I am a librarian and I love books . I spent the first week of July sketching book-ish events of Melbourne Rare Book Week. You can see some of my blogposts here. I have been privileged to be official sketcher on location for the past three years, The combination of sketching and books is my idea of bliss !

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I also DRAW BOOKS and DRAW IN BOOKS.

I originally drew IN books as part of a Melbourne Rare Book Week exhibition “You Can’t Draw in Books”, where I drew in books that were about to be discarded, giving them a new life. See some of them here . Some of these are available for purchase on my ETSY online store

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My current “Drawing in Books” projects is for the Blarney Biblio Art Prize. I entered this last year with my drawings in Field Study Guide to Nature. This year the entry has changed a little. Instead of creating an art work inspired by a title of your own choosing, you enter and are given a random title. Mine is Year of Wonder: a Year of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks. Of course , I will draw in the book with my watercolour pencils, however you can interpret your given title in any way artistically. Open to anyone around the world!

I have read the book twice, once to read the story, the second time to identify pages and paragraphs that have the potential for illustrating. The novel is about a village which quarantines itself in 1666 from the plague in order to prevent the disease from spreading further.  I will post updates here as I go. There will be at least one rat drawn n the pages….It is due in October.

And finally, I draw books, I love old books, with character and old worn pages, Some of these have been printed as greeting cards and are available for purchase on my ETSY website

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