Studio 5 Book Arts

Progress on the first set of boards ( St Matthew) the initial guide lines have been worked out and the collage has begun to take shape over ...

The boards have been covered in fair goat skin with the key lines for the design being worked on to all 8 boards. Using a variety of techniq...

Now that the turn-ins have been done the first design is complete. The text carries on from the first doubler to the last and reads as follo...

Leather jointed end papers and full wrap round doublers. The leather joints have been inserted and the boards in-filled to create a smooth f...

The leather (fair goat) is cut to size and pared down to 0.5 mm with the turn ins to 0.4-0.3 mm. The dye stuff is then applied, in this case...

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...