Blue Ridge Mountain Books Journal by Erin Keane

Materials: panoramic mountain landscape preserved in encaustic beeswax, topographic maps for end papers, hand-torn pages sewn with waxed linen thread, Coptic binding, artist-designed Weave Stitch (large journals) 3.5"x2.5

Erin Keane is a recipient of the Craft Futures Fund Relief grant Cohort 2025. Erin Keane is an artist working with photography, encaustic beeswax, and bookbinding. In photography, she explores the elasticity of light, and creates luminous paintings with photographic brushstrokes and layers of encaustic. In bookbinding, she explores innovative bindings and stitches, and designs encaustic book sculptures and journals to honor books as an art form.