poems, pictures, and kitchen table publishing

I have been preparing my letterpress haiku pictures for display at the Big Skill craft fair in Hay on Wye next weekend.You can see the pictures close up in a previous post, Printing, Pegasus and Poetry.

The poems are letterpress printed onto pages of old books. I hadn't really thought how to present them, but luckily my friend Jill was able to help. She's an artist and also a picture framer, and we had a very happy afternoon choosing mountboard of different colours, which she then cut for me. And she told me the how to do it and the what to buy.

Cellophane, sellotape, and a ruler are very important. And I am rather pleased with the results. The butterflies look wonderful.

And the Pegasus pictures so dramatic. I am very glad I painted the kitchen blue earlier this year - everything looks so good in front of it.

I do wonder if we will ever be able to eat in the kitchen again though.

 Jill has a wonderful print studio in Madley, with the most fabulous old printing press, which I am going to introduce to my trays of wooden letters after the craft fair. Here's a link to her website, www.theprintshed.net

And here's a poster for the fair. I'm really looking forward to it. And if the weather is like this weekend!