Jill Bergman ~ Colorado

Wild Flowers
By Jill Bergman
Steamboat Springs, Colorado: Jill Bergman, 2008. Edition of 5.

7 x 7 "; 8 pages. Accordion book. Hand-colored solar plate etchings, which combine photographs and drawing, are tipped onto the accordion backing. The accordion and covers are from paste paper. Photographs by Bergman except for the trillium, which was taken by Matt Irvin.

The detailed etchings and the delicate hand-coloring suggest fragility and ephemerality.

Jill Bergman: "The flower photos were taken near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in the foothills and passes around our valley."
$400

Plaid
By Jill Bergman
Steamboat Springs, Colorado: Jill Bergman, 2007. Edition of 15.

5.75 x 8.75"; 64 pages. Handbound in green cloth with an onlay of plaid. Title in painted wooden letters on cover. Plaid designs drawn from May 2006 to February 2007 on an iMac in Adobe Illustrator. Printed by an Epson Stylus Photo R2400 on Epson Double-sided Matte paper. Type: Smile ICG Medium.

"Plaid is the most beautiful color in the world." This statement introduces 51 fancifully-named plaids, from Everyone Always Wants Chocolate Cakes to Laugh Till You Pee.
$250

Putting Words in My Mouth:
A Selection of American Idioms
by Jill Bergman
2005. Edition of 15.

6.25 x 5.25 x 1.125", 30 illustrations, 24 text pages. Hand bound, single sheets of colored Canson Mi-Teintes sewn onto paper straps. Text printed on white matte paper. Bound in black bookcloth over boards with an illustrated inset on front cover. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Idioms that contain references to body parts visually and humorously illustrated.

Jill Bergman: "Word plays have been a constant thread through my work over the years. I've been clever in many different mediums and when I got a new big shiny computer it just looked like a new big shiny drawing tool. The images in Putting Words in My Mouth were drawn in Adobe Illustrator and printed with an ink-jet printer.

"I compiled the lists of idioms using body parts over a couple of years with a lot of help from friends. There were plenty of laughs visualizing them with literal interpretations. I did look in reference books toward the end to make sure I hadn't missed any but I discovered that they had missed a lot too. Idioms are always changing and this is a pretty comprehensive PG rated list from our time in the early 21st century."
$250

The Girl with the Pretty Red Hair
by Jill Bergman
2003. Edition of 50.

8 x 5.875". Hand bound, red Fabriano Tiziano pages sewn onto paper straps. 24 linocuts hand printed onto white Somerset Satin and then hand-colored. Black Fabriano Tiziano over boards with an exposed spine and linocut title inset. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Whimsical and pun-filled illustrations about a girl with pretty red hair.

Jill Bergman: "More than 10 years ago I made a tiny cut paper picture of The Girl with the Pretty Red Hair. I hung it by my bed and as I was falling asleep and waking up I would look at it. It didn't take long before I had drawn several more pictures of the pretty girl. That snowballed into a big stack of drawings based on puns, word plays and lots of hair jokes. I thought they should become a book but I didn't know how to go about it. Many years later I took my first bookbinding class which eventually led to this final version of The Girl with Pretty Red Hair."
$250