Studio 5 Book Arts

Hi Paul, I hope these answers to your comment about the 4 gospels may be of interest to you.... The end papers were printed some time ago, s...

Two better images of Meditations Interrupted 3. Ta C. A busy time time, on Thursday a talk at the Art Workers Guild and today (Saturday) a t...

The final work in this series. I hope it will be on exhibition in April at the Flow Gallery in London..........

As part of the Brilliant Creatures exhibition at the Chapel Row Gallery (Bath) Some recent work will be on exhibition. www.chapelrowgallery....

A little rough and the collage images not right but like the way this is developing. Perhaps a combination of the previous ideas and this......

One of the design ideals is that the Four Gospels has a design that works in 4 ways. First is that the design works in a pictorial form with...

Both boards are on the maquette and the book structure looks as if it is going to work. Now comes the design process. With this sort of work...

I have spent the last week looking at folded pieces of paper. Working out the design for the Big 4 (The Four Gospels) There is so much to go...

With the leather on the spine, leather joint in place and the doubler wrapped around the inner boards it was time to work on the outer board...

With any new technique or variations of method I work everything out on a maquette (a practise book) The boards are a series of laminated wa...

The Four Gospels... A re-print of the famous Four Gospels by The Golden Cockerel Press. Fantastic stuff, lavish with the work of Gill, it do...

Gold and black line tooling finishes off the binding. Detail of the front board.

Now that the final panel is in place the finishing can start. I hope that the panel shapes reflect sails, ships hulls and the like.

The main construction of the book has been completed, now it is a case of applying the various panels. I am still keeping with the idea of t...

A new commission. As the title would suggest the content is about the River Mersey, the river, the buildings on the banks, the great, the go...

Both volumes finished. End papers and doublers.

The gold leaf was applied to the pre dyed surface of the leather (on the book) and worked over with warm tools. The design is fluid, free ha...

The surface of the leather has been worked over with a very fine silicon carbide paper and lots of small pieces of gold leaf have been appli...