chris ruston
  • About
  • News
  • Gallery
  • Art Works
    • The Ark >
      • Adrift
    • The Great Gathering
    • Blickling Hall
    • Salts - LighthouseKeeping
    • The Sea
    • World of Ice
    • Lost Voices - Whaling
    • Pages from a Frozen Sea
    • Capturing the Moment.
    • Holuhraun 2014 -2015
    • Silent Spring Revisited
    • Archived Pages >
      • Ocean Blue
      • Fire - The True Egde of Creation.
      • Before The Beginning.
      • Al Mutanabbi Street Project
  • Instagram
  • Contact
  • Links

The Society of Bookbinders Book Arts Day - Sketchbooks.

4/3/2019

0 Comments

 
I have been sorting and selecting work to take to the Society of Bookbinders Book Arts day which is on Saturday 6th April. The event includes guest speaker David Jury as well as a variety of book artists  displaying their work.

I will be taking a number of works produced over the past several years, as well as showing some sketchbooks. I wonder if this is the right description for them as I often use them to record background information to the particular 'theme' I may be working with. They are more like journals combining drawings, quotes, articles, referances, and all manner of information!
Picture
I prefer to use handmade sketchbooks or books bought from fellow book artists. The selection above were made by Lola Swain. I couldn't resist her beautiful hand marbled papers.  I have to say  it is a joy having such beautiful books to work in. A peak inside the blue one on the left reveals drawings which formed part of the research that led to the 'The Great Gathering" 
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
The red book in the middle is nearly complete. It records information relating to what I consider might form an "an ark for our time". The work was initially inspired from an old drawing of my son's and my interest in the global seed banks ( Svarlbard and Wakehurst).  The sketchbook incorporates an ancient flood story, and thoughts about how this continues resonate in the present age (ie rising sea levels and climate change). Having read several articles about declining crop diversity, I decided to use seeds as my focal point. 
Picture
Picture
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Author

    Welcome.
    ​Here you will find a gathering of thoughts, notes, and images which inform my work.  A "virtual sketchbook" of projects and ideas as they evolve.

    Picture
    Picture

    Archives

    November 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    August 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    October 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    September 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    August 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    November 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012

    Picture

    Categories
    Artist books Art, drawing, inks mark making, paper 
    photography,  
    Ice, glaciers, Arctic
    environment, climate change,
    sea, oceans,
    history, evolution, fossils
    nature, landscape, natural world Suminagashi 

    All
    Acrtic
    Artist
    Blue
    Bookarts
    Creativity
    Fire
    Ice
    Painting
    Volcano

    Picture

    RSS Feed

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner

  • About
  • News
  • Gallery
  • Art Works
    • The Ark >
      • Adrift
    • The Great Gathering
    • Blickling Hall
    • Salts - LighthouseKeeping
    • The Sea
    • World of Ice
    • Lost Voices - Whaling
    • Pages from a Frozen Sea
    • Capturing the Moment.
    • Holuhraun 2014 -2015
    • Silent Spring Revisited
    • Archived Pages >
      • Ocean Blue
      • Fire - The True Egde of Creation.
      • Before The Beginning.
      • Al Mutanabbi Street Project
  • Instagram
  • Contact
  • Links