With the help of friends Cecile Lindstedt and Tracy Strong, and four grants from the Putnam Arts Council, I devised, edited, illustrated for and published four volumes of The Art Garden Vista, a hand-colored, limited-edition anthology of the best Art Garden writings. My interest in handmade books abides. In 1995 I began formal study at the Center for Book Arts in New York City. My books have been featured in shows in New York and elsewhere.

These are pictures of some of the books I made after studying at the Center for Book Arts in New York City.

1. WHITMAN'S SAMPLER: Box 2 ¾"x 3 3/8", books 1"x ¾" Hand-painted paper, gocco-printed.
2. Detail of The Codicils, by Jane Roberts: 64" x 20" Japanese stick ink and 22Kt-Gold lettered on chamois, with bamboo and leather supports.
3. GLORIA: Book 3 ½" x 6", Folding Box 4"x 6 ½". Handtooled, incised and dyed aluminum, stitched with metal thread, adorned with beads in a box using silk, rayon and velvet.
4. BOOK O'CLOCK: 5"x 3 ¼" Japanese binding cloth, quartz clock, Twinrocker paper, gocco printed with rubber stamps.
5. THE COOKIE THAT MOVES IS A GIRL: incised neon plexi cover, copitic bound "window" pages of aluminum incised, dyed and stitched to mylar. Text by artist.
6. CIRCLES: 31/2" diameter. Illustrated hand-colored quotations of Emerson printed in xerox, handcut
7. CHANGE OF RESIDENCE: Portfolio 13"x 19" Web-book 30"x 6" Japanese stick ink, iridescent thread, Twinrocker paper, japanese bookcloth, Italian marbled paper
8. GREEN AND GROWING: 7 ½" x 6" Artist's text xeroxed on watercolor paper, hand-colored, Japanes bookcloth, Italian marbled paper
9. I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY: 20"x 28"x 14" Plexiglass, mylar, bamboo, oil crayon of Emily Dickinson poem