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I'm designing my latest Sushi Sketchbook: these slips
of paper laid out on my desk represent double-page spreads. Considering
that the whole point of Sushi is that it's raw and freshly
prepapred, I seem to be spending ages filleting and rearranging
my drawings. |
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postage stamp-sized picture, glued or stapled to the slips, is a thumbnail
image of a sketch that I've scanned from my Norfolk sketchbooks.
Someday I'll come back with a sketchbook that I'll turn into a Sushi
title without any editing or rearranging but I feel that to tell the story
of Norfolk properly I need to group the drawings according to the places
I visited: the cottage garden, the coast and the village church of All
Saints. In the writing - not that there's much space for writing amongst
all those drawings - I need to evoke some of what I felt when I was drawing
in this quiet corner of rural Norfolk, at the edge of the world, as it
seemed to me.
The serpents and snakes, fossils and fish that I drew, set against a
backdrop of quiet woodland and coast, are what made me decide to call
this booklet Saints and Serpents. 
Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk
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