Artists Books
an experiment
2010
A photographic record of Harry Pierce's garden at Cylinders Estate where Kurt Schwitters worked on his final Merzbarn. Digital prints on Pescia Book Paper. 11 x 15cm, 24pp, £20MERZcollection I
2010
Digitally printed image from watercolour drawing of plant material collected at Cylinders estate where Kurrt Schwitters worked on his final Merzbarn. Concertina on Pescia Book Paper and found paper. 10.5 x 13cm, £10Collection I
2010
Digitally printed image from watercolour drawing of lichens collected in France. Concertina on Pescia Book and Epson Matte Paper. 13.5 x 17.5cm, £15Collection II
2010
Digitally printed image from watercolour drawing of lichens collected in East Lothian. Concertina on Pescia Book and Epson Matte Paper. 13.5 x 17.5cm, £15Collection III
2010
Digitally printed image from watercolour drawing of lichens collected at Hallaig. Book includes an excerpt from Sorley MccLean's poem 'Hallaig'. Concertina on Pescia Book and Epson Matte Paper. 13.5 x 17.5cm, £15Prestonholm
2009
An exploration into the site of a flax mill with reference to some of the people who worked there during the 19th Century. Laser printed with screenprinted cover and dyed Japanese paper insert. 12 x 24cm, 16pp, £20Herbarium - Teaching Aids I & II
2009
A set of 2 digitally printed folios depicting paintings inspired by teaching aids once used at the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh. Printed on Somerset Satin. 17 x 17cm, £5 eachHerbarium 1
2009
A selected facsimile edition taken from Herbarium Catalogue. Digitally printed on Pescia Book and Somerset Satin. 12.3 x 19.6cm, 24pp, £20Herbarium Catlogue
2008
A catalogue containing examples of prints from the Herbarium Series. Includes over 30 etchings which are cut out by hand in order to to resemble herbarium specimens, then fixed to herbarium sheets and labeled. One off piece. 28 x 38 x 6.5cm, Price on request.Portable Museum
2002-present
A box with original gouache painting inset into lid used to transport and display work. 35 x 31 x 9.5cm, NFSEdinburgh, a visual handbook
2007
A visual exploration of the city of Edinburgh which distills cityscape, human, natural and geological history and which allows the viewer to peel back layers within the Old Town, the New Town and the valley between to see what was once there. 12.5 x 15cm, 32pp, four colour litho, £12On Drawing and Drawings, an altered book, facsimile edition
2007
An altered book in which drawings of wild plants populate the pages in an act of reclamation and regeneration. Digitally printed on Pescia Book and Epson Matte papers. 12 x 17.5cm, 24pp, £20
Selected Scottish Drawings, an altered book, selected facsimile edition
2007
An altered book in which drawings of wild plants populate the pages in an act of reclamation and regeneration. Digitally printed on Pescia Book and Epson Matte papers. 12 x 16cm, 24pp, £20Cobweb I
2005
Hand cut Japanese paper expanding web which when opened reveals digital image of a web at its heart. 16.5 x 16.5cm, no copies available.Garden Maps I & II
2005
Set of two large etchings (90 x 60cm) printed on Arakaji Japanese Paper which fold down into screenprinted covers on Somerset Satin. 15 x 30cm, £150 eachRoundabout, Rond Point
2004
Digital record of roundabouts in the UK and France. Boxed set of two books. 32.5 x 12.5 x 2.5cm, £150Monktonhall
2004
Screenprinted concertina with drawn elements showing the decline and demolition of Monktonhall Colliery, Midlothian. Printed on BFK Rives. 9 x 24cm, £40Lothianbridge Viaduct
2004
Screenprinted concertina showing Lothianbridge Viaduct, Midlothian and the wild plants which reclaimed the railway. Printed on BFK Rives. 14 x 17cm, £40Stronmacnair
2003
Photographic record of a ruined cottage depicting the house and garden and the traces people had left. Inserts on Japanese paper give census information about the families which lived there. Digitally printed on Epson Matte and Tonosawa papers. 18 x 9.5 x 1cm, £50Wild Plants Collected in Midlothian
2002
Concertina book of original etchings which record the wild plants in Midlothian throughout a year. Each page depicts a month and each bleeds into the next meaning that when the book is opened out a continuous frieze can be viewed. Frieze stretches to more than 2.5m. Printed on BFK Rives with covers screenprinted on Somerset Satin. Presented in a slip case. 26 x 16 x 2cm, £250