SQUEAKY BINDERS
A Radiance from the Sea
ATLANTIC
6 Designs
Godrevy, Bosigran, Porthmeor Cove, Trebarwith Strand, Pedn Vounder, Trevaunance.
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Inspired by the colours of the restless ocean and the tool marks of the artists and other mark makers found on the north coast of Cornwall - 6 evocative abstract designs relating to the Atlantic coastline feature in this handy notebook.
Width - 140mm (including binding) Height - 130mm Depth - 13mm
82 Pages (164 sides) - 52 blank, 53 lined, 46 squared, 6 double page spreads with illustrations and text and front page.
Printed locally in Cornwall on sustainably sourced paper.
Squeaky’s Special Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our Special Edition handmade Notebook has a truly distinctive hard case cover containing all the illustrations and pages inside ready to be filled with all your lovely words.
Inspired by the colours of the restless ocean and the tool marks of the artists and other mark makers found on the north coast of Cornwall. Few who come here fail to leave their marks and fewer still return home un-marked by their encounter. Learn more…
This beautiful little ‘Atlantic’ handmade Special Edition notebook is very special. Our unique cover design has a square window containing one of the six abstract designs protected by an acrylic cover which is held in place with solid copper or brass rivets. The whole case is covered with a striking bright blue bookcloth.
Inside, we use complementary eye-catching endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 54 blank, 74 lined and 26 squared pages with all of the ‘Atlantic’ illustrations spaced at intervals throughout.
We also add a multi-coloured, hand dyed page marker ribbon so you’ll never lose your place and smart headbands complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
“...for storytellers, yarn spinners, novelists, family journalers, bards, poets, hopeless romantics, doodling daydreamers, memory keepers, jotters, scribblers, scrawlers and every other imaginable creative writer and fabulous wordsmith - whoever you are! ”
Such a fabulous gift for creative writers who love exciting abstract art representing the magnificent Cornish ‘Atlantic’ coastline.
Postcards
Artfully abstract ‘Atlantic’ designs available as set of 6 Postcards.
Inspired by the colours of the restless ocean and the tool marks of the artists and other mark makers found on the north coast of Cornwall. Few who come here fail to leave their marks and fewer still return home un-marked by their encounter. Learn more…
A lovely set of 6 Postcards - one of each design - presented in an attractive drawstring organza bag.
Our 150mm x 150mm Postcards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper in an organza bag - 195mm x 295mm in size.
Squeaky Binders inspirational ‘Atlantic’ range - ‘in the margin ‘tween the land and sky where the blue green ocean pounds its restless cry.’'
Art Cards Wallet Gift Set
Complete set of 6 Art Cards presented in a beautiful folding Wallet - ideal for someone who loves the Cornish Atlantic coastline.
Inspired by the colours of the restless ocean and the tool marks of the artists and other mark makers found on the north coast of Cornwall. Few who come here fail to leave their marks and fewer still return home un-marked by their encounter. Learn more…
This special Gift Set offers you all six individual Art Cards presented in our beautiful folding wallet to keep them safe and to display proudly on any writing desk.
Our 150mm x 150mm Art Cards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper, blank inside and supplied with 155mm x 155mm brown Kraft envelope, wrapped in a clear sleeve.
Squeaky Binders inspirational ‘Atlantic’ range - ‘in the margin ‘tween the land and sky where the blue green ocean pounds its restless cry’
Inspired by the colours of the restless ocean and the tool marks of the artists and other mark makers found on the north coast of Cornwall. Few who come here fail to leave their marks and fewer still return home un-marked by their encounter. Learn more…
Beneath its distinctive dust jacket this beautiful little ‘Atlantic’ handmade First Choice Edition notebook is covered with a striking bright surf blue bookcloth while inside we use our in-house designed ‘Squeaky Binders’ endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 54 blank, 74 lined and 26 squared pages with all of the ‘Atlantic’ illustrations spaced at intervals throughout and smart headbands to complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
“...for storytellers, yarn spinners, novelists, family journalers, bards, poets, hopeless romantics, doodling daydreamers, memory keepers, jotters, scribblers, scrawlers and every other imaginable creative writer and fabulous wordsmith - whoever you are! ”
A fabulous gift for creative writers who love exciting abstract art representing the magnificent Cornish ‘Atlantic’ coastline.
Inspiration and technique
Few who come to Cornwall fail to leave their mark in one way or another and fewer still return home un-touched by their encounter.
Some, like Dame Barbara Hepworth, have stayed to carve out their marks internationally, inspired as she put it, by “a strong sunlight and radiance from the sea which almost surrounds this spit of land”.
The ‘Atlantic’ series of images are inspired by the colours of a restless ocean and the tool marks of the artists and other mark makers found on the north coast of Cornwall ‘in the margin ‘tween the land and sky, where the blue green ocean pounds its restless cry’
So I’m minding my own business in a garden in St Ives admiring a bronze sculpture when the sun comes out from behind a cloud and does this to an internationally renown piece of art. It’s there for a moment and then it’s gone - the colour and the detail that is, not the sculpture - that was still there in all its deep copper-bronze magnificence but somehow not quite what it was a moment ago.
I wait, and when it happens again I record this view with my phone but it really doesn’t do justice to what I saw - the colours of the ocean in St Ives Bay were splashed so lavishly across the surface of the bronze that you might imagine you heard the sound of the surf in the rhythm of their dancing.
And in that moment the marks of its creation are also laid bare, along with a history of the ‘changes and chances of this fleeting world’ that have left their marks upon its surface too.
I’m a Cornishman, a toolmaker and a tool user; I like making marks and I enjoy looking at the marks other people make, whatever the intention that lies behind them. I’m also a photographer so I understand how central light is to the art and craft of my work but this light show certainly left its mark on me.
We all make marks and those carvings, writings, paintings, hammerings or scratches all carry our distinctive signature for the use of any tool reveals something of our character and temperament just as we do when we sign our name.
The Atlantic has its own temperament and character, making its own marks on the land, carving out coves and inlets, leaving headlands and beaches along with ripples in the sand.
And ‘…the call of a running tide is a strong call and fierce call that may not be denied’ as John Masefield wrote so eloquently. Favourite haunts are soon found and treasured for a lifetime; places where in winter the ferocity of an Atlantic gale might be experienced or where in summer the tide tickles the toes in an invitation to come swimming.
My ‘Atlantic’ images are a fusion of these thoughts and impressions with the colours coming only from these inherent in each image and my own digital scratchings added for good measure.
They are not a record of where marks may be found but a celebration of my native Cornwall, Land of the Far West, a little spit of land pointing proudly out into the setting sun and facing every day the blue green might of the unfettered Atlantic.
We all have our own favourite places on Cornwall’s Atlantic Coast, these six images from the Atlantic series are named after some of mine.
