sketchbooks

Montage of detalls of shadow tracings wuth Lydia's hand for scale, bookbinding in progress and test brick paintings with terra cotta slip
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Binding sketchbooks, chasing shadows and painting with clay: Tower Gallery artist residency week 2

13th July, 2026 by

Big drawings. How to prepare? The tiny sketchbooks I carry, which I bind from offcuts and scrap are – well – tiny. So, my Tower Gallery residency project being about the building, bringing my love of appropriate materials from my design life I’ve made one big sketchbook from lining paper, … Read More

A pile of freshly bound sketchbooks with a chrome paperweight on top
Design Life | Knowledge and skills

A blank sheet of paper

30th December, 2024 by

Binding sketchbooks. It’s very Zen. It’s useful (I get through sketchbooks at a rate that’s been described as voracious). And I love a blank sheet of paper. But is it a new leaf?  Well, yes and no. I make my sketchbooks from offcuts, dummies and surplus swatches and materials. And … Read More