Autumn has been a remarkable season here in London, UK; the warm summer has created a long autumn with such an array of colour: leaves from pale yellow to dark purple. I have been collecting flora from Hampstead Heath and Waterlow Park in North London for a while now, and so far I have made four autumn related bookworks
The Darkening Sky: folded bookwork: 10 x 10 cm. Printed on heavy cartridge paper on my Epson Printer. This is a folded bookwork, each section has an Autumn related poem on the inside. The title is a line from one of my own poems included in the bookwork : The leaves darken and tremble, fluttering to the dusty ground, as I continue my walk under the darkening sky..
Each folded page has a poem inside, including a potent quote by the exiled Palistinian poet Mourad Bhargouti. “Many fruits fall from the tree, long before they are ripe“.
Monoprint of autumn flora. I started with a large A2 sheet of paper and made monoprints using leaves, bark, berries, etc. in acrylic and printing ink. Then I scanned in sections of the monoprint for my bookwork, so that each section was a different colour
