Pride and Prejudice book sculpture

Pride and Prejudice book sculpture

This is my latest book sculpture "Would you do me the honour of reading that letter." based on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

It is made from a Nelson classics edition of the book using the original illustration with the addition of papercut trees and grass.

Once they are printed there will be getting cards available to buy in my shop.

Jane Austen book sculpture

Danny Champion of the World book sculpture

Danny Champion of the World book sculpture, based upon the children's novel by Roald Dahl.

 I used a lovely edition of the book from the late 1970s that I picked up for almost nothing on ebay. I was able to use the illustrations from the book in the sculpture.

 The gypsy caravan is crafted from paper with an LED light inside,

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Watership Down altered book sculpture

 This book sculpture is my adaptation of the novel 'Watership Down' by Richard Adams.

 I wanted to use the characters as depicted in the 1978 animated film version as I have very strong childhood memories of it.

 I hope I have managed to encapsulate several of the key scenes and the overall 'feel' of the novel and film.

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner book sculpture

 This book sculpture is a commission piece based on the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

 The customer's main brief was that she wanted the ship in stormy seas and ice-bergs. The albatross was on her desired but not required list, but I think it makes the piece to have it circling the ship.

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Bookshop window display 2014

 This Christmas I have created six new book sculptures for the window of the Cambridge University Press bookshop.

 They will be on display from the 24th November until the 6th January 2015. The sculptures can be won in a charity raffle, tickets are just £1 each and can be bought from the bookshop.

 All the sculptures come with their own display case, anyone can enter but the winners have to arrange collection from the bookshop at 1 Trinity Street, Cambridge, UK.

 The sculptures are: A visit from St. Nicholas ('Twas the night before Christmas), Jingle Bells, King's College chapel Cambridge, Hansel and Gretel, The Round Church in Cambridge and Mr. Tumnus and Lucy under the lamppost from the Nania stories.

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Meeting Mr Tumnus, Narnia book sculpture

 This is my latest book sculpture, call 'Meeting Mr Tumnus'. It is of course based on 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' by C. S. Lewis.

 I had been thinking for a while that the scene near the scene near the beginning when Lucy first enters Narnia and meets Mr Tumnus by the lamp post in the forest would be an interesting project.

 I used two different colours of LED, a white light in the lamp post, giving a nice icy winter feel, and a warmer white in the wardrobe .

Don Quixote book sculpture.

 This is a new book sculpture of mine. It is another commission, the customer just wanted something related to Don Quixote (or Quijote if you prefer) I immediately though of the famous 'tilting at windmills' scene - this is the result.

Two new book sculptures

 It's been quite a while since I last posted, have sadly been busy, but here are a couple of new book sculptures I have been working on.

'Perhaps I shall find out somebody's secret!' and 'Love's bright dream' both feature illustrations from a late Victorian family compendium that I picked up for next to nothing from a junk shop.

 Each blade of grass is individually cut by hand with a scalpel and glued into place a row at a time.

 In this sculpture the pages are cut along the text, the twisted and buckled to give the appearance of waves.

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Justin Rowe book sculpture exhibition 14th/15th July 2012

Just a quick post to publicise my forthcoming exhibition here in Cambridge. There will be a few new sculptures on display as well as some old favourites. There will also be an extensive range of cards and prints to buy, all with a 10% discount if you print off the above flyer.

What Katy Did book sculpture

 'What Katy did in the Woodshed' is my latest book sculpture inspired by the children's classic by Susan Coolidge.

 If you don't know the story Katy is told not to use the swing in the woodshed because it is not safe - Katy ignores this, the swing breaks and she falls and hurts her back.

 In this picture you can see the tiny broken swing through the woodshed door.

 I have used dollhouse lighting in this piece, it has a lovely soft, trembling light to it, very eerie.

 This piece will be part of my exhibition in Cambridge during July this year.

 In darkness the case gives some lovely reflections, I've tried to capture it in this picture, but it looks much better in the flesh.

Wind in the Willows altered book sculpture

Wind in the Willows is my latest book sculpture, an interpretation of the stories by Kenneth Grahame.

It is another private commission, the brief was to include toad driving a Morgan car, otherwise I could do what I wanted.

 The river is Palladium leaf and the sun is gold leaf.

 Took about ten attempts to get the car right, quite pleased with the end result though.