Three Panels & a Display case

In front of three panels of Christopher's papers at the exhibition in 2006 at the University of Washington.

Fine Tuning

A slight delay on entries do to major work on putting a collection of Christopher's finest work in order with the help of the marbler Vi Wilson from Australia who especially came to help me with this huge task, nonstop work for long five days. So once again I say I'll add to the entry but now I have to collect my thoughts and leave you with a few pictures of the sorting job.

Until the next entry

A thank you

to you who write comments that always encourage me to add something else. I always think there may be nothing else I could add but then when you write I feel joy and try finding something I had not shown. I thank you for wanting to see more, Ingrid

Temporary entry

To create a new entry seems more difficult over time because much has been shown and shared but then an idea developes and that energy is wonderful. This is to say my brain is working on hopefully an interesting addition but having first to reread previous entries so not to repeat myself. This is also an opportunity to wish everyone a good and creative New Year. It is so wonderful for me to be in touch with so many marblers.

With best wishes, Ingrid

Bullseye

Every marbler who encounters extreme fluctuations with weather, from moist to suddenly very

dry knows about paper turning too dry and dust problems unless you have a controlled environment. It was a constant struggle for Christopher in this climate so when it was a perfect day for marbling after having prepared papers and colors days ahead it was a joy for him when everything worked. This 18X24 piece was one of those days. No intention for achieving patterns that day but to see how the colors worked.

Steps to Paris

In 1985 Christopher was asked to contribute if possible a modern design for an exhibition in Paris to be shown in December 1985. As many marblers achieve a pattern by continuous steps arriving at the desired pattern it never occured to me to show how Chris arrived at his final paper he named Paris for the exhibition until I explained it to Vi Wilson, a marbler from Australia who was visiting me and who said it was very interesting to see how he arrived at the final design. I decided to show the 4 papers (approx.size 19"x 25")that let up to the one he decided is the one.

So here is the first attempt above. I do not recall over how many weeks or month his attempts took at arriving what he hoped to achieve. Here another step above.I remember at this point he started to like what he had created but felt it wasn't modern enough.This lovely pattern was shown on the cover for the Second International Marblers'Gathering Exhibition in San Francisco, 1992. If I remember correctly he nearly felt he had it with the one above but the background was too busy so he marbled on to arrive finally at Paris below. Exhibited in Les Arts Du Livre d'Hier a Demain (Atelier d'Arts Appliques du Vesinet) Honorary degree for "Paris" paper. Exhibiton shown at the Museum of Luxembourg, Paris. In March of 2011 when Vi Wilson returned for 6 days to help me categorize Christopher's work for a collection and detailing works we noticed there were many attemptet steps to arrive at the final design and as we talked about how he went about it she wrote: "These papers were not created by successive over-marbling, but the different elements ( leaves, flowers etc.) were progressively added to the previous layer/s of color/pattern on the size. The completed pattern was then transferred to a sheet of paper". Vi Wilson