May is going to be a very busy month...I will be exhibiting at the FPBA Fine Press Fair in Oxford at the Examination Rooms 3-4 May and will post up a flier as soon as we get one . I am also giving a talk again this year...called Bridging Gaps and Pushing Boundaries: some twentieth century British Women Artists and Book Arts.
It will include some wood engravers, and Pearl Binder, Kathleen Hale, Betty Swanwick, Frances Clayton, Olive Cook, Barbara Jones, Rena Gardner and others associated with book arts..
17th and 18th May I will showing at the Art Workers Guild where I am a brother as part of London Craft Week… go to artworkersguild.org to see what is going on and how to book for the special talks and tours of the lovely building
And
on the 24th May I will be taking part in Ink Paper
Print in Lewes Town Hall with a stand
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At all these I will showing work in progress - as well as some old favourites – what will be my scrapbooks as part of a project called Entre Chien et Loup: Orbis Pictus...an Encyclopedia of Images for Twilight Times.I have cut lots of woodblocks over the last few months and am currently printing them up to see what I have got but it is an ever evolving project and I am just going where it leads me – further details and images in due course.as it unfolds.
