Down your Street - Old Amersham

 My latest silk screen accomplishment, 'Down your Street - Old Amersham'.  I gave myself and Charlie (the lovely girl I silkscreen with) the mammoth task of printing these books of Old Amersham in 3 colours and to do 40 copies.  Our newly awakened silk screen skills couldn't take it, and unfortunately quite a few came out rather smudgy looking.  This I know is part of the fun when printing with silk screen, however, it was a bit much even for me!  I think that they were successful as far as they could be, but from now on I will be sticking to 2 colour prints when using our little home studio print room.

This is the second book I've done of this format, and I love it!  It's great because you print onto one flat piece of lovely paper and then construct the book afterwards.  This is a fold I learnt from the wonderful Rachel Hazell of 'Hazell Designs books' when myself and my sisters did a Sewn Structures course with her in Edinburgh.  You can read about that here.  Be sure to keep an eye out for future books in the same/similar format of other cities and places.  If you have somewhere to recommend, ket me know!  And if you would like me to tell you about it when I produce new books, then please sign up for my newsletter.  (You can find the link in the right hand panel on the blog).

Thank you for reading,

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The 6th Manchester Artists Book Fair with Hot Bed Press

A great day!  Saturday 22nd October, 11am - 6pm.  What an early start we had to get to Manchester for 11am, but it was worth it.  Everyone was really lovely, the space was great and I had lots of customers! I got some great feedback and suggestions of places to go to illustrate, which is really nice.

Do you have a city/town/village you'd like to see me illustrate?

I pulled out my beautiful big 'Buildings' book to give my table some height, more than anything else, and it was admired from afar and up close - people often worry about picking up such a book, but it is a book at the end of the day...

It looks like the '(Delft) Blue' book is going to be reprinted - hurrah!  Due to a high demand for it in London and Manchester.  If you missed out, and would like to know when I've completed the second edition, please email me your details and then I can keep you in on the loop.

Garden Illustration

Over the course of the summer I've taken on a few commissions to do Illustrations of gardens.  Maybe you know someone who is very proud of their garden, fond of it, enjoys spending a lot of time there?  Or maybe you threw a great party and want to thank everyone for making it a special day!  These lovely gardens are a few that I have had the pleasure of illustrating.  They have made it onto gift sets of greeting cards as well as being gifted as framed illustrations.

I can work from photographs and visit the garden in question personally (I've been known to travel quite a distance for a good illustration opportunity).  However, if it's a secret, i will work from snap shots that you can provide on the garden's behalf.  These gardens obviously show off their summer colours, this doesn't limit your garden at all, what ever may be your preferred season - Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter - I will illustrate it at it's best.

It's quite nice to have an original illustration + a set of greeting cards of the garden, go hand in hand together.  But if you're just interested in just one or the other, then thats fine too!

Please contact me on charlotte_vallance@hotmail.com 

I'll happily answer any questions you may have.  And if you know the general size of illustration you would like, and maybe have an image of the garden (so I can see how much there is going on that I'll have to work with), I can give you a quote.

Thank you x

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If you bought a '(Delft) Blue' book of mine from The London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery, please do get in touch!

charlotte_vallance@hotmail.com

Thank you x

The 6th Manchester Artists' Book Fair with Hot Bed Press

My 3rd Artists Book Fair of the year - YAY!  Just the one day, Saturday 22nd October 11am - 6pm.  If you're around at least come and say hello and have a look at the the lovely books and works, at the most, buy lots of books and lovely works!

Myself and Jat Bains will be sharing a table, which hasn't happened since Uni days so we're both excited to be working together and helping sell each others books.  Jat's style is quite photographic and graphicsy next to my illustrative style so they work well next to each other as they are so different.

I'm working away on a new 'Street view' book, similar to the '(Delft) Blue' book on Amsterdam houses that I did for the London Art Book Fair last month.