As part of the Artist Book Group I am showing handmade books and drawings at our exhibition at McNaughtan's Bookshop (Haddington Place, top of Leith Walk by Gayfield Square), starting on Tues 22nd November till Saturday 3rd December. There will be a range of different book structures, from concertinas to round books to magic money books...also painting, prints and photography. There are eight of us in the group, all from a range of disciplines, and we all make artist books alongside other work.
I'm also running a workshop on Sat 3rd December from 1130-1230pm at the bookshop, so you can learn how to make a japanese binding and a round flower book structure. Only £5 including all materials, book via email: jennifer.rose.bruce@gmail.com.
The recent work I've been doing follows on from my ideas about energy, spirituality and relationships. In one book I drew a mandala every day representing my thoughts and feelings, in layers and I experimented with making those things that are pretty much invisible into marks on the page. Whether or not they mean the same thing to me as they do to another doesn't necessarily matter. What do you think? And despite the difficult nature of some of the emotions I think the mandalas are quite beautiful.
I'm also making a drawing for Concert For Trees, at the Usher Hall on 26th November. This is to tie in with the UN Year of Forests 2011, celebrating all that forests mean to us, and looking at sustainability, forest management and conservation. There will be music, dance and poetry alongside a little art - my drawing along with prints by another artist will be on display as you go in. The Conan Doyle Quartet, made from a sycamore tree in Arthur Conan Doyle's childhood garden, will be premiering.
My drawing will be on BFK Rives paper, which is gorgeous and made from 100% cotton rag in France, so no trees were sacrificed. I'm considering the relationship between us and trees, our interdependence (they give out oxygen for us to breathe, and we give out carbon dioxide for them to breathe) and our emotional and spiritual connection. I'm considering tree and human mandalas interlaced.
I'm also running a workshop on Sat 3rd December from 1130-1230pm at the bookshop, so you can learn how to make a japanese binding and a round flower book structure. Only £5 including all materials, book via email: jennifer.rose.bruce@gmail.com.
The recent work I've been doing follows on from my ideas about energy, spirituality and relationships. In one book I drew a mandala every day representing my thoughts and feelings, in layers and I experimented with making those things that are pretty much invisible into marks on the page. Whether or not they mean the same thing to me as they do to another doesn't necessarily matter. What do you think? And despite the difficult nature of some of the emotions I think the mandalas are quite beautiful.
I'm also making a drawing for Concert For Trees, at the Usher Hall on 26th November. This is to tie in with the UN Year of Forests 2011, celebrating all that forests mean to us, and looking at sustainability, forest management and conservation. There will be music, dance and poetry alongside a little art - my drawing along with prints by another artist will be on display as you go in. The Conan Doyle Quartet, made from a sycamore tree in Arthur Conan Doyle's childhood garden, will be premiering.
My drawing will be on BFK Rives paper, which is gorgeous and made from 100% cotton rag in France, so no trees were sacrificed. I'm considering the relationship between us and trees, our interdependence (they give out oxygen for us to breathe, and we give out carbon dioxide for them to breathe) and our emotional and spiritual connection. I'm considering tree and human mandalas interlaced.
