Local Claremore artist Gerry Mooney will be having a book-signing and linoleum printing demonstration for his new illustrated edition of Charles Dickens’s epic novel BLEAK HOUSE on Saturday, May 3 at 2PM, at The Same Page bookstore, 514 W. Will Rogers Blvd., Claremore.
Mooney spent five years creating forty new linoprint illustrations for BLEAK HOUSE, considered by many to be Dickens’s greatest novel. It tells the story of an interminable court case, Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, and the way whole generations are swept up and destroyed by a heartless court system, the Court of Chancery.
The artist will do a reading from the book and will do a live demonstration of the linoleum printing process, a block-printing method that involves carving an image into a block of linoleum, then rolling ink onto it and pressing a sheet of paper upon it to create a series of copies. As a completely hand-made medium, no two prints are exactly alike.
A full set of original linoleum prints for the book will be on display, and copies of the book will be available for purchase.
