Featured Artist – Anagram For Ink

I’m Niko Silvester, and I love books. I seem always to have been reading books, and I’ve been trying to make them for almost as long. It wasn’t until the mid 90s that I started to get serious about learning bookbinding, but I didn’t have a teacher and had no idea what I was doing. I went ahead and did it anyway, and had some small success selling very basic blank journals and book jewelry (tiny books on earrings and necklaces) at craft fairs in St John’s, Newfoundland, where I lived at the time.

Fast forward a decade and I landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and learned how to make books properly. I also expanded into photography, printmaking and letterpress printing–all to be able to make better and more interesting books. Now I’m having another go at selling my work, both online and in the real world.

I have two Etsy shops and one ArtFire Shop. White Raven Arts on Etsy sells my art–lithographs, relief prints, intaglio prints, photography and artists books can all be found there, along with whatever other odds and ends I turn my hand to. Anagram for Ink on Etsy is where I sell stuff for other people to use. I have blank journals, letterpress cards and book jewelry, and I’m always happy to do custom work. My ArtFire shop, also called Anagram for Ink, combines everything I sell in my two Etsy shops.

Tags: handbound books, letterpress printmaking, linocut, printmaking, steampunk

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