Public art initiative/light projection Buckingham Palace 2013

Hand-made book 2013

Daudy loves to make books using her own hand ground ink and hand made paper she makes at the Moulin Richard de Bas in Auvergne, a 13th century paper mill beloved of Picasso, Cezanne and others, and from which for example the paper for the Nobel Prize awards are made.

The artist cannot remember exactly but this book and the pages were projected in light on to Buckingham Palace as part of a royal initiative to encourage young British artists. Along with artwork by tens of thousands of other people but it was a great pleasure nevertheless.

Bound together with felt (which represents the idea of redemption to the artist) these books are in the collections of prominent book collectors all over the world. Even once she was offered a residency at the house of a Canadian art collector who amongst other things collects blank ancient vellums and papers. She was offered to use any paper she might like from the collection while she did the residency with the collector getting First Dibs on the works she made with his paper. Sadly she did not go as her children were small at the same time and she did not want to leave them for long periods of time.