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Category Archives: Awards

There will be books…

I rather like this book cloth. I bought it from – you guessed it – Falkiners, and it is a rather nice Japanese silk brocade. I have teamed it with a modern paper called ‘Country Dance’ by Debra Glanz of Reminiscence Papers, bought from Paper Mojo. I love the contrast between the traditional outside and [...]

You make my day

The spring weather continues and this book uses a photograph that Number 1 son took in Bath last week. The crocuses are in full bloom but I notice there are still Autumn leaves amongst them It’s all very odd… I had an unexpected visitor this evening, the doorbell rang and I opened it to find [...]

A very good day

I’m not a great fan of brown and black together but this paper, a Japanese Chiyogami, works surprisingly well. I had an email from Falkiners yesterday, thanking me for mentioning them so often in my blog and saying they like what I do with their papers! I was really chuffed that they had noticed – [...]

Sun is shining…

This is another book I have made using the inkjet linen book cloth and one of my images – in this case, a photograph of a place in south Wales called Southerndown. I used to live in Cardiff and Southerndown was one of our favourite places to go for a walk at the weekend. This [...]

Books, books and more books

This paper reminds me of the wood block print by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai – ‘The Great Wave’ which I have always liked. The artist lived from 1760-1849 but this iconic image of Mount Fuji, framed by the wave is so contemporary. Read more about the artist and his work here. My back is [...]

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