OCAD Book Arts Fair

The first big dump of snow this year is piling up outside and I feel very content sitting here in the studio watching it come down. I’m thankful that it didn’t happen two or three days ago, when Holly and I were whipping up and down the 401 to Toronto and back to exhibit at [...]

The Wonderful Mrs. McGarrigle

This is the first of two entries that will talk up two destinations in the village of Merrickville. About a month before the Studio Tour, Mrs. McGarrigle’s Fine Mustard…. Find Food offered their window to Holly and myself, your humble scribe, to display selections of our wares during the tour. Holly did her usual magic [...]

25th Tour a Wrap!

Holly and I had a great tour this year. I can’t say we were entirely ready — we would have liked to have done more of our own publicity and a mail-out, but the tour fell in the middle of production madness, so the two weekends felt kind of like a holiday.
Shown is the demo [...]

Merrickville Studio Tour

Studio Tour, final weekend, October 3 & 4, 10 am – 6 pm.
For two weekends in the fall, many of the artists who have made Merrickville their home open their studios to the public. It was a mad scramble for Holly and I to convert our studio from cottage industry to art gallery, but it [...]

Monthly update

My, how the time does fly! In the intervening month since my last blog, I have done a number of printing related tasks. I completed my submission to the Grimsby Wayzgoose anthology. The Grimsby Wayzgoose is the venerable book arts show held in Grimsby, Ontario every year in April. ‘Waysgoose’ is an old word to [...]

OCAD Book Arts Fair

This coming weekend Holly and I will be participating in the Ontario College of Art’s annual book arts fair. Details below:
http://apache.ocad.ca/events_calendar/eventdetail.php?id=1042
Of the various book arts events around Ontario, this one stands out because so many of the design students get involved, share tables and strut their stuff. I find it blows some of the must [...]

The 30th Annual Grimsby Wayzgoose

It’s been a while, and I think my blog voice is a bit rusty, but here goes. Over the next few blogs, I’m going to report on the final production of the latest letterpress project from Greyweathers Press, The Vampire and the Seventh Daughter (V&7thD), working backward from the launch.
First, the background. A week ago [...]