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Plant Hunters – Explorers & Adventurers •info
Since the 16C botanists have travelled to the wildest and most remote parts of the world in search of new species of trees, plants, bulbs and seeds. Early plant hunters were mostly sponsored by wealthy patrons in search of unusual and exotic species to enhance their estates, but as method of propagation gradually improved nurseries began to send out their own expeditions to find new exotics to grow and sell.
These intrepid explorers and adventurers enduring the most punishing conditions in their quest for the perfect specimen. Journeys at sea took many months and they suffered from extreme temperatures, malaria, fevers and injuries while exploring unknown territories. Despite many misadventures these brave plant hunters never failed to send home their remarkable discoveries.
30 pages printed on 250gsm somerset satin
hard bound with digitally printed paper cover
h 30 cm x 22 cm
£85
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Hand-Bound Artist-Designer Books
As a book designer and maker I put images together collected from many sources to create pages of digital collage. These are stitched together and hand bound into covers which are screen or digitally printed to make the completed book.
My interests lie in the physical and natural sciences, both historical and contemporary. I am also fascinated by explorers and adventurers who have added to our knowledge of science and related subjects.
My more recent books are about botanical subjects; Plant Hunters was inspired by early explorers who travelled the world in search of new plant species. My current project, not yet complete, is about the trees and plants threatened by climate change and other factors.
all books are made in limited editions (maximum 10) digitally printed, stitched and hand-bound with screen-printed or digitally printed covers.
Plant Hunters – Explorers & Adventurers
Weaving Numbers
Arabic Science East to West
William Herschel Astronomer and Musician
The Discovery of Electricity
Srinivasa Ramanujan Mathematician
The Ten Most Abundant Elements in the Universe
Cards of Discovery
Equations
Beyond Our Planet Annual for Boys
Star Coordinates
Constants
Where Could I Live?
Helen Storey: Life on the Outskirts (Commission)
Books in collections of: British Library Contemporary Collection; The Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, Goldsmiths, University of London; Kingston University, London; Stony Brook University, New York; Helen Storey Foundation; National Art Library, London, and Private collections in the US and the UK.
Contact
I have been designing and making books for over ten years, and have exhibited my work at the Small Publishers Book Fair, London; London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel; BABE Arnolfini, Bristol, Oxford Fine Press Book Fair, and in Halifax, Leeds and Manchester. Commissions include a limited edition of Helen Storey: Life on the Outskirts for Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, Vietnam Carole Hodgson. The books Equations and Constants were recently shown as part of a joint exhibition The Art of Science: Selections from the Collection, at the Simons Centre for Geometry & Physics, Stony Brook University, New York. Closed December 2019. http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/31524