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October's issue of Art Review magazine includes details of Leonie Lachlan's City Cypher books. The third in the award winning series will be shown for the first time at the London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery. Images of the new book will follow shortly.
Inspired by the colours created by acid, I have printed the second of the three Blake plates in an edition of 25 colour prints which I am calling 'Illuminated Printing' as each one differs slightly.
This is the book I am making with Oliver Clark and Incline Press. I spent two days at Greenside School in Shepherds Bush, which was designed by Erno Goldfinger. One day was spent with some of the children so that I could see the school through their eyes (they each made a drypoint print for the book) and the other day was spent drawing. The book, created to raise money for the school, is available at Collinge & Clark bookshop.
Sparksartists were invited to exhibit in the Town Hall where part of Thame's inaugural Arts and Literature Festival is taking place. Here is the banner we printed at p's & q's press for the event.
I am experimenting with William Blake's method of creating plates for 'illuminated printing'. No-one really knows what this was, but I have tried the technique I was shown at the Tate Gallery on three plates and finally it works. This is a newly etched plate. I love the colours on copper freshly out of the acid.
Inspired by the colours created by acid, I have printed the second of the three Blake plates in an edition of 25 colour prints which I am calling 'Illuminated Printing' as each one differs slightly.
This is the book I am making with Oliver Clark and Incline Press. I spent two days at Greenside School in Shepherds Bush, which was designed by Erno Goldfinger. One day was spent with some of the children so that I could see the school through their eyes (they each made a drypoint print for the book) and the other day was spent drawing. The book, created to raise money for the school, is available at Collinge & Clark bookshop.
Sparksartists were invited to exhibit in the Town Hall where part of Thame's inaugural Arts and Literature Festival is taking place. Here is the banner we printed at p's & q's press for the event.
I am experimenting with William Blake's method of creating plates for 'illuminated printing'. No-one really knows what this was, but I have tried the technique I was shown at the Tate Gallery on three plates and finally it works. This is a newly etched plate. I love the colours on copper freshly out of the acid.
I have worked out how best to edition Sonnet XLIII. The idea for it was first formed in response to looking at the Tudor painted ceiling in Thame's new museum and drawing it as part of The Big Draw in October last year.
All day today I have been making the very last paper cast insert for Sleep Walking Through Trees (boxed) using this mould. If you zoom out through the studio door you might find the weeping ash that inspired the mould. In a week or two the whole edition (45 copies of which 15 are boxed) will be complete, having been bound at the Fine Book Bindery. The earliest copies of this letterpress edition started to be collected about four years ago, and printing began not long after my printing press arrived from Brighton. I should celebrate...
Thank you Fine Press Book Association for organising this show! I wish there was a permanent space somewhere so I could finish reading Neil Boulsford's engraved 'Cycle' images, arranged in chapters on the right hand wall. It would be so good if the V&A (who have his book) kept a permanent changing space for books to be seen.
