Jovial Woods Collection of Artists Books

Jovial Woods is a non-profit publishing project. JW was formed by artist Adam Higton in 2009 with the intent of exhibiting and displaying a large collection of exciting, exclusive, limited edition artists books from a wide variety of international artists, illustrators and musicians.  

J Woods intends to host a series of book browsing events, evenings and exhibitions at various libraries, village halls, art shops, churchyards, bookshops, cafes, gigs and mysterious woodland locations.

AH was recently interviewed by Anorak, The Happy Mag for kids about the collection, you can read it here

So far the following people are taking part and making their books...

Adam Higton 

Nadine Byrne

Luke Best 

Mandy Ure 

Alexander Tucker

Hattie Newman

Hakon Holm-Olsen

Marcus Oakley

Leanne Purton

Roberto Opalio

Maurizio Opalio

Merja Kokkonen 

Richard Sanderson

Jamie Malone 

Bart De Paepe

Paul Ramon Arscott

Roy Voss

Amy Rhian

Joel Croxson

Helene Norseth

Simon Peplow

Mogu Takahashi

Merijn Hos (bfree)

Andreas Samuelsson

Jad Fair

Sophie Kern

Luke Ramsey

the above drawing is by Marcus Oakley.

Full Website coming Dec/Jan 09/10, thanks.

For further information, jovialwoods@hotmail.com