Clamshell box containing a blank book
2019 / 2020
Cardboard, silkscreen prints and Japanese paper
W:4 5/16"xH:6 1/4"xD:1 1/2" (11.5x16x3.75cm)

Box holds a blank book created with silkscreened prints, hard covers front/back, coptic stitch with waxed cotton thread. Blank pages in folios are Revere printing papers.

Blank book
2020
Silkscreened prints, hard covers front/back, coptic stitch with waxed cotton thread. Blank pages in folios are Revere printing papers.
5 1/4"x4 1/4"x3/4" (13.5x11x2cm)
Mountain Scapes of Iceland –– handmade book
2020
Monotype prints
11.5"x13" – 40 pages (book closed)

This video shows a few spreads from a handmade book created in March 2020.


Using a variety of Japanese paper I printed using monotype printing method and Akua inks. The next step was to immerse the prints in hot bees wax. The printed paper becomes transparent once waxed and is quite strong. Using cotton thread I stitched some of the pages, emphasizing the lines and forms and used different sizes of needles to poke holes, also to emphsize forms and color. In some of the pages, I have cut slivers of the paper to allow a view to the page underneath.


The book measures 11.5"x13" and has 40 pages bound by Japanese stab binding. The pages are all different sizes in order to enhance the visual travel through the Mountain Scapes.

Music is improvised on guitar by Arch McInnes.

Mountain Scapes of Iceland –– spread from handmade book
2020
Monotype print
Print – Poke – Stitch packaged cover shown
2018
Monotype on Kitikata paper, waxed
3.5x3" 9x7.5cm 16 pages
Print – Poke – Stitch wrap shown
2018
Monotype on Kitikata paper, waxed
3.5x3" 9x7.5cm
Print – Poke – Stitch
2018
Monotype on Kitikata paper, waxed
3.5x3" 9x7.5cm
Print – Poke – Stitch
2017
Monotype on Kitikata paper, waxed
3.5x3" 9x7.5cm
Printed / Waxed / Stitched / Poked – cover
2018
Monotype on Kitikata and pattern paper, waxed
9x8.5" 23x21cm / pages vary in size within
Printed / Waxed / Stitched / Poked – detail binding
2018
Monotype on Kitikata and pattern paper, waxed
9x8.5" 23x21cm
Printed / Waxed / Stitched / Poked
2018
Monotype on Kitikata and pattern paper, waxed
9x8.5" 23x21cm
Printed / Waxed / Stitched / Poked
2018
Monotype on Kitikata and pattern paper, waxed
9x8.5" 23x21cm
Various handmade books
2017
Paper
Various
From Here to There
2017
Monotype print paper
4.5x3.25" / 12x8cm / 28 pages
Drum Leaf binding
From Here to There
2017
Monotype print on paper
4.5x3.25" / 12x8cm
From Here to There
2017
Monotype print on paper
4.5x3.25" / 12x8cm
Going WIth the Flow
2017
Monotype print on paper
4.5x4.5" 11.5x11.5cm