Involved in the Book Format – Through the Sketchbook

‘Each sketchbook is usually devoted to one particular media, such as graphite, or watercolors.’ -Margaret Neill

Margaret Neill is also, ‘very involved in the book format, one page to the next in sequence and also the idea of the spread‘ [2 facing pages] and the spine. ‘Working in sketchbooks allows me to see what comes up organically without any predetermined notion of expectation.’

‘The found books are another series. I mostly use dictionaries and a Lincoln Library [of essential information], responding to the grid on the page and the idea of a vehicle of information. What is interesting to me is the beginning, middle, and end, as in a book that one reads.‘

Materials – Various

Artist: Margaret Neill

Margaret Neill Studio Web Site

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.