BC and Alberta CBBAG Members (2004)

Barbara Barnes

Allen

Father Charles

Brandt

Ginny Porter

Mary Conley

Dorothy Field

PB+J Press:
Peter Bartl &

Jane Merks

Carolyn C.

Qualle

Rutherford

BARBARA BARNES ALLEN
Whistler BC and Seattle WA

Barbara studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. She has travelled extensively with a particular interest in archaeology. Her work has been seen in over 45 exhibitions in the US since 1990 and is held in numerous public collections.

Broken China, Broken Dreams...
Inside Kimi's Kimonos

Book: oriental gold leaf, collaged with digital images of small objects and broken china; embellished with netting, gold mesh and charms. Pages held together with chopsticks.
Kimonos: oriental paper, collage, charms, edges sealed with ribbon, accented with oriental coins and tassels.
Bottom layers: antique china broken during shipping, edges decorated with ceramic fruit.
Assemblage base: Plexiglas.
Dimensions: each 25 x 25 x 53 cm
(10 x 10 x 21 in)

Bird Dog

Book on Plexiglas assemblage base.
Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 38 cm
(12 x 12 x 15 in)
The pages are also reproduced and bound as an accordion book which can then be viewed on a pedestal.
 

FATHER CHARLES BRANDT
Black Creek BC

Father Brandt studied fine binding with Fritz Brunn, Peter Fahey and Stella Patri; finishing with Barbara Hillar; creative binding at Centro del bel libro, Ascona, Switzerland, and restoration binding in Germany and Austria. He has many years of paper and book conservation experience at institutions in New Brunswick, New England and Ontario and was chief conservator of the Provincial Archives of Manitoba. Father Brandt teaches book restoration, curatorial care of paper and fine binding techniques.

Jerome Commentary

Binding: full leather (Morocco) with blind tooling. Sewn on double cords, tight back. Title executed with handle letters. Gilt top-edge. Hand-sewn headbands. Leather hinges. Gilt roll tooling on inside front and back boards.
Dimensions: 18 x 26 x 7 cm (7 x 10 x 3 in).
Slipcase: museum mounting board covered with paper imitation wood veneer. Lined with felt. Edge of brown oasis leather.

History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique
by Bernard C. Middleton

Binding: Full leather with classical gilt design. Hollow back with false raised cords. Gilt top-edge. Hand-sewn headbands.
Dimensions: 15 x 23 x 3 cm (6 x 9 x 1 in).
Slipcase: museum mounting board covered with Charles Brandt hand-marbled original paper. Lined with felt. Edge of purple oasis leather.

Cleaning and Preserving Bindings

by Carolyn Horton

Binding: full leather (Morocco) with on-lays and gilt line design. Title with handle letters. Gilt top-edge. Leather hinges. Hand-sewn headbands.
Dimensions: 25 x 22 x 1 cm (10 x 9 x .4 in).
Slipcase: museum mounting board covered with paper imitation wood veneer. Lined with felt. Edge of green oasis leather.

JOAN BYERS & GINNY PORTER
Black Creek BC

Joan and Ginny both work in second hand bookstores in Sidney and are active members of the Fairbank Calligraphy Society. Self taught for the most part, they have also attended many workshops in calligraphy and bookbinding. When time permits, they enjoy letterpress printing at their Apple Press Farm workshop, drawing, painting, gardening, and of course, reading.

The Bookkeeper

A flag book structure housed in a doll.
Doll: batting, matt board, white fabric; head of newspaper, masking tape, paste, and acrylic paint.
Book: Strathmore paper, matt board, Arches Text Wove and Chinese ink and gouache for the words "black and white" (in 15 languages).
Dimensions: doll in sitting position,
20 cm (8 in), book, 7 x 8 cm (2.75 x 3 in).

MARY CONLEY
Victoria BC

Mary studied at Vancouver School of Art, The Honolulu Academy of Art, and the Victoria College of Art. She teaches and also studies calligraphy and book arts with the Fairbank Calligraphy Society in Victoria. Her work has been exhibited in the Pacific Northwest and published in Somerset Studio magazine.

Wonderland

Pop-up accordion book about Alice in Wonderland.
Cover: lettering outlined in Pigma pen and painted with gouache; background coloured with pencil crayon. Silk tie.
Pages: card stock. Computer generated text. Illustrations in Pigma pen, airbrushed in watercolour.
Dimensions: 13 x 17 x 4 cm (5 x 6.5 x 1.5 in).

DOROTHY FIELD
Cobble Hill BC

Dorothy has an MA in Design from the University of California at Berkeley where she specialized in textiles. Dorothy has studied with Tim Ely, Claire van Vliet, Bridget O’Malley, and others, and apprenticed at a paper mill in Wonju, Korea. She has taught and lectured at art and paper centres including Columbia College/Chicago Center for Book and Paper, Penland School, and Rhode Island School of Design. Her study of Asian papermaking in Japan, Korea, and Nepal has resulted in numerous magazine articles and a limited edition book. Her work has been seen in exhibitions in Canada, United States, Costa Rica, and Japan.

Butter and Barley

Accordion structure with extra sheets sewn into the folds.
Cover: book board with plastic bangle – a Tibetan girl's gift.
Text pages: Kozo paper treated with dry pigments and Polaroid transfers (papermaker: Dorothy Field). White paper of overbeaten flax carries the pochoir illustrations. (papermaker: Jana Pullman).
Dimensions: 8 x 30 x 3 cm (3 x 12 x 1 in).

Garry Oak Book

Accordion structure sewn into wrap-around cover. Book opens to a jagged circle – like a Garry Oak grove.
Cover: paper has feel of Garry Oak bark: kozo and mixture of local fibers, treated with tapioca starch and walnut dye (Dorothy Field).
Text pages: ink-jet printed vellum, laid over second vellum sheet with black-and-white and colour Xeroxes of photographs, Polaroid transfers.
Dimensions: 15 x 22 cm (6 x 8.5 in).

PB+JPB+J PRESS
PETER BARTL & JANE MERKS
Balfour BC

Peter is a master printer who apprenticed as a typesetter and later studied at the Basel College of Design, Switzerland. He taught visual communication design at the University of Alberta until 2000.

Jane is an illustrator and bookbinder. She attended university in Montreal, Halifax (B.Des) and Edmonton (M.Des). While she taught graphic design in universities throughout Canada and the USA, she continued working as an artist, designer, and craftsperson.

Index of the Mind:
Physiognomy and the eighteenth-century novel, lecture
by Juliet McMaster

Printed by Peter Bartl. Bound by Jane Merks.
Cover: pigskin embellished with a shiny multi-coloured polymer, hand-marbled paper.
Pages: Letterpress printed using polymer plates.
Endpapers: hand-marbled paper.
Slipcase cover: buckram.
Edition: 25.
Dimensions: 28 cm x 46 cm
(11 x 18 in).

Peter and Jane's book arts studies include: papermaking with Anne Marie Kennedy, Japanese woodcarving with Richard Flavin, odd boxes with Barbara Mauriello, paper engineering with Carol Barton, portfolios and box making with Mindell Dubansky, wood engraving with Wesley Bates, bookbinding and marbling with Chris Dickenson, bookbinding with Susan Mills, letterpress printing with Robert Dawson.

Open spine blank books
Bound by Jane Merks.
Binding: Kettlestitched or open spine on ribbon.
Covers: Paste paper by Claire Maziarczyk.
Embellished with metal ornaments, suede, beads, rice paper or paste paper add ons.
Average dimensions: 17 cm x 22 cm
(7 x 9 in).

TV sucks U in every time
Jane Merks
Construction: tunnel book.
Materials: board, fabric, paper, Tyvek, marbled paper, suede, leopard print, and gold and silver vinyl, newspaper TV listings. Dimensions: 25 x 25 x 84 cm
(10 x 10 x 33 in).

CAROLYN C. QUALLE
Calgary AB

Her prints and books have been exhibited in over 35 juried group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Japan, England, and Australia in the last decade and are in many public and private collections. Her work was shown in Perspectives On The Book at Uncommon Objects in Toronto, Ontario. Carolyn has taught book arts at Alberta College of Art and Design; Center For Book Arts, New York City; The Japanese Paper Place, Toronto; CBBAG, Calgary, and was Visiting Artist at National Paper Exhibition, Grande Prairie, Alberta. She is currently the Fine Art Specialist at Lycee Louise Pasteur School in Calgary.

Garden Journal: Summer

Pop-up book. Serigraph printed, hand written, and collaged.
Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 2 cm (8 x 8 x 1 in).

This Is My Letter To The World

Nine serigraph prints and inclusions
on waxed and dyed paper
envelopes.
Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm each (12 x 12 in).

Island

Dimensional print of plaster, pigment and serigraph on altered book.
Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm each (12 x 12 in).

TERRY RUTHERFORD
Port Moody BC

Terry is a book conservator in private practice since 1986. She studied traditional hand bookbinding in the United Kingdom and book conservation at the Centro del bel libro, Ascona, Switzerland. She studied parchment manuscript restoration and worked as a book conservator in Switzerland in 1994 and 1995. Terry returned to study fine binding and alternative book structures at the Centro del bel libro in 2001. Terry teaches traditional and non-traditional bookbinding structures in classes and as a private tutor.

Journey

Construction: accordion fold.
Cover: applied frame covered in leather with inset linocut title and wire figures.
Edition: 10.
Dimensions: 23 x 16 cm (9 x 6 in).

Searching for Hunger

Construction: nested accordion fold. First two layers are paper cutouts. Back layer is either blank, gilded, painted and/or collaged.
Paper: Canson Mi-teintes.
Dimensions: 23 x 16 cm (9 x 6 in).