noosa and 4 words 4 paper

I missed out on getting into the Noosa Show this year. This was my contribution, the theme was Back to Basics and My take on that theme was to go back to a basic nursery rhyme as my theme but I needed to have some text. I called the book 'Foran 20' for 4 and 20 blackbirds. I made a pie and photographed it for the basis of the book.


My latest contribution for 4 words 4 Paper is a gatefold book of two sections, the cover was a sample piece to be framed but I chose two others in its place.

Some Success, IAPMA and Aussie Plant Book

I found out the other day that my book Sand Stories was acquired by Southern Cross Uni. I got it done just in time since I am without a printer at the moment. My lovely Pixma has died, I'm hoping only temporarily. I need to get it to a repairer since we've tried all the obvious things and I'd just bought a full set of ink cartridges!

On Wednesday Marianne and I went down to the Australian Botanic Gardens in Cranbourne. That was in preparation for a workshop I am running in March next year. The plan is to collect at least twelve different native plant fibres and make paper from them then have participants bind them into a book interleaved with paper made from eucalyptus and cotton which will be printed with information about the plant and about the paper and how it was made. The books will feature a piece of Australian timber in the binding. We have a team of people making the paper, I'll be doing acacia bark, tree fern, bluegum leaves and one other.

Anyway the gardens were great, here are a few pictures of the water feature including some wonderful patterns made by the foam.

The wattle was absolutely gorgeous and these grass trees looked great.

And the wonderful sand garden!

I sent off my forms yesterday for the IAPMA Congress in Burnie and have now started working on a piece for the Exhibition Old Land, New Paper. Here are some of the parts on my old trusty trampoline. It's not too hard to see where the inspiration came from although i must admit I only think that now and I need some olive green!

Chickens

Papermoon

The Papermakers of Victoria exhibition 'It's Only a Paper Moon' is almost over, it has gone really well with lots of visitors and a few sales. I got a notice in our local paper and the Whitehorse one too, I hope people weren't offended that the articles were all about me. I did give others the opportunity to send their own press releases.
Here are some gallery shots:- Two of my pieces are in the background here.

Two views of the Yabbers piece. Another of my pieces is in the background of the back of the yabbers banner.

My Time and Tide piece is in the front of this cabinet.

Ladders to Fire 2008


I'm working on paper for a project I intend to submit for 'Shared Journeys', next year's PoV exhibition and have just finished making the paper from the hemp for the Higher Ground Gathering in Kuranda. The raw hemp was not breaking up in my beater was just getting very stringy so I took it to Box Hill and put it through the Valley beater and it came out almost overbeaten. The first picture shows a stack of the raw hemp paper with some paper made from hemp fabric and the second picture has the light shining through the paper.


I've also popped in a picture of Daughter and dog, just for fun.

New Books

Sorry it has been so long between posts, I guess I've been too busy with this and that. I've nearly finished putting together the Women's Art Register Bulletin and should be working on the IAPMA newsletter at the moment. Instead I am writing this and playing scrabulous, GRRR.

I have made a couple of books lately and intend making another one for the Noosa show, the theme is Back to Basics and at first I wasn't going to enter but now I have decided on a book similar to the one I've made for the Southern Cross Uni book show. The book is called 'Sand Stories' and is based on a simple star book with a few extra folds. On our recent holiday I took lots of photos of the bubbles in the sand made by a small crab Scopimera inflata. I felt that they could be interpreted as text. Here are some pictures of the completed book.




The next book I'm going to make will be the same format but will feature a picture of this apple pie I made for the purpose of the book, What we do for art eh!

My copy of 500 Handmade Books arrived yesterday, what a treat. I have flipped through it and then studied about half, I was very pleased to see that many of the books featured had some handmade paper. Last week I received my copy of Beater Finesse for the Paper Artist put together by Catherine Nash, what a great resource that is going to be. My Handpapermaking magazine also arrived in the last week and I'm in that too, what a week!
We had Yabbers last week too and here are the popup postcards that were sent. Mine is the one made from magazine on the left , it was my mockup for sand stories and I hadn't sent it through the mail but the one I sent didn't arrive so we included it in the exchange.