Tuesday 27 September 2011

LONDON ART BOOK FAIR

The fair was great fun as usual - thank you to everyone who came and talked to me, great to see old friends and meet new ones.
Here's my stand....
and here is the whole stand with Peter Chasseaud's work too....


Dmitry Sayenko's work looked wonderful as usual, he was sharing with Valeria Brancaforte, I really enjoyed meeting her too.
Her website and blog have wonderful images with hand cut lettering...
http://valeriabrancaforte.blogspot.com
http://www.valeriabrancaforte.com


Altogether a good experience ...but exhausting.....
even the woodpecker got tired

my photo of Mark Cockram's 'buried and resurrected book in a birdcage' which I loved.

Sunday 18 September 2011

NEXT WEEK

....I shall be at the Whitechapel London Art Book Fair- I can't upload the image and invite but you can e-mail me for one if you haven't already received one - don't forget to RSVP to the Whitechapel.
Otherwise I look forward to seeing people on the open days friday to sunday, times below.....



THE LONDON ART BOOK FAIR

THE DIRECTOR AND TRUSTEES OF
THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY INVITE YOU TO A SPECIAL
PREVIEW OF THE LONDON ART BOOK FAIR

PREVIEW
THURSDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2011, 6–9PM

FAIR
FRIDAY 23 UNTIL SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2011
11AM–6PM ADMISSION FREE

RSVP BY 19 SEPTEMBER 2011
E: BOOKFAIRPREVIEW@WHITECHAPELGALLERY.ORG
T: +44 (0)20 7539 3316



The London Art Book Fair
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
T +44 (0)20 7522 7888
F +44 (0)20 7377 1685
thelondonartbookfair.com

Wednesday 7 September 2011

Linklater Pavilion Print Show



Lewes Printmakers
- my printmaking group - had a really good weekend last week in our opening weekend in Lewes ArtWave, in the lovely new Linklater Pavilion.
We must have had around 500 visitors, saturday was non-stop busy, so I gave up counting and there was not much of a lull even on the rainy sunday. I was up there early on sunday morning to watch the results of the moth hunt and capture from the night before with my young nephew - fascinating, some really delicate beauties.
We have a lot of good wildlife images in the show and our next book is going to be about the river and its ecology, the Railway Land and the Pavilion.
But we also have a good variety of other images which we have been selling off the walls.

Next weekend is the last weekend to get along - we'll be opening at 10 as there are other events happening on the site as well so should be a good weekend and the forecast is for the sun to shine.

You can see some images by clicking onto our Lewes Printmakers website
http://paddockprints.wordpress.com

I just found the article by The Argus newspaper about the festival and found some 'comments' by myself from a telephone conversation with a reporter who rang me up ( I do wish they wouldn't use quote marks - but it more or less gives a rough impression of what I tried to say...)which echo the comment of the organiser Angie Osborne "...who suggests it is this interaction between differing artists that sees the festival grow in popularity each year.

“We attract some people who are completely professional and who earn a good living from their work. By taking part they support other artists,” she says.

“They’ll be in an open house with people who have maybe only just started, so it comes full-circle. It’s a really good mix and it’s not ego based. It’s about getting good, diverse, across-the-board creativity.”

Some venues also offer visitors the chanceto peek behind the curtain and see the processes involved in the creation of artworks and exhibited pieces.

The Lewes Printmakers, formerly the Paddock Printmakers, based in the Linklater Pavilion, is one such space.


“Our group is geared toward people who make prints about Lewes. We sell those prints and also demonstrate how they are done, using wood, lino and other recycled materials such as cardboard, packaging and junk,” explains Carolyn Trant, one of a number of artists involved in the collective.

“The group are all-comers – some are incredibly professional, while some have only been doing it for a short time. This isn’t posh art for posh people, it’s very good art for everybody. We’re making it accessible to allow people to see and understand how it is done.”

We don't just make prints about Lewes but that is a good basis for our communal projects which give an inspiration support for those who are at more of a loss as to where to begin and inspire others to try things they may not attempt otherwise and surprise themselves.

We have had a nice tweet from the organisation below which we are grateful for - I've just checked out their site and they sound really interesting...
http://www.doubleelephant.org.uk