SQUEAKY BINDERS

6 Designs

Sunshine, Dark Blue, Green, Heather, Sky Blue, Moonlight.

Illustrated Notebook

A handy sized wire bound notebook containing 6 ‘Cornish Mines’ illustrations with blank, lined and squared pages for all your notes - makes a great gift too.

Squeaky’s First Choice Edition Illustrated Notebook

Our First Choice Edition handmade notebook contains all the ‘Cornish Mines’ illustrations with plenty of room inside for all your creative writings - makes a great gift too.

Mini Journal, Art Card and Pencil Set

The ‘Cornish Mines’ Range

Where Cornish heritage and printmaking combine.

It’s not where you start from but where you end up!

Find inspiration where you can and let your imagination run riot.

‘I’ve got this idea’ says Lynn ‘for a linocut,’ pause: ‘And I want to use one of your images.’ ‘Yes, of course, no problem,’ I say being the kindly old gent that I am, ‘I’ll put it on the bill.’

I probably thought Lynn intended to create a linocut copy of my Mitchell’s Whim because when she shows me a draft of her design I’m in for a big surprise.

Not only are Rinsey, Carn Galver and East Pool on the same canvas but they are presented in a way that demands interpretation.

I loved the idea immediately and it’s realisations - first as a relief print and then as digital variations on the theme - just as much.

And it doesn’t all happen at once …

This is one of Lynn’s initial layout sketches

that she used to transfer the design onto the Lino plate,

that she then carved to form the relief profile,

that she then carefully inked,

that she then set up with the right paper

and she then finally pressed in Cap’n Jack

(better explain here that we’re not talking about a gnarled old seafarer but Lynn’s etching printing press which is fitted with a large capstan wheel reminiscent of a ship’s wheel)

and then pulled the finished print!

But, even before all that, there is this process of working out in your mind’s eye how each part of that process is going to affect the realisation of what you want to achieve in your project.

This ‘throwaway’ working stage of Lynn’s project is a thing of beauty in its own right, not least because you can see in its detail the expertise and effort required to translate an insightful idea into a fabulous visual outcome.