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Table filled with paper tests and finished pages for 2 new artist books

Different view of table filled with paper tests and finished pages of 2 new artist books

Working on 2 #artistbooks at the same time just now, trying to finish winter inspired work before spring starts next week #printmaking #visualpoetry #womanartist

Magdalena Abakanowicz Abakan Red, large hanging woven sculpture with yellow and orange sculpture hanging near in the same space

Eileen Agar, the Bird, painting of colourful patterned dove with egg shapes in many colours over laid.

Louise Bourgeois, drawing, red line drawing of flowers and stems

Emily Dickinson, envelope poem. Hand writing on fragment of cream coloured envelope.

#internationalwomensday 4 artists I return to again and again as a constant source of inspiration. Abakanowicz for form, Agar for colour, Bourgeois for line and Dickinson for voice. #art #womenartists #poetry #drawing #sculpture #painting

A huge thanks to all who visited @fruitmarket.bsky.social Artists Bookmarket this weekend. Great to see old friends & new. Thanks to the staff who were lovely as always. Thank you for all the support ❤️ #artistbooks #letterpress #artistsmultiples #Edinburgh

Didn't have time to do the annual #papercut so here's one I did many #moon ago, Si Ji Ping An- wishing you 4 seasons of peace & safety. Happy #lunarnewyear
#art #womanartist

A few of my #artistbooks that will be on the @frostpocketpress.bsky.social stall the Artists' Bookmarket @fruitmarket.bsky.social this weekend. I will be womening the stall Saturday and Sunday 10.30 till 5, come along and say hello. #womanartist #printmaking #letterpress #Edinburgh

Seed Figure, deboss, watercolour and gold inked seed on paper. Edition of 9. #art #womanartist #printmaking #collage

Thank you!

Poster for Artists Bookmarket at Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh on 14th and 15th February 2026. Olive green background with text in white and orange, 2026 in black.

Frost Box 2 Neep. 8 different printed pieces all on the neep(swede/turnip/rutabaga) theme. With the box letterpress printed with the word neep in purple.

Looking forward to Artists Bookmarket @fruitmarket.bsky.social in less than 2 weeks, 14/15 February. Our latest Frost Box will be with us along with lots of other goodies on our stall. Hope to see you there #artistbooks #letterpress #printmaking #art #Scotland

Storm Cast Fragments, drawing with found and hand made paper. As this years stormy nature continues, and the current storm batters the house and coast, heres a piece I finished a couple of months ago. #womanartist #scottishartist #art #collage #drawing

The weight of #snow. It's always amazing how much snow can hang on to leaves and thin stems. #winter #scotland

Doesn't need to be insulated, I have them here in North East Scotland and they use a nest box used by sparrows aswell. They all pile in at just after dusk, it's against the house so might offer more protection

Frosted sea holly flower

Stormy sea and grey sky with a heavy band of darker grey cloud

A frosty photo from 2 years ago because today looked like the other photo. Wishing everyone festive cheer and a peaceful, antifascist, democratic 2026🕊 #frost #photography #art #scottishartist #womenartists

A Gairden Gaitherin o the birds, open at Winter. For todays solstice #ArtAdventCalendar #artistbooks #scottishlanguage #letterpress #printmaking #scottishartist #womenartists

Cactus Web, analogue photography, silk thread, Japanese paper. Edition of 10. #ArtAdventCalendar #art #photography #scottishartist #womenartists #botanicalart

Growing Beans, #woodcut, edition of 10. #printmaking #ArtAdventCalendar #art #scottishartist #womenartists

Heart Finds, linen backed map style #artistbook each #heart was found on daily walk or in the home, #photographs are polaroid style with #letterpress map ref's
#ArtAdventCalendar #art #womanartist #scottishartist

Songs of Grey II: wintered, felt with stitched #drawing. #ArtAdventCalendar #art #winter #scottishartist #womenartists

Flower 1a, woodcut on tulip petals. #printmaking #ArtAdventCalendar #scottishartist #womenartists

Off white paper with embossed water drops, 7 vertical lines of gold stitching and pale blue horizontal bars of thread joining 2 of the 7 vertical lones

Rain, embossed paper with stitching. Lana royal crown paper, A5 sized, edition of 10. #art #womanartist #scottishartist #rain

Delighted to have 3 #artistbooks in Home Work Love Hope exhibition at Uprightgallery.com view in person or online. On now until 19th December.
#buyrealart #womenartists #scottishartist

A nod to the social media, but also a reminder of the daily rags once flicked through.
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Holding the paper booklet brings a closeness to the inspiration, something absent from scrolling past quickly on a small screen. Roughly old Polaroid sized, embracing the instant nature of photos on a phone, with hand written working titles these zines are printed on newsprint.
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New #artistbooks Daily walk photo #zines. In response to my uneasy nature to social media, at a time when the world seems alien, too far towards authoritarian, fascism and hatred, I need to step away from digital and back to real life.
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Matchstick printed with the words 'the last hope' stitched on to the cover of the book

Open book with black and white photo of hand holding burnt match facing page with hole burnt through

New artist book, The last hope. #hope #artistbooks #womenartists #art #letterpress #blackandwhitephotography

From the series Medicinal Flowers of Lebanon, 2021 by street artist, muralist Faith47 #WomensArt

This is a hate crime, there should be arrests being made

All set up and ready for Visual Arts Scotland #Artist and Makers market at Dalkeith Palace open 10.30 till 4.30 today and tomorrow. #art #scotland #womenartists #printmaking #letterpress

Night Garden Drawing on black paper with white, silver and grey pencil.

Seed Beastie Sonata Drawing with yellow, white and black on grey paper

Excited to have these 2 #drawing in A New Primer, #edinburghfestival #contemporaryart exhibition, A Book Of Dreams. Show runs 15-30 August at St Margaret's House, #edinburgh come along!
#womenartists #scottishartist #art
Night Garden image left Seed Beastie Sonata image right

Collage on paper of 6 pebbles in a circle, cut for layers of relief printed paper

Poem printed on hand made paper to access the collage.

Delighted to have Pebble Circle selected for the in shop exhibition of the SSA Life With Water exhibition 30x30 edition, the online complimentary show to SSA at An Tobar: Life With Water 15 August- 24 October on Isle of Mull. This piece will by on show and for sale at An Tobar shop #art #womenartist