The Tempest revisited

Here are some new promotional photos of an etched concertina book I made back in 2011.  This was a difficult piece of work to photograph, because it's such a wide book!

The book is in an edition of twenty and is a wordless, panoramic etching of The Tempest.

Glasgow International Artists' Bookfair 2012

Thank you to everyone who came to last weekend's Glasgow International Artists' Bookfair!

It was a tiring but worthwhile two days. There was some fantastic and beautiful work on sale - see GIAB 2012 for images and information on all the participants.

The reaction to the new books (The Tempest) was a nice surprise - thank you to everyone who bought one.

Above: digitally printed copies of The Tempest

New etched book - The Tempest

Last week I finally finished this project... some photos and scans are below:

Some of the tiny scenes from the book:

Minack III

The plate has been finished! Below are some photos of a dummy version of the book and some details from the print...

Minack II

Enter Mariners wet...

Above and below are a little preview of some new work I'm doing for an etched book. Next week aquatints will be made from the plate. And then the bookmaking begins...

Minack

Over the next couple of months, I’ll be working on a new project set at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall.

Built in to the cliffs just outside of the Cornish village of Porthcurno, the Minack Theatre was created in the 1930s by Rowena Cade to stage her own theatrical productions. The site is as unusual as it is beautiful, with a stage built above cliffs, and hundreds of carved stone seats for its audience. What attracted me most to the site was the way that features of the theatre blended in to the granite cliffs. A stone archway, inscribed with celtic carvings, may lead on to a stair-case built in to the stone cliffs, for example.

Below are some quick sketches I made of the theatre when I visited last week. More work to follow later...