After more than 25 years of making handmade paper, studying traditional sheetforming in Europe and Japan and teaching varied aspects of papermaking internationally, I would like to share my knowledge and experience with you!
The magic of transforming plants into paper is enamoring and exciting and potentially addicting!
Smooth and soft to crisp and rattly, the art of hand-forming sheets:
• evokes memories of nature
• encapsulates our ties to history and culture,
• inspires the creative mode
- drawing/painting/casting/embossing/embedding
- folding/cutting/tearing/collaging
- cards/poetry/books
- etc., etc., etc.!
Papermaking has been my creative muse:
I find it a media which invokes deeper and deeper exploration.
