structure. It is inkjet printed on Bockingford Watercolour paper. The contents depict wonders of the natural world and the title paraphrases a quotation from Lee Smolin.
No Thing So Ordinary
Structure detail
No Thing So Ordinary
A test tube holds the piano hinge together. It is filled with natural wonders such as seeds and shells.
No Thing So Ordinary
The hidden spine enclosed by the piano hinge
No Thing So Ordinary
Back cover
Dazzling Blue Envelope
Made for the Stroud Artists Book theme of 'Envelope" in March 2020. Triangle fold structure from Hedi Kyle. DurALar monoprint and inkjet interior folded section.
Dazzling Blue triangle fold
Structure from Hedi Kyle. Monoprinted DurALar cover and inkjet printed triangular folded pages.
Dazzling Blue - triangle fold
Central triangular pages fold out to show a sound envelope of the song 'Dazzling Blue' by Paul Simon
Palimsest - old scientific ideas overwritten with new
A book for the theme of Palimpsest for Stroud Artists Books February 2021.
Palimpsest
The Four Humours and bacteria
Palimpsest
The four Elements and the Periodic Table
Palimpsest
The story of the Creation and Evolution
Flatulent Flautist
A collaboration with Kit Tyrrell - words from a single page of a dictionary were exchanged and we made books in response.
This book is a concertina structure, inkjet printed on card and Japanese rice paper.
Flatulent Flautist text
This is the text within the concertina using each word from the dictionary page to tell a story...
Flatulent Flautist - reverse
Printed with a flute score and the words used in the text.
Collective Nouns
A double-faced set of pages that define the types of nouns and my imagined opposites, for example, Abstract Nouns and Concrete Nouns. With arbitrary examples.
Collective Nouns
A collaboration with Kit Tyrrell - words from a single page of a dictionary were exchanged and we made books in response.
This book is a concertina structure, inkjet printed on card.
Pandemic Essentials
A collection of scrolls that describe the things that became essential during the lock-down 2020
Pandemic Essentials
Pages printed with a Gelli Plate and then rolled into quills, joined with split-pins and grouped into a cover from which they spill out.
Cut Up
Cover of the Cut Up book woven from two colours of thin card.
Cut Up
A panel structure from Hedi Kyle playing on the different uses of the word Cut: cut up, cut down, cut across, etc. The cover is woven paper.
Pangrams
Japanese stab bound book of 26 pangrams. Cover and pages digitally designed and printed. Linen sewn. Edition of 3.
Babel Fish
Meobius strips with information about the Babel Fish (from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy) fixed with a screw and embellished with an origami fish. Each strip holds a sentence from the book excerpt written in English on one side, and a different language on the other.
Twilight - book from costume
Twilight - book created from an original piece of wearable art. To be hung or rolled.
Sharpness lift-up book
Hand-bound pop up box with mechanism that presents the inner book when opening the outer, faux book.
Sharpness inner book detail
A book of photographs taken at Sharpness and created as the centre-piece for the pop-up mechanism.
Holes in the Shape of the Sound of the Sea
Multi media tunnel book : pen and ink drawings, sand, paint. Sewn pages, printed cover. A tribute to Terry Pratchett.
I Come From...
4 books and jack-in-the-box
4 hand-made books showing how we got here, from the big bang through DNA to the exploration of space. The books are held in spaces around the box, which contains a jack-in-the-box. Mixed media including digital printing, embroidery and box-making techniques.
I Come From... (open)
Jack-in-the-box open - skirt is embroidered with "All the world's a stage..." from Macbeth. The handmade books slot around the box. Mixed media including digital printing, embroidery and box-making techniques.
Exposure
A book from hand-made glassine envelopes that each contains a card and legend describing how much of a substance is fatal. The cards incorporate many of the elements, such as salt, coffee and lemon. Hand-drawn cover and internal card images with hand-made bead.
Exposure - detail
A book from hand-made glassine envelopes that each contains a card and legend describing how much of a substance is fatal. The cards incorporate many of the elements, such as salt, coffee and lemon.
Holy Smoke
A stash box made from a found box, hand drawn smoke on lid. Inside are smoking components and a rolling machine. The "tobacco" is shredded pages from Deuteronomy. A book is produced by rolling a cigarette.
Holy Smoke - stash box interior
Tracks
A collection of 4 hand-made and bound triangular books featuring the lyrics of my favourite songs, which fit together within an old double CD case
Tracks - K2 (Elbow)
1 of 4 books designed to fit into a double CD case. Each book contains the lyrics of a favourite piece of music. Digitally printed, hand bound and stamped.
A Guide to English Grammar
A flag book which contains phrases that are made correctly and wrongly from the proper ordering of adjectives. Digitally printed with hand-made cover.
Nonsense poems about animals
What a Wonderful Bird the Frog Are and other silly verses I learned from my father
What a Wonderful Bird is the Pelican
What a Wonderful Bird is the Pelican
It's beak can hold more than its belly can
Verses - frog and swallow
Verses - frog and swallow. Text contained within images of animals. Injket print, book features slotted insert spine with no glue or sewing