Karen Ruane · 11:53 28 May 2017
Stitched paper, embroidered scraps of cloth, hanging tags, sequins, pages, papers....so many surfaces and textures, lots of layering, ripping, rearranging. The past week in class, in Art… Read More
Artist Book Class Blog Posts
Karen Ruane · 12:00 06 Jun 2017
New stitching on paper to add to old stitching on paper to create a new page in a new artist book, a much bigger artist book. I bought this A3 sketchbook in order to mount paper based s… Read More
Karen Ruane · 11:40 15 Jun 2017
My latest finished artist book.....there is a very short video here, a silent movie of me turning pages. The early stages of the next ''artist book'' are happening already… Read More
Karen Ruane · 11:56 06 Aug 2016
Piles of little scraps, embroidery offcuts, samples, all stored carefully and neatly, kept safe on a shelf. Thing is you can't really ''see'' them, can't be inspired by them as they are… Read More
Karen Ruane · 11:51 01 May 2017
This is what I have been up to in class, in ''artist book'' class. Paper has been stitched to paper, paper has been stitched to cloth, stitching beads and gimp and knots has been going on… Read More
Gurney Journey · 15:16 12 Jan 2018
A young woman is startled by a sound while raiding a jewelry box.The artist is Edwin Georgi (1896-1964), the subject of the latest monograph on an American illustrator by The Illustrated Pre… Read More
Love, Your Artsy Gir… · 04:32 27 Dec 2017
The new year is fast approaching (again) but never before has it been riddled with such uncertainty and anxiety, at least in my lifetime, not counting the infamous 9-11.We are supposed to re… Read More