Prince George artist, Pat Klassen, creates images on book edges and features the classic Lest We Forget silhouette of a soldier that will be donated to Legion 43 in time for Remembrance Day.
She’s retired and she doesn’t knit or crochet and that’s all it took for a local artist to turn to fore-edge book art to discover a pastime where she can explore her creativity in a unique way.
It starts with Klassen hunting through all the thrift stores in Prince George for hardcover books that have about 300 pages, have a good spine, and are 21 or 23 cm in height. She likes to upcycle used books, she explained.Klassen has software to get a spreadsheet where she can stretch an image over 15 pages.Then she takes her trusty rotary cutter and starts the process of cutting those 15 pages into 150 strips in total.
“This type of artwork is not something a lot of people would do,” Klassen said. “But I have got something about books and paper and cutting and it just slipped into my life. I have made more art than I could ever sell. People just haven’t seen it and I’m not one to put myself out there.”
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