original bookart ........

I was here on Wednesday

at a conference. It was actually a very good conference as I didn't start to drop off to sleep until about 5 minutes from the close ... result.

The best of it all was the location The British Library. What a joy!

The only downside was I had merely 30 minutes (during the lunch break) to explore its wonders.
The library contains some 150 million items which includes 25 million books and a glass tower in the centre which houses 65,000 printed volumes along with other pamphlets, manuscripts and maps collected by King George III between 1763 and 1820. A truely magical place.

I wandered in awe aimlessly for about 10 minutes then headed into one of the rooms (not sure what it was called now) ... but it housed books and maps obviously from times gone by.. I saw the writings of Shakespeare, Captain Cook, King Henry VI, Florence Nightingale and Leonardo de Vinci; original music manuscripts of Beethoven, Purcell and Mozart; and beautiful maps from around the world drawn when everyone thought the world was flat.

I had that same warm custard in your belly feeling as I did when I saw my gt-gt Grandfathers signature from 1835 in a birth register in Morlaix, seeing these great works for the first time..


wow this is interesting as I have been surfing around for images etc ... Canterbury Tales on the net .. do take a look


Anyway piece 4 is now complete and I think piece 5 will be done today and 6 done by tomorrow

3 out of 6 ain't bad ....

with only 16 days to go before setting up the exhibition.....

finished piece 3





I love how this has turned out

2 down ...4 in the making .....

& 20 days to go .....


[it has not photographed well]