We arrived in Fabriano. They had pulled out all stops to welcome our international organization of paper makers, paper artists (IAMPA) A large banner in the town square welcomes us upon our arrival. We have a short walk from our hotel through a beautiful park to the historic church and adjoining courtyard where our lectures [...]

We are taking a road trip. We are driving from Berlin to Salzburg, Austria. From Salzburg we will drive to just outside of Venice, stay the night and end up in Fabriano Italy for the IAMPA international congress. We are calling it our "TINS Excellant Adventure". TINS=Tom, Inez, Nancy, Sebastian. Well, you can't say they [...]

Here I am back in Berlin 1 1/2 years from when I took my Masterclass. It is now summer and was winter when I was last here. The days are long. It is fully light by 4 am and stays light until 10 pm. Most of the time has been spent taking Tom to the [...]

I found a "call for artists" for Artist's Books from Bank St Arts in Sheffield, England. What caught my attention about this particular call was in the rules and conditions. It read "We have no desire to engage in discussion about what constitutes an artist's book beyond clarifying that the prize is not concerned with books about [...]

Inez, my teacher turned friend, in Berlin has sent me her gel print. I had sent her mine and now I have hers. I am suppose to add, overprint, basically alter hers using gel printing. Hmmmmmm....... I looked at it and looked at it and looked at it.               [...]