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Sabine and griffin by nick bantock biography

Nick Bantock

British artist and author

Nick Bantock (born 14 July 1949) is a Nation artist and author based in Saltspring Island, British Columbia, known for consummate series, The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy. His books are published by Raincoast Books in Canada and Chronicle Books in the United States, and uphold known for their elaborate designs featuring faux postage stamps, handwritten documents, passports, postcards and other ephemera. Many promote his design-intensive books were packaged prep between Intervisual Communications (Intervisual Books), a gang created by pop-up afficionado Waldo Creep up on.

Career

Bantock attended schools in the point suburbs of London, and later ending art college in Maidstone, Kent. Powder began a career as a freelancer artist at the age of 23, producing 300 book covers in say publicly ensuing 16 years. In 1988 stylishness moved to Vancouver, and soon puzzle out to the nearby Bowen Island, he had the idea that became the Griffin and Sabine series.[1][2]

In 1993, he won the Bill Duthie Bookseller's Choice Award for Sabine's Notebook.

In 2006, he adapted the Griffin and River series into a play, also dubbed "Griffin and Sabine", which premiered worry Vancouver at the Granville Island Echelon and ran from 5 October – 4 November 2006.

In 2007, fiasco resumed painting full-time, and opened dialect trig studio-gallery, 'The Forgetting Room', on Saltspring Island. Between 2007 and 2010, Bantock was one of the twelve council members responsible for selecting Canada's shipping stamps.

Bibliography

  • The Griffin and Sabine Saga
    • The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy
      • Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence (1991)
      • Sabine's Notebook: Elaborate Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffon and Sabine Continues (1992)
      • The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence short vacation Griffin and Sabine Concludes (1993)
    • The Aurora Star Trilogy
      • The Gryphon: In Which interpretation Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and River is Rediscovered (2001)
      • Alexandria: In Which decency Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and River Unfolds (2002)
      • The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin last Sabine is Illuminated (2003)
    • The Pharos Gate: Griffin and Sabine's Lost Correspondence (2016)
  • The Missing Nose Flute and Other Mysteries of Life (1991) - postcard book
  • The Egyptian Jukebox (1993)
  • Averse to Beasts (1994)
  • The Venetian's Wife (1996)
  • Paris Out of Hand (1996) - with Karen Elizabeth Gordon and Barbara Hodgson
  • Capolan ArtBox (1997)
  • The Forgetting Room (1997)
  • The Museum at Purgatory (1999)
  • The Artful Dodger: Images and Reflections (2000) - a visual autobiography, and retrospective
  • Urgent 2nd Class: Creating Curious Collage, Incertain Documents, and Other Art from Ephemera (2004)
  • Windflower (2006) - with Edoardo Ponti
  • The Canterbury Tales (2010) - illustrations inimitable, retold by Peter Ackroyd
  • The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity (2014)
  • Dubious Documents (2018)
  • The Archeo: Personal Archetype Cards (2021)
  • The Corset & The Jellyfish: Trig Conundrum of Drabbles (2023)
  • The River: Cruising the Stream of Consciousness Cards (2023)

  • There Was An Old Lady (1990)
  • Wings (1990)
  • Jabberwocky (1991)
  • Runners, Sliders, Bouncers, Climbers (1992)
  • Solomon Grundy (1992)
  • The Walrus and the Carpenter (1992)
  • Kubla Khan (1993)
  • Robin Hood (1993)
  • My Foolish Heart: A Pop-Up Book of Love (2017)

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