ALLIX (Susan)

In Paradise. Images from near the Andaman Sea, with short quotations.

SUSAN ALLIX EXPLORES THE PHYSICAL SURROUNDINGS OF AN IMAGINED PARADISE

Six etchings by Susan Allix, four in colour. One of 12 copies, this marked as an out of series Artists Proof, signed by the artist on the limitation page. Wide 8vo. sized, 17 x 17.5cm, c.40pp (pagination complicated by a multitude of interleaved tissue and coloured papers). Original artists’ binding of green batik printed partial covers over separate green paper wrappers blind embossed with a floral pattern, title printed separately on an interleaved paper strip, numerous interleaved handmade papers in various colours throughout, with original purple cloth drop-back box, with green cloth batik printed tie. London, Susan Allix, 2012.

£450.00

Fine.

In Allix’s words, her book explores the physical surroundings of an imagined paradise which ‘evoke a pleasurable and undemanding experience. Each section of the book is a separate proposal that is expressed through the shapes, textures and colours of the pages and the prints. This means that pages are different sizes and prints reveal themselves from out of folds and angles of semi-transparent, printed or manipulated papers. The words are brief; short lines found in Coleridge, a hymn, Kipling or Shakespeare.’

Stock No.
234033