Helen O'Connor

Hand embossed red Italian leather bought by artist in Fabriano, Italy.

Leather tooling embossed with found objects - top of a beater and head of a key.

Handmade paper pages show decal edge.

Handmade pigmented flax and cotton paper with swan feather and magpie feather. Sewn in with linen thread and stinging nettle thread.

Handmade flax paper. The image is of a great Oak tree standing outside the big house at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland.

Audio

This book was inspired by a walk through the Yukon boreal forest where it is quite common to come across large piles of moose scat. The moose scat inclusions give the book its name and texture.

 Hemp and flax handmade paper with raw hemp fibre inclusions.