LCBA Press & Valentines Workshop

The London Center for Book Arts has had a lot of wonderful press of late, and here in El Pais 4 of my  publications were featured to accompany the article. Do visit the new center, it promises to be awe inspiring. x



Valentine's Workshop: Create Victorian Inspired Cards at LCBA
Saturday workshop, 11am-5pm
9 February 2013
For this Valentine's Day, spend an afternoon at the London Centre for Book Arts and create a one-of-a-kind, hand-made concept card inspired by embellished, pop-up, and sculptural odes to Love from the Victorian era.Learn Simple folding, collage and printing techniques, and take home the finished project in your own, hand-made bespoke envelope.All materials included, but additional materials are encouraged - to make your projects truly unique.




News for you in 2013


New Courses have been announced at Hot Bed Press to begin the year creatively.
I will be running three courses this term including 'Clamshell Presentation Boxes', 'Typewriter Art' and 'Book making for Artists Level 1', so have a peek over here at what's coming up.



The Lovely Simon Goode at the groundbreaking London Center for Book Arts (LCBA) was featured in the Guardian yesterday, along with an image of my book Roadkill. I have been asked to deliver an exciting new workshop in early February at the center, with details soon to follow.


I also have a couple of outings planned for BABL in the coming months, so do keep your eyes peeled for that beautiful beast of a van, Dolores, meandering through the countryside. 




Typewriter achievements




Achievements from the super and satisfying workshop in Typewriter Art a few weeks ago, and running again due to popular demand early next year. Contact  HBP to reserve your place as a Christmas Pressie to yourself!

Typewriter Art
Tutor: Lucy May Schofield
Tuesday evenings 19th & 26th February

An intensive two evening workshop in the art of typewriters/typewriter art. A rare opportunity to discover and experiment with at least 8 different models of typewriters to create text as image. Be inspired by examples of artists pushing the medium of the typewriter in their artworks along with historical examples of calligrams and concrete poetry.  You will become addicted to the potential of this wondrous medium and its instant print gratification.
cost £55 (£45*)


Highland Air





A late November whirlwind week once again teaching on the wondrous Portfolio Course at Bridge House Art in Ullapool. The moment the train chugs north of Edinburgh my heart swells with a feeling of utter warmth. Perhaps my ancestors were Scottish, I can't explain the love I feel for this part of the world. It was a week of long train journey love, the warmest hospitality at Old Moss Road, observing how to cable knit post Shetland G&T & a vat of local mussels, Full Luminous Moon gazing, Talent galore students for 3 full days of book making, hazy sleeper cabin to a frosty station home. Lovely & Lucky.

Angel of Guidance





My feet are numb, despite being encased in seal skin boots, my shoulders tense, my nose a cold tear drop. I can't warm my heart either, perhaps that's at the core. I've made a wreath, decorated the tree, watched a Christmas classic, made cards, eaten clementines, planned a party, but still the festivities don't live with me. Where is Cary Grant, angel of guidance, to scoop me up and take me skating, make a choir sing and let me see what's under my nose?


Typewriter Mourning

In the week of the last-ever typewriter built in the UK rolling off the production lines in North Wales, it's high time to dust down your keys and join me for two winter evenings limbering up your index fingers to create typewriter works of art, to be hung in celebration and memory of this fine piece of engineering.  






TYPEWRITER ART

2 Evenings Course
Starting: Tuesday 4th December 2012
Ending: Tuesday 11th December 2012
From: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Spaces available

A intensive 2 evening workshop in the art of typewriters/typewriter art. This is a rare opportunity to experiment with 4 different typewriters for creating text as image, image as text. With inspired examples of artists pushing the medium of the typewriter forwards you will become addicted to the potential and possibilities of the instant print gratification of typewriting.
Book it! Only 3 places left...Typewriter tip tip tip...

Printmaking & Bookmaking collaborative workshop







A few weeks ago I collaborated with Sarah Jane Lawton of Sharing the Making to design and deliver a collaborative Innovation workshop for the Fred Longworth's 'Nurture Group'. The project named 'The advantage of being me' for year 8 & 9 students, encouraged a discussion on future aims, hopes and dreams. In celebration of themselves the students learnt and developed new skills in creating prints and books. We had such positive sessions with each student fully engaged and growing in confidence throughout the day. We used a model of mentorship to ensure that everyone was given ample attention, understood what was being asked of them but were also challenged by each task. The feedback was wonderful! 
I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to work with the Nurture Group, and with Sarah. Her vision and positivity are infectious.

November comings & goings










I've been collecting brittle spider carcasses, looking closely, enjoying eating off Poole Pottery & visiting my family. Not to mention knitting presents, taking days off to embark on long autumnal walks, investing in plenty of human contact. I find when the nights draw in and the air turns cool it's more vital than ever to touch other people and let little come between embracing.

All NEW *Text & Image Course - This Weekend!


TEXT & IMAGE

Weekend Course
Starting: Saturday 10th November 2012
Ending: Sunday 11th November 2012
From: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Experience a 2 day workshop of 4 micro projects delivered on the mornings and afternoons of each day. You will be exploring and experimenting with the use of text and image to inspire new visual narratives. Using found text to create poems, your own images as muse for text rich works, 2 word stories to create a series of pictures, limitations of media to test and inspire new image making possibilities, and the poetics of found objects to create new ways of storytelling that will inform the way you go on to make your own publications. Using typewriters, lettraset and collage, you will come away from HBP with the confidence and enthusiasm to translate and develop your ideas into creative book works. 


If you would like to book onto the course, there are a few spaces left, so please get in touch with Hot Bed Press here. Alternatively, please call the studio on 0161 743 3111.
* I will also be running this same course at the newly opened London Center for Book Arts on November 24th & 25th 2012. Please visit here for bookings! 

A new edition - Roadkill II









A  new edition. Roadkill II (victims of the modern world).
I have been quietly painting forlorn creatures for the past few months. There are three that made it into books, a frog, a squirrel, a pigeon. Each are inkjet prints on Somerset Satin paper, bound in grey board with silver foil blocking. They will soon be living outside of my studio and residing in Paper Gallery. The Center for Fine Print Research in Bristol have given each one a home too, thank you Sarah B.

*I am in love with my new peaceful space overlooking blissful Autumnal trees which continue to turn, shed and delight each day I put brush to paper. 

Oh it's my 300th post today! so thanks for tuning in.

THIS SUNDAY - Surgery for books


This Sunday indulge in a day of creative book discussion and making at Hot Bed Press supported by one-to-one book tutorials and group surgeries. Over the day we will talk through ideas and discuss your own publications and artist's books that may have outstanding issues that need honing or resolving. We will use the day as a testing ground for experimentation and feedback. As a group we will share ideas and experience to help one another move forward with our books.  Bring with you your own sketches, mock ups, samples and ideas for book works you are working on and any specialist tools of your own. A relaxed day of making, discussing, resolving and tea drinking. Book here

Circles lately





Breakfast bowls and teapots and making plates at pottery monday and blueberry weekend cultural planning and mouldy figs neglected kitchen. 

Pop up Artist's Book Surgery



Pop up Artist's Book Surgery
Hot Bed Press, Salford.
1 Day Course
Sunday 21st October 2012
From: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
About the course: 
Following hot on the tails of The Manchester Artist’s Book Fair, enjoy a day of bookmaking in Hot Bed Press supported by one-to-one book tutorials/surgeries. Use it as a testing ground to discuss or help resolve any editing/ structural / printing/presenting issues. As a group go on to discuss outstanding issues. Test ideas and gain advice on how to make, exhibit, show, sell or promote your artist publication.
Cost: £55.00 / £45.00 members
Book at Hot Bed Press