With time on Point Reyes in CA, I fell in love with the gnarly giants that posed on the landscape. Drawing these statuesque trees was imperative. Humans and trees are constantly competing for space, especially the Monterey Cypress.

A Book created by CB Sherlock.

This book is a result of several years exploring the Yellowstone River and reflecting on my lifelong connection to it. I would travel along the river, stopping at fishing access points where I'd take photos, draw the river shoreline, look at the colors, and experience the sun overhead. Back at my studio I figured out the correct paper, brush, and pens before drawing each location. With the drawings I started writing. I started with words like KINSHIP, ENVIRONMENT, AND CHARACTER. Each word inspired a vignette, a tale about the river, or just a fact about me that had brought me back to this river again and again. I had ten drawings in the end, ten stories. 

Turning these into a book was originally overwhelming. So I decided to make a smaller project. Use one drawing, but several stories that would fit together. The book, Finally, is the result. The center page is one of the first drawings of the yellow sandstone bluff along the Yellowstone River. I divided my chosen text into four parts. Two layouts are the first and third sections with text, sun motifs, and handwritten text to alluding to the river of the primary image. It is a book of the shoreline, the water, and the brilliant sun.

Size of Book: 11.5” x 10”

Edition Size: 23 books
(18 standard, 5 unique)

Year Produced: 2023

After reading this book, people ask, who is Rose? Rose was one of my favorite friends who shared my love of Montana and the Yellowstone River. This love that I shared is what has continually brought me back to the Yellowstone River year after year. 

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Covid anxiety and the calm that comes with sketching, this small unnumbered drum leaf book of 5 sketches is 7 x 7 inches.

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Three artists, Julie Baugnet, Richard Stephens and CB Sherlock spent a day at Chateau Laréole. Their objective was to sketch the area and building. the light turned the chateau’s stripes a dusty pink and the hills tees and grounds a brilliant green.

A Day Elsewhere: Chateau Laréole was printed on the blue press in the basement of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Created with the support, guidance and opinions of Julie, Richard and Kathy Fenske. Kathryn Bishop helped with distilling the the paragraph from La Bourse, a short story by Honoré de Balzac. Pete Talbot laser cut paper — Sehishu and Gesenshi for the chine collé technique used. These papers were hand colored, while the pink stripes were relief printed. The Leather clamshell boxes were produced by bookbinder, Dennis Ruud in pink. The linen clamshell boxes were produced by Olli (@Ollimadethis).

Size of Book: 9.25” x 12”

Edition Size: 18 books

CiaLinen Bookcloth Clamshell

Pink Leather Clamshell

Year Produced: 2021

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Garden Remnants is a suite of three prints. They reflect how sheltering-in-place opens eyes to the surrounding things usually overlooked.

In the year of Covid, everyone was asked to quarantine themselves. As I did this I looked to objects around me for inspiration. I was drawn to items left behind in the garden, the old Hosta leaves, and in my studio, the metal type from last year’s project. The leaves were hydrated, laminated and using a chine colle´ technique, they were printed on Rives BFK under picked-through type from another project.

They are housed in a linen covered portfolio.

Size of Book: 20” x 14.5”

Edition Size: 5

Year Produced: 2020

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Collections: Minneapolis Central Library

BLUE is a nontraditional book of quotes by historic environmentalists about humans in relationship with our world. The quotes are building blocks for our behavior on this earth. Water, sky and trees are the represented backgrounds.

It consists of four 4 inch cubes, of relief and letterpress blue prints. Bernhard Modern Bold font and Kozo-Shi paper are used. They sit on a blue tray under a plexiglass vitrine.

The cubes were constructed with the help of Ruby Thompson.

Author: Wendell Berry, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Jane Goodall, Carl Sagan

Size of Book: 4.5” x 8.5“ x 4.5” with 4- 4” x 4” x 4” boxes

Edition Size: 10

Year Produced: 2019

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5 in Tours was printed in the summer of 2018 by Julie Baugnet, Richard Stephens and CB Sherlock. Each artist has a three page spread of sketches of Tours, France after joining forces with the Twin Cities Urban Sketchers, Tours Urban Sketchers and the community for a weekend. The prints were letterpress printed at Minnesota Center for Book Arts on Rives BFK using photopolymer plates. The binding is Drum Leaf with grey book boards covers screen printed by Julie Baugnet.

Artists: Julie Baugnet, Kathy Fenske, Cris Franchevich, CB Sherlock, and Richard Stephens

Size of Book: 5” x 5”

Edition Size: 45

Year produced: 2018

Cost: $45

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Collections: Library of Congress, Minnesota History Society

The wildwood, where Dialogue: A Midsummer Night’s Dream takes place, is an entity of its own. Here, CB Sherlock experiences fairies over and over again; Literary nonsense. The wildwood not only houses the fairies. The mechanicals camp. Lovers find shelter as they travel to Athens. Much happens under its boughs ---and the woods become image.

The forest is the set of the play---the trees abound. Dragonflies, June beetles, butterflies and fireflies flit through the pages as the fairies flit through the play.

This book is letterpress printed on a Vandercook No.219 with Caslon Old Style metal type from H&M Foundry. Double and single page illustrations are relief printed on both sides of the page in eight color runs using linoleum and polymer plates.

The binding is an open spine sewn over walnut dyed paper cords that encircle a tree branch. Mary Hark paper, flax and linen fiber, is used for the covers. The standard edition is housed in a slipcase while the deluxe sits in a double tray box accompanied by a Setting print.

Author: William Shakespeare

Size of Book: 22” x 4.5”

Edition Size: 30 books; 7 Deluxe, 23 Standard

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Collections: Library of Congress, University of Minnesota, Carleton College, Hennepin County Central Library, University of Texas, El Paso, St John’s University, Anderson Center at Tower View, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kenyon College, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, University of Washington, Seattle

Midsummer a graphic essay of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was printed at Red Dragonfly Press during an artist residency at the Anderson Center at Tower View in Red Wing, Minnesota. Images drawn by CB Sherlock during an artist residency in Salzburg, Austria.

Imagine the fairies are dragonflies lightning bugs and fireflies.

Artist: CB Sherlock

Size of Book: 3" x 4.5”

Edition Size: 75 Books

Year produced: 2015

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Collections: Minnesota History Society

Being Elsewhere: Salzburg is a folio of ten Ink drawing from my Salzburg Artist Residency.

After a rainy July in Austria, they were printed letterpress printed using a technique called chine-collé at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in the fall of 2014. Rives BFK, polymer plates, metal type and wheat paste were the materials used. This unbound book is housed in a clamshell box.

Size of Book: 10” x 10” prints

Edition Size: 7 Books

Year Produced: 2014

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Collections: Library of Congress, Butler Library and University of MN, Elmer L. Anderson Library

CB Sherlock’s attention was caught by the dry humor and politically inclined poeticism of Ann Filemyr. Her poem, The Vowels: A Congregation of Preachers invites laugher, contemplation and a wake up call to the power within each unique individual and to be found within our communities. The unusual yet familiar cubular format engages the reader, allowing them to be an active participant in the telling of the story that Filemyr has to offer.

Materials: Each of the five stanzas of the poem are letterpress printed on Thai Mulberry. The vowels are printed with the Minnesota Center for Book Arts collection of wood type. It is then carefully folded and stitched into a 3-inch origami cubes. It is housed in an embossed library board box.

Author: Ann Filemyr

Size: 3” x 3” x 15”, with 3” x 3” x 3” cubes

Edition Size: 45 Books

Year produced: 2013

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Collections: Columbia University, Butler Library, University of Washington, Minnesota Historical Society, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Gund Library, Gould Library, Carleton College, Denison University