Dear Joanne, Please find enclosed a contribution to your paper boat project. My name is Ann Baxter and I am a member of “Papermakers of Victoria Inc” (Ann is the President ). My home is in the historic central Goldfields area of Victoria, Australia, in a community with may working artists. Much of the surrounding land is made up of dry, hungry Australian bush, but the area also has many apple orchards and olive groves.
The blue boat is made from 100% cotton jeans paper, printed using cyanotype, with cotton rope made from gauze.
The blue boat is made from 100% cotton jeans paper, printed using cyanotype, with cotton rope made from gauze.
The brown boat (and rope) is made from Iris leaves, and printed with eucalypt leaves from my front yard.
The coloured boat is made of reclaimed paper, printed with doors from my hometown of Castlemaine. ( hinges on the sails!)
I would also like to say how much I enjoyed your work ‘Peat Stack’ at the Burnie (In Tasmania) ‘New Paper Old Land’ exhibition. I was just longing to touch it, but of course could not. I loved the ‘feeling ‘ that the book must have held many age-old secrets in it’s folds.
Good luck with your project.
Warm regards Ann.
http://www.papermakers.org.au/index.html
Ann is also a member of the The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA)
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