Looking through our archives earlier, I stumbled across a project that has yet to be show cased on our website, a wonderfully delicate book for artist Alison Bell's accompanying her exhibition 'Seasilks' dating back to late 2008.
Sea Silks represents Bell’s poetic response to the shoreline of Arran where she has lived for a significant period of her life. The beauty of the Scottish coastline, the purity of light and the constantly changing environment of the shoreline crafted by the ebb and flow of the tide has continuously inspired the artist.
This body of work however, represents a specific response to the rhythms of the rippled sand, the movement of the water and the natural treasures it yields along the shoreline. The forms of the silk pods are inspired by the dried and curled seaweed washed up by the sea along the waters edge. Their colour and surface qualities reflect the movement of light on wet sand and glistening water.
The design aims of this book was to act as a gallery to allow her work to take centre stage, careful consideration was taken to typography, paper stock the rough tactility of the outer paper reflecting sand, along with the grain and weight of the inner pages, and the colour palette with neutral tones using highlights of vibrant red to accentuate headers and quotes.
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