Part 4 of Book Patrol’s salute to the Guild of Book Workers’ 100th Anniversary Exhibit goes underwater.
From the Retrospective Exhibit:
Marblefish by Iris Nevins.
Marblefish. 28 x 23 centimeters, 1989. Traditional watercolor marbling, on a carragheenan bath; design completed in the ancient manner of using stencils and resists to create an image by repeatedly dipping and drying; pen and ink were used later to outline the details.
From the Contemporary Juried Exhibit:
Priscilla Spitler’s spectacular binding for The Conversant Sea.
The Conversant Sea 32 x 20 x 2 centimeters, 2006. One of a Kind. Boards binding, covered in green goat skin and decorated with back pared and traditional leather onlays, inlaid leather lines, and pochoir acrylic paint. Gold and colored foil tooling and lettering. Text designed, illustrated and printed on an ink jet printer by the binder. Paste paper toned text and endpapers, with stenciled and collage illustration by both Spitler and Hocks. Inspired by poems of the sea written by the late book artist Paula Hocks, who often collaborated with the binder.