2021 Members' Showcase: Mary Ann Sampson

Next up in our 2021 Members' Showcase is Mary Ann Sampson, who will also be featured in an upcoming retrospective at the Gadsden Museum of Art!

Mary Ann Sampson

Mary Ann Sampson has been an avid bookmaker since the early 1980s. She received her MFA in the Book Arts at the University of Alabama. She has shown her work both nationally and internationally. Her studio, One Eye Opera Company, is located in Ragland, Alabama. Her passion for drawing as well as crafting books by hand is shown throughout her body of work.

The works shown below are from two books, Eight Drawings and QWERTY.

Eight Drawings, #2 & 3

Eight Drawings, #6 & 7

QWERTY

2021 Members' Showcase: Monique Lallier

The Southeast Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers is proud to present the 2021 Members' Showcase, a virtual exhibition of work from book artists here in the Southeast!

We received many beautiful submissions from members all around the region. This year, we'll be doing the showcase a little differently by featuring one book artist each week.

First up is Monique Lallier!

Monique Lallier

Bookbinding has been my lifelong career, starting in 1972 and loving it as much as my first day when I walked in the studio of Simone B. Roy with whom I studied for 4 years. I later went to Paris to study gold tooling with Mr Arnoult, Ascona with Edwin Heims, and Solothurn with Hugo Peller. In 1987 I moved to the US to marry Don Etherington. From 1988 to 2000 I was chair of the Standards of Excellence of the Guild of Book Workers. My bindings are in many institutions and private collections.

This is the catalogue of my retrospective exhibition in 2018 at the gallery of Guilford College in Greensboro. I used komihimo for my initials and onlays of different leather. The second binding is Clochemerle illustrated by Dubout. Onlays of lines and rounds, some with tooling to illustrate the atmosphere of the books. French technique of laced-in boards with edge to edge doublures with onlays and suede flyleaves.