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At long last

19/2/2015

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Last year I thought it might be fun to make one-off books from time to time.  For fun, I repeat.  For no purpose other than fun.  I started with a simple concertina monotype book, in response to spending endless hours scarcely moving in a traffic queue - just a verge, with a list of the plants I identified on the back of the monotype. 

I put it out at the Manchester Artists Book Fair.  People liked it, which was, of course, a very acceptable state of affairs.  It sold, and a couple of people asked if I would make something similar for them.  In my innocence I thought, well why not?  It wasn't in the spirit of a unique book, I suppose, but I'd enjoyed making the first one.  Whereupon I discovered that, while making a single book with no purpose seemed a simple undertaking, making more of them, with people in mind and some kind of a deadline (which I spectacularly failed to meet), was somehow infinitely more difficult.  I would do a monotype.  I wouldn't like it.  I would do another, think I liked it, then find it wasn't so very different to the one I didn't like.  Eventually I ended up with half a dozen, each based on somewhere, sometime.  Later still, they acquired lists, covers, and now, finally they are finished.  I'm moderately happy with them but they took much much longer than I ever would have dreamed.  I won't say never again, but in any similar future situation, I'll think very hard before I say anything at all. They're on the 2015 Books page (accessed from Book arts). 
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    Hi there

    I make prints and book arts, though nowhere near as often as I'd like - no good reason, just an inability to get on with things.  I occasionally go on about landscape (with which I am mildly obsessed) and various of its elements, and I like to pass comment on exhibitions I visit.

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