Category Archives: Books

Notting Hill Books

Posted on February 9, 2013 by hamer the framer

Many of the books on my shelves were discovered in this wonderful wooden shed on Palace Gardens Terrace. On fine days there would be a table outside laid with small appetisers to tempt me inside, where I would be greeted … Read more…

Organizing The Bookcase

Posted on February 8, 2013 by hamer the framer

Stop motion animation by Sean Ohlenkamp with music by Rodrigo & Gabriela.

For Evelyn Hallewell

Posted on February 6, 2013 by hamer the framer

I was reminded of this book by Bewick’s Nature Print. It was given to us by Evelyn Hallewell. She discovered The Rowley Gallery late in life and explored it via the website from her home in Scotland. We never met … Read more…

A Burns Miscellany

Posted on February 5, 2013 by hamer the framer

A few days ago we received this wee pamphlet from Jonny Hannah to commemorate Scotland’s national poet. A shame it arrived just too late for Burns Night…

Bewick’s Nature Print

Posted on January 21, 2013 by hamer the framer

The Hedge Warbler or Dunnock Printed from the boxwood block engraved by Thomas Bewick for his History of British Birds, 1797

A Talkative Font

Posted on January 5, 2013 by hamer the framer

Last October Howard Phipps wrote about Eggardon for Frames Of Reference, and he sent me a postcard from the nearby church of St Basil in Toller Fratrum, noting on the back that John Piper was keen on the font. It … Read more…

From Powdermills To Wistman’s Wood

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Tim Cumming

Here is an extract from a prose work in progress about family life in summer on Powdermills Farm in the 1960s and 1970s. My father, then head of art at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art, had hired a cottage … Read more…

Apocalypse Now (Or Maybe Tomorrow)

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Will Smith

So we’re all looking forward (in no particular order) to Christmas, The Mayan ‘Apocalypse’ 21/12/12, The Euro Apocalypse / the imminent Bond Market collapse, the next high flying celebrity to crash and burn, the next Flood, the first nuclear war, … Read more…

For William Turnbull

Posted on November 29, 2012 by hamer the framer

I treasure this little booklet. It’s a catalogue from Waddington Galleries in 1981, a souvenir of a beautiful and influential little exhibition of small bronzes. It got me looking at Brancusi and Giacometti and prompted countless visits to the British … Read more…

Jelly’s Sketchbook

Posted on November 23, 2012 by hamer the framer

Jelly Green brought us another of her richly painted cow portraits recently, then produced a Moleskine sketchbook from her bag to show that cows are not her only subjects.