DB Fellows

Shakespeare’s Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint
By William Shakespeare. Folio Society 1989
Illustrators – Simon Brett, Peter Reddick, Jane Lydbury, Harry Brockway, Peter Forster, George Tate & Michael Renton
215 x 155 mm. Bound 2005
Suede, embroidery threads, glass beads, oak veneer

Studied at the University of Brighton gaining a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design and Illustration in 1984, and an MA in Sequential Design in 1991. Senior Lecturer (part-time) in Illustration and Book Arts since 1987 at the University of Brighton. Elected onto the Crafts Council Selected Index in 1986. Elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 1989, President from 1996-98.

Work in many public collections such as The British Library, The National Poetry Library, The John Rylands Library and Winchester Cathedral (UK), The Library of Congress (USA), The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Holland) and the Bibliotheca Wittockiana, (Belgium), as well as private collections in the UK and abroad.

"Bookbinding provides a constant source of ideas and challenges for me. I am continually developing and simplifying the structures I use to maximise the time I spend on the creative element of my work, and to enable me to work with materials such as wood and metal or techniques such as embroidery. My ideas always stem from the text, but I find I can have a variety of different responses dependant on the book itself. Sometimes an interpretive angle is called for, at other times a more personal approach seems appropriate. The concept should also be sympathetic to the design and illustrations of the text, the challenge being to combine a collection of ideas and materials into a visually complete object."

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