Ian Boyden

Crab Quill Press
Walla Walla, WA
Ian Boyden¡¯s fascination with materials, industrial processes, text and the calligraphic line led him to China where he studied history and the practice of Chinese calligraphy, painting and bookmaking with masters of those arts. He worked for Walla Walla Foundry where he learned to cast, weld and chase bronze, and in Portland with Kathy Kuehn at Salient Seedling Press to learn letterpress printing and a variety of bindings. He founded Crab Quill Press to produce limited-edition, fine press artist books and in 1998, moved the Press to Walla Walla where he also works as the director of the Sheehan Art Gallery at Whitman College.

Twenty Views of Cascade Head
2001
Edition of 10
Collaborative artists¡¯ book: a viewing experience mediated by four ¡°guides¡±.
Poems by Ian Boyden and Jennifer Boyden, set in Perpetua and printed on Hahnemuhle Copperplate; drypoint and aquatint prints by Frank Boyden and Charles Chu; binding is a variation of Gary Frost¡¯s sewn boards; covers are lacewood (Cardwellia sublimes); encased in a Solander box adorned with an original copperplate from the book: 8.75 x 7 x 1 inches.
Special note: book produced for the dedication of the Charles Chus Asian Art Reading Room in the Charles E. Shain Library, Connecticut College, New London, Ct.
Segments Along a Horizon
One-of-a-kind book (not editioned)
Sequence of nine original paintings by Ian Boyden with excerpts from Ralph Waldo Emerson¡¯s Nature (1836). Painted on Hahnemuhle Copperplate; text set in Centaur and Gill Sans, letterpress-printed; drum-leaf binding features wooden covers of black limba wood and a leather spine; encased in a silk and cork-lined Solander box: 9 x 15 inches.