Like many developments in the history of avant garde, artist's books have emerged from a variety of influences which established an aesthetic foundation for my work. If my expressive art forms push ideas just beyond habitual limits, it is because I have quintessentially, rather than incidentally, elevated the genre: Book As Art.

BIO

Since 1975 I have been sole owner and director of these businesses. Waterleaf Mill & Bindery established 1975. Pequeño Press established in 1983. Arizona Workshops established in 1990. California Workshops established in 2000. Austin Workshops established in 2005. The principal occupation of Pequeño Press is publishing limited edition, hand bound books. I have published over 55 editions in the last 20 years. I design, print and bind all the books that Pequeño Press releases with the help of apprentices who come from all over the world to work with me.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS

My hand bound, limited edition books are in many private and corporate collections and special collections libraries in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, France, Germany, England, Spain and Israel. I am twice winner of the Miniature Book Society Distinguished Book Award (1997 - "Queen Mab" and 2001 "Return to Paris"). The Norman Forgue Award for "Beauty" in 2002. My work is featured in these books: "Cover to Cover" by Shereen LaPlantz, "Handmade Books & Cards" by Jean Kropper, "Pages" by Linda Fry Kenzle and others.

EDUCATION:

Graduated Sacramento College, Sacramento CA, 1952 BA, Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles CA, 1954, UCLA, Los Angeles CA, 1958 MFA. I have studied Western and Eastern bookbinding with international masters: Ivar Robinson, Oxford, England 1984, Koichi No Ushi, Kyoto, Japan 1986, Manual de la Rosa, Mexico City, Mexico 1985.