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Artists
Robert Wu is an upcoming designer bookbinder and marbler. He holds a Master's degree in Architecture from University of Toronto, Canada. Robert studied bookbinding with Tini Miura, Monique Lallier and Besty Elderidge and experimenting marbling on his own.
Iris Nevins has been a professional marbler since 1978. She marbles in the traditional water based manner in use for many centuries. Her specialty is recreating early papers.
She has written four instructional manuals on the art of marbling: Traditional Marbling, Fabric Marbling, 105 Helpful Marbling Hints and Varieties of Spanish Marbling. She has also published a reprint (now sold out) of James B. Nicholson’s A Manual Of The Art Of Bookbinding, containing 18 original speciments of her own hand-marbled paper. She has written for The Guild Of Bookworkers Journal, Ink & Gall and Marbling Bath.
Iris Nevins has taught marbling at Peters Valley, The Center For Book Arts, The Montclair Historical Society and The Newark Museum.
Iris Nevins works primarily as a supplier of restoration style papers for hand bookbinders throughout the country and some overseas.
Iris also runs a marbling supply business, supplying traditional watercolor marbling colors, tools and other marbling supplies. The waterbased marbling are made in her studio and based on marbling colors used centuries ago. They are formulated to recreate the feel of early papers, and have been compared to marbling what Williamsburg paints are to house paints, antique in their effect.
Her website is www.marblingpaper.com and she lives in Northwest New Jersey. In addition to being a marbler, she is also a jeweler and Irish musician and plays guitar and harp and has a solo guitar CD out called Celtic Guitar Dreams. She also builds her own guitars
Marbler and book-artist,
Brigitte Chardome first of all studied at university and then following the course of events decided to set herself up as a self-employed artist in an area which beforehand had simply been a hobby: creating artists’ books and PAPER. The book workshop at Mariemont and various courses with bookbinders or calligraphers provided the basis for her training. There then followed a time of searching and research concerning the use of paper. She searched a lot, she is still searching a lot but she has also found a lot! The original paper is torn, cut up, crumpled, tinted, coloured, restructured … sometimes to become a picture, but more usually the pages of a book or a book cover.
Tom Leech became the Director of the Press at the Palace of the Governors in 2001. He is a printer, papermaker, marbler and author.
Leech was Project Director for Lasting Impressions: The Private Presses of New Mexico (2005), and was the curator of a number of book art related exhibits at the Palace of the Governors. They include Rebirth of a Craft: Paper Marbling in New Mexico (2003), Making History: Contemporary Handmade Books on New Mexico History (2004), and On the Road: Jack Kerouac and the Writer’s Life (2007).
In an effort to research and revive the ancient art of hand papermaking in Tibet, Leech co-founded the Paper Road/Tibet organization. He demonstrated marbling at the 2002 Smithsonian Folk Life Festival in Washington, DC. His books, printed by private presses, are Haiku Bridge, Lhasa Blues and The Palace Presses. He has been a contributor to Ink & Gall and Hand Papermaking magazines. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and sculpture from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.