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1944094-R1-025-11 The paper is handmade by me and is composed of a olive and gold tinted paper comibined with abaca fibres. The text has been stencilled (one letter at a time) directly onto the paper. The images are done with pastel and conte, and are not done directly onto the paper but are supported on a vellum finish paper the same colour as the handmade and affixed to the handmade paper. The dimensions of the book are 6 inches by 27 inches (open). The book was made in an edition of five. There are four left for sale, at $200.00 each. A copy of this book also appeared in The Passionate Book exhibition. |
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1944094-R1-031-14 A soft cover hand-sewn book with a print on an open right-hand page This book is called Watching You Sleep, and was published by me (Seawrack Press) in 1991. The paper is handmade (mine) and is made from abaca and cedar bark fibres. Dimensions of the book are 7 inches by 11 inches (closed). The book is ten pages in length. The text of the poem has been set (by me) in 14 point Kennerly Roman type,over three pages. On three of the pages are etchings, one per page. The binding is concertina fold, with rice paste adhesive. An edition of 30 was made. There is one left for sale, at $100.00. Copies of this book were in a book exhibition in Halifax in 2001, and also in the Artist Book Exhibition of NorthWest Bookfest in Seattle in October 2001. |
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1944094-R1-023-10 A white accordion-fold book starting with “in the morning a woodpecker drumming.” This is one of three different versions of an accordian fold book published in 2004 called "Gifts." The paper is handmade, by me, and is composed of abaca and yellow sild fibres. The text has been stencilled directly onto the paper. The images are chine colle aquatints (etchings) wiwth Japanese papers (hadaura, kozo, and others). Dimensions of the book are 6 inches by 17 inches (open). The book was produced in an edition of 5. The cost is $200.00. There are three left for sale. A copy of this book appeared in an exhibition entitiled the Passionate Book in Vancouver in October 2004 at the Canadian Crafthouse on Granville Island. |
Artist Statement |
What do I love about making paper? The mystery, the alchemy, the long and meandering process of selecting various fibres which relate to the text and images that the paper will eventually support, wondering how the fibres will interact with each other, thinking about the colours that the final sheets of paper may be, delighting in the soft muted tones that come from working with the natural fibres and dyes I've chosen, such as fine yellow silk threads, cedar and cherry barks, wisteria fibre and dyes from various found lichens of the BC Coast.
Biography |
Gina Page currently divides her time between Powell River, BC, a small isolated community on the Sunshine Coast, and Richmond, BC, an island municipality adjacent to Vancouver; she has taught in Richmond for the last 16 years. Gina has spent most of her life living on the BC coast. Much of her poetry and art reflect the influence of time spent by the sea and salt water marshes.
Gina has a Bachelor of Education degree (in art and English Literature) from UBC, and a Master of Education degree from the University of Victoria. At UBC she studied with well-known Vancouver artists Gordon Smith and Sam Black, and graphics teacher Bob Steele.
Gina first had some of her poetry published in 1971 in a journal called Hyperion, published in Berkeley, California. In 1986, she published her first chapbook Along a Road of Pattering Shade; the book design and typesetting for the chapbook were done by Wil Hudson, master typographer. ("Night Blossoming", one of the poems in this book was mentioned in a review by George Woodcock in the Poetry Column in BC Bookworld, Issue 1, 1989.) Two years later Gina was very fortunate to have Will Hudson as her teacher in some of the basics of letterpress typesetting. She has since published four other chapbooks: The Story of the Last Elephant (a poem by Rudy Penner), Watching You Sleep, Dream of the Sea, and Gifts.
Gina went on to attend the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Desing in Vancouver, BC and began courses with various instructors in typesetting, papermaking, bookbinding, printmaking, painting and drawing at ECIAD: Doug Biden--monoprints; Lisa McLean--etchng; Rick Williams--anatomical drawing and as an instructor in a drawing-the-human-figure course in Florence, Italy; Sharon Yuen--papermaking; Denise Carson-Wilde--typesetting; Celia King--bookbinding; Monique Fouquet--drawing; Lucy Hogg--painting; John Graham--artists books.
Since 1991, Gina has been a member of Malaspina Printmaking Society on Granville island in Vancouver, BC, where she has worked almost entirely with various etching processes. There she has taken courses with a number of instructors such as Vincent Sheridan--etching; Denise Wilson--etching using photosensitive films; Glenn Madsen--lithography; Julie McIntyre--woodcuts; Milos Jones--advanced lithography.
Contact |
Gina Page
8160 Fairdell Crescent
Richmond, BC
Canada V7C 1W4
Phone: 604-274-0919