Shooting the Breeze

An exhibition of landscape paintings by Sue Ifould and handmade books by Gaynor Williams.
Sue works by drawing or painting in the landscape, aiming to capture the energy and essence of the place and often returning to explore different lights and seasons. She believes that as she becomes more familiar with a place her response deepens.
Gaynor is a traditionally-trained book conservator who as well as repairing books rejoices in the freedom of making books from scratch as opposed to working within the constraints of existing structures. She has made a collection of journals, some colossal in proportions and some palm-of-the-hand size, bound in covers fashioned from either whole local sheepskins or handmade sheep fleece felt. The processes of sewing the text blocks are traditional, but these covers bear little resemblance to books that many will have encountered before. They are artworks in their own right.

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