I am trying some different bookwork constructions to broaden my skills and also to learn more about measuring correctly – such an important aspect to making books.
Coptic Binding: A daily journal and sketchbook ( June 2025): a sewn bookwork with the thread on the outside of the book. Incorporating sketches and notes from visits around London in 2025. The cover and end page are decorative papers from Falkiners Paper Shop in London.
Dos-a-Dos Tacket Book : (September 2025) : a double sided bookwork with two separate signatures; the spine is sewn using a tacket overlapped thread. The cover is hand-painted with acrylic on watercolour paper on both sides.
Concertina bookwork with corrugated card cover: The Herds are Coming to London, (May 2025). I made this book after seeing the Herds that came to Somerset House in London: Hand constructed large, life size animals: giraffes, lions, baboons, etc. A wonderful event that travelled from Africa to the Arctic and many countries on the way.
Two small Scroll books: (August 2025): the flowery cover is a gelli print on thin Japanese paper and the second is a digital print of graffiti on a postbox in Holloway Road, London. I need to research the Chinese Scroll and work with some kind of closure – more work to do.
Um: (Spring 2025) bookwork made after my visit to the Futurism Exhibition at the Estorick Collection in Islington. The cover is corrugated cardboard, the sewing is coptic, not easy as the card tends to pull apart. Inside are images and text from the exhibition.
