An occasional series of paintings on the covers of found books including a 1931 edition of The Wind In The Willows recently found in a skip…

Painting On found Books 1 – The Wind In The Willows – 18x24cm. The first in what I suspect will be an occasional series of paintings on the front over of found books.

This one is painted on the dust jacket of a rather beauitful 1930 edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in The Willows, it is painted on the front cover, a compination of acrylic paint, ink pen work and gloss varnish. The book is signed and dated by the artist on the back cover and of course you can still read it…

I found the book in a skip about a year ago and immediately thought I wanted to do something with it. I love the worn loved feel of this book, I adore that Muriel E Baker wrote her name in ink inside in July 1931.

Painting On found Books 2 – The Case Of The Half-Wakened Wife… 24x18cm

The second in what I suspect will be an occasional series of paintings on the front cover of found books.

This one is painted on the cover of an old Penguin paperback 1962 edition of Eric Stanley Gardener’s The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife. A perry Mason story. A 1956 publication and a well read copy of a classic Penguin paperback

The book is painted on the front cover, a combination of acrylic paint, ink pen work and gloss varnish. The book is sigmed and dated by the artist on the back cover and of course you can still read it…

I found the book on a wall in Hackney a couple of weeks ago…

I expect there will be more soon, I am being very picky about it all though, has to be the right book…