I have just put most of the images from my latest botanical on my website. Lava Gardens was created after my month-long stay in Iceland this July. The days were long, the travel extensive. I had so many new photos that instead of revising the book Plontu Handbokin (my first botanical from Iceland), I made an entirely new one. You can see most of the images here:http://web.me.com/nettles3/Pay_on_Demand_Books/Lava_Gardens.html
It will be spiral bound. It sells, like all of my other botanicals, for $28 plus shipping.

I will be giving a lecture on October 26 in Asheville. Here is the link. If you are in the North Carolina area, I hope to see you there!http://www.ashevillebookworks.com/tag/photography/

The new home for this two volume set is the Rare Book & Special Colllections Library at the University of Washington in Seattle. These two books were completed in the darkest days last winter. I am very pleased that they have been acquired by this impressive collection.

Tomorrow is the final day for the seminar on artists’ books that I have been teaching for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science here at the University of Illinois. This is the group during our tour to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

I will be teaching a collage book workshop on September 25 in Cincinnati. http://www.cincinnatibookarts.org/ Return Trips will also be on view at Prairie Gallery from September 20-October 3.

Rick Wester Fine Art has received positive reviews of his current exhibition, BIG GIRLS: Large Format Photographs by Women Photographers. Included is a piece by William Meyers in the Wall Street Journal from July 3, 2010:

Bea Nettles’s “Hair Loss, 2007″ is large format only because it consists of 12 photographs, each 4 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches, strung together to make a book 84 1/2 inches wide when fully open. Ms. Nettles (born 1946) photographed herself after she lost her hair as a result of chemotherapy. The stark black-and-white images show her from the neck up, bald and with various hair possibilities. Her expression is grimly stoic as she contemplates the options.

The show comes down July 30.
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I am currently in Iceland, where the National and University Library has added several of my books to their collection. Now included in this rare book collection is “Mind and Memory,” made in 2007 during a residency I spent in Iceland.http://web.mac.com/nettles3/Icelandic_Residency%3A_Books/Mind_%26_Memory.html Also a copy of Fate, Being and Necessity, and my Plontu Handbokin: An Artist’s Guide to the Wildflowers of Iceland.

http://www.nyphotoreview.com/NYPR_REVS/NYPR_REV440.htmlHere is a link to a review of the group show that my book, “Hair Loss” is being shown in this summer in NYC. “the artist’s book “Hair Loss (2007)” by Bea Nettles, documenting the artist’s struggle against cancer in a series of head-on self portraits, is small, concise and entirely unsentimental.”

My latest botanical book is available online at Lulu http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/barkers-creek-an-artists-guide-to-north-carolina-wildflowers/11256070?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/2 This book contains spring wildflowers from North Carolina.

All five of my botanical books are now being produced with spiral bindings for durability and ease of use in the field. Iceland, Illinois, Italy, Ireland and most recently Florida wildflowers. You can order the books at LULU.com.http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?fListingClass=0&fSearch=bea+nettles Samples of the images can be seen on my website here:http://web.me.com/nettles3/Pay_on_Demand_Books/Plontu_Handbokin%3A_An_Artists_Guide_to_the_Wildflowers_of_Iceland.html