Andie Thrams ~ California

Andie Thrams: "For many years I have worked in wild, often remote, western forests creating a collection of illuminated field journal pages that chronicle forest experiences with drawing, painting, and writing. The project coalesced during time spent as Artist in Residence in Glacier National Park, Montana, in 2001. Many more of the pages were made during the winter and spring months of 2004, when I lived and worked as Artist in Residence at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology on the Oregon coast. I began binding my field journal pages into a series of one-o-f-a-kind artists' books called In Forests while back at Sitka Center in 2007. Other pages continue to be created during the ongoing days and weeks I spend in forests from Alaska to California. ...

"Each folio (one sheet with a fold down the middle to create two pages) is grid-formatted in pencil before I go into the forest, but is otherwise unplanned and receives little or no alteration later. I use watercolor, ink, gouache, and pencil working directly on 100% cotton hot press watercolor paper in spontaneous response to the forest. I go out on foot carrying a pack full of whatever is needed to work outdoors for hours, days, or weeks at a time. The marks of fieldwork remain: rain spots, smudges, stains, odd wordings, misspellings, and other surprises. I sometimes work while standing, usually sitting on the ground, almost always in forests."

Andie Thrams: "Each unique volume measures 9.5 (high) x 8.75 (wide) x 0.75 (deep) inches, and measures 114 inches when fully extended. They are accordion bound in a unique case structure that can be handheld and read like a book as well as opening up accordion-fashion so as to see all pages at once. Each book is made of seven original folios ... connected with paste-painted tyvek strips, and case bound into boards covered with paste-painted tyvek and book cloth. All writing and imagery is rendered by hand."

In Forests: Volume XXXII A Queenly Mossy Place
By Andie Thrams
Coloma, California: Andrea L. Thrams, 2012. One-of-a-Kind.

9.5 x 8.75 x .75" closed, extends to 114"; 30 pages. Double-sided accordion fold extending from back pastedown. Watercolor, gouache, and ink on rag paper. Bound with paste-painted tyvek and rayon bookcloth covered boards. Slipcased. Signed by the artist.

Andie Thrams: "IN FORESTS is an ongoing series of artist books about the time I spend in wild forests. This volume holds pages I made in June and July, 2012, at the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies Peterson Bay Field Station on Kachemak Bay, Alaska. During my month as artist in residence in that remote coastal rainforest, I worked outdoors each day using ink, pencil, watercolor and gouache on folios of hotpress watercolor paper. I used proportions inspired by medieval manuscripts to format each folio, but the content was otherwise unplanned and completed spontaneously while I was in the field. The traces of fieldwork remain: rain and paint spatters, stains, debris, and other forest marks."

I sit in a queenly mossy place. New tiny ferns unfurl at my feet. A hermit thrush performs above me, and suddenly flits close by to show off its subtle forest-colored feathers. A breeze keeps blowing the mosquitoes away and clouds and mist come and go, with a few raindrops between bright sunny moments. I couldn’t wish for anything more than THIS HERE NOW.

$2,900

Volume I: Time in the Trees Unavailable
Volume II: Meandering in Yosemite’s Big Trees $400
Volume XXXI: Realms Beyond $2900
Volume XXXII: A Queenly Mossy Place $2900

Andie Thrams: "FIELD STUDIES is an ongoing series of unique artist's books and paintings drawn, written, and painted in the field using twig, brush, pencil, and pen. Each book illuminates one wild species or habitat with text often addressing grief over environmental degradation and habitat loss."

Aster sibiricus (All the Time in the World)
By Andie Thrams
Coloma, California: Andrea L. Thrams, 2010. One-of-a-Kind.

Unique case-bound accordion-folding artists' book of eight folios with imagery front and back in a matching folding paper case. 5.125 x 3.325 x 1", 26 inches (wide) fully extended. Media: written and painted with brushes, sticks, colored pencils, and pens using ink, wheat paste, watercolor, gouache, shell gold, and gold leaf on Arches Text Wove (Velin) paper and tyvek. Laid in case of Cave Paper with (hidden) magnet closure.

Andie Thrams: "This book was made in the forest near Surprise Cove in western Prince William Sound, Alaska. I go into wild forests for hours, days, or weeks at a time. While there I work in ink, pencil, watercolor, and gouache on paper. Content is otherwise unplanned and is completed spontaneously while I am outdoors. The traces of fieldwork remain: rain and paint spatters, stains, debris, and other forest marks."
$720

Populus fremontia var. wislizenii (Cottonwood)
By Andie Thrams
Coloma, California: Andrea L. Thrams, 2012. One-of-a-Kind.

5.125 x 3.325 x 1", opens to 26". Unique case-bound accordion-folding artists' book of eight folios with imagery front and back in a matching folding paper case. Media: written and painted with brushes, sticks, colored pencils, and pens using ink, watercolor, gouache, and gold leaf on Arches Text Wove (Velin) paper. Laid in case of Cave Paper.

Andie Thrams: "This book was made along the bosque of the Rio Grande and Box Canyon near Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. I go into wild forests for hours, days or weeks at a time. While there I work in ink, pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper. Content is otherwise unplanned and is completed spontaneously while I am outdoors. The traces of fieldwork remain: rain and paint spatters, stains, debris, and other forest marks."
$720

Titles no longer available by Andie Thrams:

Volume III: To Begin SOLD
Volume IV: The Calligraphy of Twigs & Trees SOLD
Volume V: Like the Heartbeat of a Tree SOLD
Volume VI: All So Green SOLD
Volume VII: The Gloaming SOLD
Volume VIII: Time to Go SOLD
Volume IX: On and On SOLD
Volume X: This Forest These Trees SOLD
Volume XI: Everywhere and All Around SOLD
Volume XII: Shuyak Island Enchantment SOLD
Volume XIII: The Dazzle and Delight SOLD
Volume XIV: Great Northern SOLD
Volume XV: Happy to Walk In SOLD
Volume XVI: Great and Graceful SOLD
Volume XVII: The Ground Falls Away SOLD
Volume XVIII: Natural History (Catkins) SOLD
Volume XIX: No Real Answer SOLD
Volume XX: Wild Aliveness SOLD
Volume XXI: Found, Again SOLD
Volume XXII: We Live Here SOLD
Volume XXIII: How Altered is Vision? SOLD
Volume XXIV: A Vision Made Real SOLD
Volume XXV: Nightfall Moonrise SOLD
Volume XXVI: Knowing the Edges SOLD
Volume XXVII: Walking Near Them SOLD
Volume XXVIII: Fall Into, Dwell Amongst SOLD
Volume XXX: Sinking Into It All SOLD
Volume XXXIII: Not Knowing SOLD
Volume XXIX: Re-Enchanted SOLD