Printing – Page 24 – Annwyn Dean

It’s been two weeks since Art in the Pen, all my work is packed away and the studio is tidy.

It is summer (either too wet or too hot!) and there are few pressures on my time, so what art work I have done has been gently undertaken. There are no events in the diary, but I’m optimistic that there will be some lovely events coming up next year to apply for.

I have been giving much thought to the ‘Collections” idea and this has resulted in the following:

I have printed some more of the “Stitches in the Cloth’ plate to make small mementos books

And six postcards, which will become a series of 25 and they will need printed text on the reverse. More will be done over the winter

Wrapped in tissue and labelled

I ripped up 215 2cm squares of 250gsm paper and printed them – what a Collection!

I have ideas as to their usage over the coming months but further planning is needed

Book Making, Exhibitions, Printing

Conversations – 12th August 2019

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My time has been taken up with planning and preparing for Art in the Pen in Skipton Auction Mart.

There are 200 pens, decorated as mini galleries and the place is alive with jolly noise and lots of visitors. Of course all the artists also manage to catch up with other exhibitors and it is great to be a part of such a major event, now in its 14th year.

I was there with my fellow book artists, Joan Newall and Elizabeth Shorrock as PagePaperStitch.

I find that I measure events in the number of ‘good conversations’ that I have both with the visitors and with fellow exhibitors hearing all their news since we last met. This year was a good year and it’s always lovely to hear from people where my books are and how they are being enjoyed.

Everything is now packed away and I have cleaned and polished the studio, so I’m ready to continue my explorations into collections and unpicked seams.

The top of my paper chest has little piles on it with the uncompleted and planned books which i did just prior to the event at the week end. I have no other event planned so I can explore, experiment and play to my own time scale.

Book Making, Printing

Process and Completion – 15th July 2019

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This last two weeks has seen me not doing too much in the studio – I have been playing about with mock up books and the idea that the ‘Collection’ of printing plates has become the essence of current work rather than the antique fragments of cloth. I shall have to see where that leads me, I’m happy to be lead down a path that doesn’t have any particular aim at the moment as I have completed my work for my only planned event in August.

So as I mentioned last time here are the books from ‘Stories from the Cloth”

The covers were made and glued, held under weights for a day to dry.