There are certain days in a person’s life which can mark a change so dramatic that life is never quite the same again. Such a change happened to me in 1983, the day I walked into the archive department of the library in my home town of Halifax, in West Yorkshire.
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Shelf Portrait – what would yours be?
As a librarian I love books. So, no-one would be surprised that I have a lot of books nor that I might want to have pictures of books on my walls.
In 2018 I picked up a flyer for the Hebden Bridge Open Studio weekend, an event for any artist in the Upper Calder Valley to showcase their work. A picture of a bookshelf caught my eye, it was one of Roo Waterhouse’s wonderful Shelf Portraits at Northlight Studio in Hebden. I had to have one!
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