SQUEAKY BINDERS
Botanical Illustration - Cyclamen
Where art, nature and science meet.
6 Designs
Leaf Front, Plant, Leaf Back, Flower Dissection, Tuber and Roots, Flower Cross section
Available as
Illustrated Notebook
A handy sized wire bound notebook containing 6 ‘Cyclamen'’ illustrations with blank, lined and squared pages for all your notes - makes a great gift too.
For gardeners, Botanists and plant lovers everywhere this beguiling collection of 6 beautiful Botanical Illustrations depicts an exquisite mini Cyclamen and feature throughout this handy notebook.
Width - 140mm (including binding) Height - 130mm Depth - 13mm
82 Pages (164 sides) - 19 blank, 128 lined, 5 squared, 6 double page spreads with illustrations.
Printed locally in Cornwall on sustainably sourced paper.
Squeaky’s Special Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our Special Edition handmade Notebook has a truly distinctive hard case cover containing all the ‘Cyclamen’ illustrations and pages inside ready to be filled with all your lovely words.
For gardeners, Botanists and plant lovers everywhere this beguiling collection of 6 beautiful Botanical Illustrations depicts an exquisite mini Cyclamen. Learn more…
This charming little ‘Cyclamen’ handmade Special Edition notebook is very special. Our unique cover design has a square window containing one of the six botanical illustrations protected by an acrylic cover which is held in place with solid copper or brass rivets. The whole case is covered with a delightful green bookcloth.
Inside, we use complementary eye-catching handmade paisley design endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 27 blank, 121 lined and 5 squared pages with all of the ‘Cyclamen’ illustrations spaced at intervals throughout.
We also add a multi-coloured, hand dyed page marker ribbon so you’ll never lose your place and smart headbands complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
“...for storytellers, yarn spinners, novelists, family journalers, bards, poets, hopeless romantics, doodling daydreamers, memory keepers, jotters, scribblers, scrawlers and every other imaginable creative writer and fabulous wordsmith - whoever you are! ”
Such an artful gift for creative journal makers who appreciate the natural world.
Postcards
‘Cyclamen’ designs available as set of 6 Postcards.
For gardeners, Botanists and plant lovers everywhere this beguiling collection of 6 beautiful Botanical Illustrations depicts an exquisite mini Cyclamen. Learn more…
A lovely set of 6 Postcards - one of each design - presented in an attractive drawstring organza bag.
Our 150mm x 150mm Postcards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper in an organza Bags - 195mm x 295mm in size.
Squeaky Binders ‘Cyclamen’ range is a compelling blend of science and art - its blooming marvellous!
Art Cards Wallet Gift Set
Complete set of 6 Art Cards presented in a lovely folding wallet for storing and display.
For gardeners, Botanists and plant lovers everywhere this beguiling collection of 6 beautiful Botanical Illustrations depicts an exquisite mini Cyclamen. Learn more…
This special Gift Set offers you all 6 Art Cards, one of each design, presented in our new beautiful folding wallet to keep them safe and to display proudly on any writing desk.
Our 150mm x 150mm Art Cards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper, blank inside and supplied with 155mm x 155mm brown Kraft envelope, wrapped in a clear sleeve.
Squeaky Binders ‘Cyclamen’ range is a compelling blend of science and art - it’s blooming marvellous!
Squeaky’s First Choice Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our First Choice Edition handmade notebook contains all the ‘Cyclamen’ illustrations with plenty of room inside for all your creative writings - makes a great gift too.
For gardeners, Botanists and plant lovers everywhere this beguiling collection of 6 beautiful Botanical Illustrations depicts an exquisite mini Cyclamen. Learn more…
Peep under its distinctive dust jacket to discover this charming little ‘Cyclamen’ handmade First Choice Edition notebook is covered with a delightful leaf green bookcloth.
Inside, we use our own in-house designed ‘Squeaky Binders’ endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 27 blank, 121 lined and 5 squared pages with all of the ‘Cyclamen’ illustrations spaced at intervals throughout and smart headbands complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
“...for storytellers, yarn spinners, novelists, family journalers, bards, poets, hopeless romantics, doodling daydreamers, memory keepers, jotters, scribblers, scrawlers and every other imaginable creative writer and fabulous wordsmith - whoever you are! ”
Such an artful gift for creative journal makers and green fingered gardeners who appreciate the natural world.
Inspiration and technique
I was awarded a Certificate in Botanical Illustration with Distinction from the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh - a course which included graphite and watercolour
“Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start…
…when you sing you begin with do-re-mi”
When you draw you begin with H, F and B!
Apologies for my reimagined song lyrics but -
when I started my studies, understanding and practising the basics before attempting anything more advanced, was indeed a very good place to start. How exciting it was though to open a brand new tin of pristine graphite pencils, sharpening to a fine point and then carefully making each precise mark.
Really pleased with my ‘pencil wheel’ layout which I designed myself - makes a good companion alongside classic colour wheels if you are looking for ways to get started yourself.
‘…Fa-So-La-Ti-Do…’
Here’s one of my pencil sketches from the course. It features a study of the flowers of the mini cyclamen plant, drawn to scale, from tight bud to fully open. It shows a good range of graphite tones and gives a fascinating little insight into the stages of how these flowers open.
I soon discovered the vast amount of patience and observational skills required for this type of illustration. It is not to be underestimated but the appreciation of nature’s infinite beauty I gained was so rewarding and to be able to share it through my work, amazing!
I hope the next time you see one of these cheerful little plants you’ll make the time to take a second even more closer look and think just how truly remarkable they actually are as I do.
“…a cyclamen that looks like a flight of butterflies, frozen for a single, exquisite moment in the white heart of Time…”
- Beverley Nichols, Down the Garden Path
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