Thursday 29 August 2024

Lewes District ARTWAVE 2024 7th - 22nd September


I will be exhibiting for all three weekends of ARTWAVE 
7/8th   14/15th  21/22nd September  11am- 5pm
Carolyn Trant Studio, Lewes Con Club, 
139 High Street, 
Lewes BN7 1XS


     venue 34 in the brochure, Lewes Trail map

Billed as ...woodcut mayhem, freaks and wonders, fat cats and creatures great and small...images from the Circus book can be seen on the post below.... I will also be showing new prints done for the show as part of my preparation work for my next book and a selection from my usual prints and artists books. 


www.artwavefestival.org    for all other details



Thursday 6 June 2024

BABE at UWE Bristol 29/30th June

 I shall have a stand at this always wonderful event - I am in one of the printmaking studios again - 

I shall be showing my very new book The Amazing (F)lying Circus limited edition book - only 13 copies (they take a very long time to do)...13 seems a suitably evil number...as it says on he cover Something Wicked This Way Comes....

I am reviving the art of the Victorian thematic scrapbook in a suitably scurrilous manner ....

I will also be showing more large woodcut books....

https://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2024/










Saturday 20 April 2024

Next exhibiting Event - INK PAPER PRINT fair Lewes Town Hall Saturday 25th May

 


I shall have a stand at this fair 

(formerly at Towner Eastbourne ) 

and showing new book The Amazing (F)Lying Circus
                                                        note on for one day only.....

                                                        more images to follow....

Wednesday 6 December 2023

OXFORD FINE PRESS FAIR 23 SATURDAY /SUNDAY 9/10 DECEMBER

 




JUST REALISED I HAVE BEEN SO BUSY MAKING THAT I DIDN'T POST THIS UP

last copies available here at Oxford…



AND OTHER FAIRY TALES


THE FALCON BRIDE


MHARBNA


THE RHYME OF THE REDDLEMAN’S DAUGHTER


plus tunnel book version


SOME LIGHT REMAINS


INFERNO celebrating 700 anniversary

small version plus larger cartonera street version



THE UNTENANTED ROOM v large version


plus new


THE TOWERS FALL


also available



cartoneras – Ship of Fools, Fool gets Sick, 

Map of Lost Cuckoos, Bonfire of Vanities




small books – The Magic Rabbit, Family Album,

Jeus d’Enfants, Brighton Belle….collagraph books


Pastoral...celebrating 200 years of Blake’s wood- 

engravings with 17 of my own woodcuts


SHIP OF FOOLS – woodcut concertina book



hand-cut and printed woodcut ‘Tarot’ packs or sets of prints ,

 on ecological themes – earth air fire and water



THE LITTLE CIRCUS IN THE FOREST

triple layer hand-cut shaped concertina book

with 22 woodcut scenes

in slipcase also containing digitally produced text of the 

poems 

by James Simpson which inspired the project

hand-bound by Rachel Ward-Sale




Friday 29 September 2023

Wonder at Fitzroy

 My Wonder Box exhibited at Fitzroy House - an old Gilbert Scott private lending library - is an extension of my Window of Wonder in the High Street - see previous post....




It is called The Untenanted Room - from The Little Bookshop at the end of the World...and it invites the viewer to consider further the whole idea of cabinets of Curiosities in 2023. We are now in a crisis - being reminded that we are just part of the natural world, not onlookers viewing, and collecting, displaying  curiosities to be marvelled at, consumables to be collected.

We are part of a marvellous universe that is all around us if we know how and where to look, but which is in dire need of protecting and being encouraged to flourish,

My box celebrates the beauty of decay - a natural part of the life-cycle - whilst reflecting on the emptying of the living world, the dessicating effect of numbering and categorising of all parts of it - including us, people, tribes of all kinds... with old photographs of dead specimens papering the outside of the box.

The texts are from a long poem sequence The Untenanted Room by James Simpson, with whom I have worked for the last 20 years on many Artists Book projects. 



The exhibition is open weekends from 12 - 4 from 30th September until Saturday 28th October

Wednesday 30 August 2023

Wonder Windows

.... here are some fabulous photos of my window and setting up alongside Emma Carlow in the next bay...taken by Catherine Benson for the press release and the project

@catherinebensonphoto      thanks Catherine!












Friday 18 August 2023

LEWES ARTWAVE - OPEN STUDIO - WINDOWS OF WONDER TRAIL and WONDER BOX, FITZROY HOUSE




 




This year I am opening my studio again for Lewes Art Wave , with usual studio clear out and new bargains surfacing, plus lots of cartoneras and prints

first three weekends of September - 10.30- 5pm, disabled access, (bar in afternoons from 2.30 and lovely garden)
CON CLUB 139 High Street Lewes BN7 1XS
( I love that excess)

I am also exhibiting in a shop window - the right-hand window of the old Sussex Stationers at the top of School Hill. no 34 and 35 - on the corner with Walwers Lane; this window used to be full of books so it is great to be showing my Artists Books there as a Window of Wonder in an installation of ecological books, a bit of a trip down memory lane, with texts from poems by James Simpson from our last nearly twenty years of collaborations.
This will be up throughout September and up to 28 October







And I will also be contributing a WonderBox to the event at 
Fitzroy House - 10 High Street Lewes, in the precinct 
- I hope you can read the poster above but look up 
for more information