This is a selling exhibition on Tuesday 6th November and Wednesday 7th November in North Yorkshire.
Please contact me if you would like further details
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I look forward to seeing you at the Fine Press Book Fair, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford
Saturday 3rd November 11 am - 6 pm
Sunday 4th November 10 am - 5 pm
Private Presses from the UK and overseas
Specialist booksellers and bookbinders
Refreshments
Admission by catalogue £5 valid both days
For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by colour - getting the right palette of colours in my bookbinding is something of an obsession for me. Colour pervades everthing we do, what we wear, our likes and dislikes. Consider our different reaction to green apples and green meat. Even our characters are affected by the psychology of colour.
Recently I have been taking my research and interest further and taken a course in colour psychology. This will help me greatly in my bookbinding. It will also allow me to help others. People have a natural affinity with one colour group. Johannes Itten found that his students at the Bauhaus had their own personal conception of colour harmony. The colour phychologist Angela Wright has developed this further by placing people into four personality types. Understanding which group you are in is the key part of being comfortable in your own skin.
Do contact me if you want to know more.
Do have a look at Isabella Whitworth’s website. There is a link to it on my Links page. We did a collaboration earlier in the year. Isabella did a resist dyed silk cover for a book which I bound as a wedding present for her relation. It was good to collaborate at an early stage and get the colours to coordinate.
This month I have a promotion on at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen with a 10% off prices. I’m sure there must be a witty caption to go with this title but I’m a bit brain dead having just done Contemporary Craft Fair!
I have just got back from doing the Contemporary Craft Fair. It was a great 3 days with alot of interest and sales. My labyrinth books caused much interest and I now know more about labyrinths than at the start of the Fair. Bovey Tracey, Devon is the most beautiful location and we had amazing weather. Maybe a trifle hot for those of us in the centre of the marquee!
It was with sadness that I heard of the death of Sally Lou Smith. She taught me at the Stanhope Institute in Queen Square in the early ’70’s.
She was a determined teacher and set very high standards. Always very clear in her directions to guide you. I have always admired her binding designs and enjoyed that photo of her with trousers rolled up and taking photos of massive mud cracks. It was then so intriguing to see those cracks in the designs of some of her bindings.
She was an Hon. Fellow and past President of Designer Bookbinders.
The back cover of Mediterranean Food. I had had such fun doing the edge decoration that I wanted you guys to see it too!!!
I have completed Elizabeth David’s Mediterranean Food in time for The Contemporary Craft Fair. This Fair is Craft’s Council accredited and is to be held at Bovey Tracey in Devon from June 8th - 10th. I will be on stand 39. So DO come!
www.craftsatboveytracey.co.uk
This was the book that you saw me working on earlier and at varying stages.
