Artist's book No.2 Hedge

Climate change and our slowness to act provided inspiration for this book.

COVID 19, however, is taking all our attention now and the resulting clean air and water are already apparent in many parts of the world.

Handmade Book with Coptic Binding

Last October we moved from Feilding to Palmerston North.  In the process of sorting and packing, I was looking through the photographic images that I had made over a decade ago when we were living out near Colyton, using photo paper, chemicals, sunlight and plants from our garden, and a series of solar plate prints that had I made for a book at about the same time but never completed. There were also some small paintings on paper using oil and cold wax medium, leftovers from a project more recent project.  I decided that I would use this material for my next project and pick up with the book idea again.  By December 1 had my new workspace ready, I had lots of ideas noted down in my workbook, and I had time to commit to the project.  More than two months later my first book (above) is completed.