artbookart
  • about us
  • blog
  • Gallery
  • Artists
    • Beyond the Page Exhibition
    • Chris Ruston
    • Lola Swain
    • Gwen Simpson
    • Karen Apps
    • Sally Chinea
    • Jane Woollatt
  • Events & Exhibitions
  • resources
  • contact us

Gwen Simpson

9/3/2014

1 Comment

 

A second book for the sequential chain poetry and artist Book of Sand. Hand cutting the silver birch trees for the centre page. Before sewing it into the next book a close up shot through the trees, is this what the wolf sees ?
Picture
Picture
Picture
1 Comment

Lola Swain

9/3/2014

0 Comments

 
Lola makes her own beautiful marbled paper to cover and bind her books.
Picture
0 Comments

Sandie Cottee

9/3/2014

0 Comments

 
Some more delights from Sandie Cottee...
0 Comments

Gwen Simpson

9/3/2014

0 Comments

 
ANNAL latin : a record of events in one year. A follow on from the 365 book . Covers tea bags, oil colour and wax varnish. 
Gwen's own art work features only once in each book, they happen to be birds in flight. There are some happy accidents too such as her grand daughter's drawing watching the antics of the wrapping paper cat playing with the sewing cotton.
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
0 Comments

Margaret Cooter

9/3/2014

0 Comments

 
The "clay books" started from a remark during my very first ceramics class, during the art foundation course I started in 2008. The tutor had us roll out a slab of clay and then said "Here are your clay notebooks" and we went on to impress patterns into them -  a process that I've returned to in recent ceramics work. Very recently I've been casting folded book structures in porcelain slip, producing abstracted shapes; some have decoration inside the porcelain, arising from dark slip that's been screenprinted onto the paper structure, which burns away during firing.
Picture
Picture
Picture
Each of the Binders Keepers (tool rolls for bookbinding tools) contains some of my Travel Lines fabrics, screenprinted from lines drawn while travelling on London Underground and buses. The Binders Keepers come in unique fabric combinations and are ready to fill with your favourite tools. (Sewing Companions - for sewing tools - are also available; see
 www.travel-lines-london.co.uk/sewing-companions.html.)



Picture
0 Comments

Kitty Guthrie Oakley

9/3/2014

0 Comments

 
 Kitty sent us photos of a new book 'Hand Shadows for Idle People', and the other of her books packaged up ready for the fair.
 
Picture
Picture
0 Comments

The first of ten….

4/3/2014

2 Comments

 


Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
2 Comments

ABA H.Q.

2/3/2014

1 Comment

 
Picture
On Saturday morning important final preparations got underway for the event. 

Following a leisurely start with coffee and scones, attention turned to assembling our collaborative book simply titled Artbookart. 


While these two slept soundly we were hard at work...
Picture
Picture
….collating the pages.
Picture
...measuring...
Picture
...and finally sewing.


Picture
The limited edition book, for which Louise Swain, Sally Chinea, Gwen Simpson, Lola Swain, Karen Apps and Chris Ruston have each contributed two pages, reflects the practice of each artist. The pages vary in their content and style, thereby making each book a unique artwork. This resulted in 10 small (A6) but beautiful little books bound with red thread using coptic stitch.

The books are made in a small edition of 10 copies and will be available for purchase at the HOFS on March 15th.
1 Comment

Lola Swain

2/3/2014

1 Comment

 
Lola Swain is cutting another lino block of lapwings flying. she tells us practise makes perfect! No sneak preview for the show yet but we know it will be worth waiting for and in the meantime you can see some more of Lola's work at http://www.lolaswainpottery.com/Home
Picture
1 Comment
    Picture

    ABA

    We are a small group of contemporary artists in Essex (UK) who share a passion for art and books.

    Picture

    Archives

    May 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    October 2018
    August 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    March 2014
    February 2014
    October 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012

    RSS Feed

    Picture
    Picture
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • about us
  • blog
  • Gallery
  • Artists
    • Beyond the Page Exhibition
    • Chris Ruston
    • Lola Swain
    • Gwen Simpson
    • Karen Apps
    • Sally Chinea
    • Jane Woollatt
  • Events & Exhibitions
  • resources
  • contact us