Pictorial Rambles on the John Muir Trail: Miniatures by Donna and Peter Thomas PDF; VIEW pre-installation technical processes, including fabricating custom miniature book mounts
Makers of artists’ books employing a wide range of techniques and book formats, artists and book makers Donna Thomas (b. 1957) and Peter Thomas (b. 1954) have been publishing books since the 1970s. Collaborating with celebrated writers and fellow artists and employing innovative book-making strategies, the Thomases have been awarded honors for papermaking and bookbinding. In a series of beautiful miniature books published in very small numbers, Donna and Peter Thomas document the natural world they encounter when hiking and camping in northern California. In these unusual travel books, Donna’s calligraphy and paintings of landscapes, wildflowers, and occasionally traveling companions are printed on paper handmade by Peter; the pages are expertly and sumptuously bound, including leather spines in some instances and miniature slipcases in others. Colophons for each book describe the artists’ process and sometimes thank fellow travelers for waiting while paintings of wildflowers, mountains, or waterfalls were completed. Part memento, part travel narrative, part field guide, the Thomas miniatures marry artistic practice and skilled paper- and bookmaking with natural observation and the traveler’s daily dairy.
Miniature books by Donna and Peter Thomas, 2001-2016
Objects
Spring Wildflower ABC
Zm 72
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Wildflowers of the John Muir Trail
Zm 71
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Mineral King Kern Loop
Zm 70
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Nature paints
Zm 68
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Bathed in such beauty
Zm 73
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Landscapers of the John Muir Trail
Zm 69
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John Muir Trail:
Zm 67
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Covering Ground
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