Author: Jo Howe

I am so excited about the new work I’m currently producing. It takes me back to one of my first encounters with ‘a different type of book’ or ‘a whole new reading experience’. That experience was my first encounter with the tome A Humument by the incredibly talented and renowned artist,  Tom Phillips. You just have to check out his drawings amongst other delights, quite sublime!

So, I noticed my continuation of doodling with a scalpel, a method that allows me to draw without my usual anxiety of  ‘not being able to draw’. The outcomes are often abstract, graphical and full of expression. I will of course post examples of these soon. For some reason, I am not quite ready to share these just yet?

Well, the scalpel did just run, and this process I began to apply to my books. I noticed how easy I journeyed from one part of the page to another, realising that this was enabling me to be a little less concerned about the context of the work and more interested in the process.

The other joy, is that now I am keen as mustard to be in the studio, no matter how cold and quiet it is!

Bring on the books!

I am very excited and proud to announce that I have had two works accepted into this unique and ground breaking project.

I have just come back from the launch party at The University of Suffolk at the Waterfront building in Ipswich, where the collection will be housed.

Thank you to the lovely Mary Down and Freya Purdue for being such good company, and both, of course, also have works in this new collection.

Looking forward to seeing this project grow and the launch exhibition September 2013.

I will keep you posted as this evolves. In the meantime, here is a wee picture (rather bad one I must say) of myself and my two fine companions in the front row at the launch talk.