C is for COCK-A-HOOP (extremely and obviously pleased)
The latest illustrations in my collaboration with Swedish book artist Eva Hejdström.
B & C
B is for BRUKSANVISNING (a user manual)
Arboretum
A small woodland has sprung up in my studio as I make up more copies of 'Twenty Trees (as seen from a train)'.
Letterpress loveliness
Spent a very enjoyable few hours on Saturday at the British Printing Society Fair… over 40 stalls of letterpress and printing paraphernalia. A very generous goody bag was given on arrival containing all manner of printed matter. Picked up a couple of bargains - two vintage boxes of envelopes (£2!) and an amazing book called ‘A Handbook of Type and Illustration’ (by John Lewis, 1956) which includes beautiful reproductions of work by Edward Bawden, Edward Ardizzone and George Chapman. The highlight was a talk by Martin Andrews from the University of Reading who spoke about the life and work of Robert Gibbings. Totally fascinating, and a real privilege to see print proofs of collaborations with Eric Gill from the Golden Cockerel Press handed round.
Hot off the press
Just received delivery of a stash of flat printed sheets to be made up into new books. Ten White Beasts and Ten White Blooms. Thanks to printed.com again for doing an excellent job!
Ten orange cracker books
Flocked and finished - hurray!
Cracker books are go
Final stages of the edition of ten cracker books… all the components are ready for assembly - just need to start sticking.
Working it out
Initial pencil crayon sketches to work out colour overlays for a new illustrated book - Ten White Blooms (final part of the trilogy to accompany Beasts and Birds).
