Design Bindings for exhibition, competition and commission
These books are an opportunity to interpret a text and respond in my own way, often taking weeks of planning, experimenting and work before the book is ready to be out in the world
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Published by the Folio Society
Bound in 2018
Winner of Set Book Second Prize in the Designer Bookbinders Competition
Hand dyed fair goatskin
Hand dyed, printed and tooled onlays
Gradient edge decoration
Leather jointed hand painted endpapers
Hand dyed silk endbands
Graphic Sayings by David Kindersley
Published by Skelton Press
Bound in 2018
Exhibited at the National Library of Scotland - ‘25 years of the Soutar Competition’
Bradel Structure
Fair goatskin, tooled blind and airbrushed
Hand dyed leather jointed endpapers
Hand painted and tooled paper doublures
Finished in genuine gold
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
First edition
Bound in 2020
Quarter bound in full leather
Hand dyed fair goatskin and Pentland goat
Hand dyed inlays
Gold tooling with custom made tool
Hand dyed leather endbands
Cloth jointed endpaper with paper doublure
The Long Journey - collected poems of Robert Louis Stevenson
Published and printed by Incline Press
Bound in 2019
Bradel structure
Craquellure dyed spine
Sidings of hand dyed leather and painted watercolour paper
Hand dyed and tooled leather jointed endpaper
Paper doublure
Hand dyed leather endbands
Drum leaf binding
Cyanotype printed Kraft pages, foil blocked
Inlays of kid skin, handmade paper, cyanotype prints
‘Becoming’ artists book
Bound in 2020