A Bag of Books

The current passion is bookbinding and bookmaking. I have been creating Artist Journals based on some traditional bookbinding methods but tweaking them and making them my own.

These books feature a Piano Hinge style binding, a Japanese Stab Binding, Buttonhole Binding, Coptic Stitch Binding and a Simple Fabric covered Pamphlet Stitched Mini book.

I have also been experimenting with creating my own covers, end papers and signature wraps using papers that I have designed myself.

More on that later…..

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A Little Faux Post

Long ago in a galaxy far far away I began a love affair with the artwork of Nick Bantock and am thrilled that he has a new book called the Pharos Gate – continuing the Lost Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine.  This book, like all his others is filled with delicious eye candy as well as the continuation of a mesmerizing tale.

In 2008 I created my own faux fantasy place called Amora Island and used it as a theme place for a number of mixed media creations and editions of faux post.
Inspired by Nick Bantock’s latest work I decided to create a few new cards for Amora, this time using my digital tool box instead of the glue and paste versions of a’fore……

A little mad, a little whimsical but fun to create….. Enjoy!

Amora Island Faux Post 2016

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Abandoned NC in Black and White

A couple of times a year I venture to a favorite spot to shoot a bit of Carolina Abandonment and grunge…. and am always rewarded by the ever changing vista and incremental decay – and in some cases – destruction.

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As I tiptoe around rotten staircases and over garbage left by ‘ravers’ – I can’t help but wonder of the stories these rooms and walls might tell….

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And am also appalled at the wanton destruction of old and once beautiful things….

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