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ABCD December 2022
Six of us met yesterday in Jane’s house on Chalice Hill for our last meeting of the year. I don’t think the temperature outside rose above freezing all day, but we were warm, and happy to be together...
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ABCD January 2023
Thanks to Thalia for the use of her account, eight members of Artists’ Book Club Dove met on Zoom this morning, to catch up on our doings since the last meeting, and to learn from Bron how to make a...
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ABCD February 2023
Ten of the thirteen members of Artists’ Book Club Dove met yesterday morning in the Print Studio to share recent work and to learn a fiendishly baffling Guy Begbie variation on the piano-hinge binding...
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ABCD March 2023
Due to the after-effects of eye surgery (exhaustion and double vision), I did not go to the March 3rd meeting. The Dove-droppings were supplied by Clare, and photos were sent to me for this post. On...
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ABCD April 2023
Because even I can’t be in two places at once, I wasn’t at the Dove on Saturday and sadly missed Jane’s Tunnel-book tutorial. But some of the participants have kindly made their photos available. Here...
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ABCD Late April 2023
Six members of Artists’ Book Club Dove met in the print studio on 29th April. There was much talk about our forthcoming exhibition at ACEarts in Somerton 3rd to 10th June. Bron‘s Singing in the Rain...
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ABCD May 2023
Nine members of Artists’ Book Club Dove gathered from near and far on a fine summer’s day to review our books for the forthcoming exhibition in ACEarts, Somerton. The exhibition opens tomorrow...
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ABCD’s Indigo day at the Dove
On 24 August, Jane set up two indigo vats for us outdoors at the Dove. The weather was kind. We folded, inked, wrapped, tied, waxed, and/or clamped, paper and other materials, dipped them in the vat...
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ABCD November 2023
Five of us met in Bron’s kitchen on a fine frosty morning two days ago. We had plenty of news to share. Jane has been in Italy helping with her brother’s olive harvest. Bron has been in London working...
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ABCD January 2024
Five members of Artists’ Book Club Dove met in the print studio on Saturday to share thoughts and show our work on the theme of Thread. It had been a week of much rain, and some of us had to change...
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ABCD Late January 2024
I was not at this meeting, having been struck down for a second time by Covid.But Clare gathered some “rather watery Droppings, with bird life. Well, what else would you expect?”Thank you, Clare! Dove...
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ABCD February 2024
It was good to be back at the Dove last Saturday with other members of Artists’ Book Club Dove. Hellebores and snowdrops were flowering just outside Bron’s print studio.Pauline has been drawing the...
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ABCD March 2024
On 23 March, seven members of Artists’ Book Club Dove welcomed a new member, Diana Illingworth-Cook, a very skilled and creative bookbinder. Not only that, but she keeps hens and ducks! She brought a...
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