Bizz Fretty
Fore-edge Painting
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Open to the public
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Provides courses or training
Yes
Available for craft fairs
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Bizz Fretty
About
Martin comes from an artistic family; his father was a portrait painter and his mother managed an art store. He trained in Theatre Design, working on large-scale backdrops and costumes, then to graphics in the newspaper trade, but eventually found his niche when his friend Don Noble showed him how to create magical vanishing Fore-edge Paintings.
A vanishing fore-edge painting is where the leaves of a book are fanned and an image applied to the stepped surface.
If the page edges are gilded or marbled, the painting miraculously disappears when the book is relaxed. When the book is fanned again it magically re-appears!