Pop-Up Pictures (Ilminster, Somerset, UK)

During this course we will make a pop-up that can hang on a wall like a painting. You will select your own theme – a landscape, still life, decorative or abstract, for example. The finished piece will be case bound in a hard cover. All welcome.

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Register: http://www.dillington.com/enquire/pop-up-pictures/1455/
Res Fee (from):    £425.00
Non Res Fee:    £271.00

Tutor Information: Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson has an international reputation for his pioneering work in developing literacy through the book arts. He is author of over fifteen titles including A Book of One's Own, Literacy Through the Book Arts and Pictures and Words Together (all published by Heinemann, USA.) Recent teaching tours include Sweden, South Korea and Thailand and he regularly teaches in the USA. He is on the UK Craft Council's select list of British designer-makers.

Dr Johnson is also a successful book artist with work in the collections of the Tate Gallery, London, the Cooper-Hewett Museum in New York, the National Gallery, the Library of Congress, Washington DC, and many US universities including UCLA, Berkeley, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Yale and Harvard. His work was selected for the recent Stand and Deliver USA touring exhibition of pop-up editioned books, and for the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild’s The Art of the Book touring exhibition (2008-09) for which he also received the guild’s Book Art Colophon Award.