Contemporary Fine Art Bindings

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Friday, 30 August 2013

Lysistrata, finished.

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Having taken something like 200 hours Lysistrata is finished. I enjoyed working on this so much.  Front doubler and end paper. ...

Emirates LitFest

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Lysistrata, the folio, and the beginning of the label making.

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Sunday, 18 August 2013

Studio5 on Face Book.

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Studio5 on Face Book.
Saturday, 17 August 2013

Lysistrata, back doubler 95% finished.

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So near to completion, but now is the time to stop and look. Keep looking. Next is an enclosure for the advertisement. Then the box, I a...
Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Lysistrata. Front Doubler 95% finished.

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Now to the back doubler.
Saturday, 3 August 2013

Lysistrata, outside 95% complete.

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Friday, 2 August 2013

NO NO Lysistrata.

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NO. Lysistrata.

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Lysistrata, front board.. the work continues.

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Thursday, 1 August 2013

Lysistrata, the front board.

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Early days....
Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Lysistrata, back board finished for the time being.

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I really like to work free hand, the joy of using mixed media allows for so much freedom of expression. Though the traditional aspects ...
Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Lysistrata, Collage begins.

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Ancient Greece divided by war. Invasion. The protagonists. Time and date. Wasting of blood. Lessons ...
Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Kintsugi Binding and stand finished.

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Monday, 15 July 2013

Lysistrata, base dying complete.

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I am liking this the book. The base dying is complete. Though we think of the obvious, there are the underlying tensions o...
Friday, 12 July 2013

The Lysistrata of Aristophanes, first dying process.

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Thursday, 11 July 2013

The Lysistrata of Aristophanes. Forwarding the book.

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Forgive the terrible image. After guarding all the sections the text block was  sewn with an unsupported link stitch with secondary s...
Monday, 8 July 2013

Man Booker Binder 2013

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Have just been informed that I will be one of this years Man Booker Binders.

The Lysistrata of Aristophanes by Aubrey Beardsley.

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 Boo Boo Pink endbands. What a super name for a delicious colour. The endpapers, pinkish fragments of part of one of the illustra...
Sunday, 7 July 2013

Summer and Flottage.

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 The sun has arrived and with it out-door pursuits. A morning of colour. Papers decorated, ready to use on bindings.