Category: Artists’ Books

Lynda’s artist books come in all shapes and sizes. They are used to better evoke an aspect of a place or an idea than in a print or painting. They can be one-offs or multiples. The structure reflects the subject matter. As with her paintings, they can have found objects incorporated or used as the container. Collage and perforation also feature.

Preparations for a busy summer

I’m very busy preparing work for Printmakers of Scotland annual Festival of Printmaking at University of Stirling from 15 to 17 August and bound : unbound’s exhibition ‘On the Same Page’ at Upright Gallery Edinburgh 6-26 September.

I’ve also signed up to two workshops, one at Paintbox Art School and the other with Damian Callan. Both of these centred round the harbours at Cockenzie and Port Seton in East Lothian.
This week I’m drawing for a few hours at Redhall Walled Garden in Edinburgh.
So all go!

Reasons to be Cheerful

The Joy of Edinburgh

This artist book is being shown in the exhibition Reasons to be Cheerful at Upright Gallery In Edinburgh until 20 December 2024

Update: it was purchased by the National Library of Scotland for their collection.

Art, Science and Creativity

My artist book Power Switch is being shown as part of this exhibition at Liverpool Central Library- details in poster below.
The book takes imagery from a disused power station now made into a gallery where the old equipment is now the art.

Power Switch artist book, 8 pages of rubber stamping on Somerset Satin white paper. £50

Nature Works

I have four artists books in this exhibition at Upright Gallery in Edinburgh.

Against the background of climate change and COP26 in Glasgow over 32 artist book makers have submitted works reflecting their own concerns for the environment. uprightgallery.com for more information and opening times.

Empty Streets

A book of lino cut prints and rubber stamping of words that have become part of our everyday vocabulary.

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Empty Streets. Artist book, Lino print and rubber stamping on Somerset Satin white paper. Six pages plus front and back cover. £40
Empty Streets. Artist book, Lino print and rubber stamping on Somerset Satin white paper. Six pages plus front and back cover. £40

High Rise – a new artist book

High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30

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High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30
High Rise artist book, rubber stamping, monoprint and typing 10cm high x 18cm long closed £30

Inspired by High Rise by J G Ballard (1975), this book contains rubber stamping and monoprints of imaginary brutalist high rise buildings. The typed text is key words taken from the book, but breaks down and eventually collapses as does the life of the inhabitants of the fictional high rise.

Sea Fever

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Sea Fever 8x9x1cm closed, 8x115cm fully open, rubber stamping on paper, edition of 2. £40
Sea Fever 8x9x1cm closed, 8x115cm fully open, rubber stamping on paper, edition of 2. £40

During the lockdown of 2020, one of the things I missed the most was being able to be at the seaside. This poem by John Masefield is an appropriate title and theme for a book expressing my longing for the sea.

Tuscan Duomos

Yearly visits to Italy provide source material for artist books. Sketches made on site are developed into books or prints in the studio.

Pisa artist book
Pisa artist book pink bookcloth on greyboard covers 4 pages of monoprint and type £50
Pisa artist book
Pisa artist book pink bookcloth on greyboard covers 4 pages of monoprint and type £50

Also available: Lucca and Pistoia

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Night Shingle

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Dungeness in Kent makes a frequent appearance in Lynda’s work. Here a book of collage and monotypes evokes the scattered nature of the houses and the way they are lit up at night by the sweep of the lighthouse beam and by the glow from the nuclear power station.

Night Shingle artist book - cover
Night Shingle artist book 6 monoprint and collage pages plus painted and collage cover boards 13x19cm closed £50
Night Shingle artist book
Night Shingle artist book 6 monoprint and collage pages plus painted and collage cover boards 13x19cm closed £50

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