Printing
My work is making hand crafted, limited edition books and prints. I illustrate with engraved acrylic, wood or lino blocks, printed using a variety of vintage printing presses at the Incline Press workshop. The text is composed of hand set metal type, printed onto letterpress papers which I sew and bind with various decorative covers.
I seek to work in the tradition of hand made, private press printing and publishing, a somewhat uphill task in a digital world that is forgetting the tactile joy of books. Learning and practicing the wide range of skills and processes needed to make and share a letterpress publication, and keeping the vintage machines and tools in working order, is a passion I hope you will support by purchasing work from my shop.
To paraphrase the artist and teacher Enid Marx, not everyone can be an artist, but anyone can be a patron and supporter of the arts.
I seek to work in the tradition of hand made, private press printing and publishing, a somewhat uphill task in a digital world that is forgetting the tactile joy of books. Learning and practicing the wide range of skills and processes needed to make and share a letterpress publication, and keeping the vintage machines and tools in working order, is a passion I hope you will support by purchasing work from my shop.
To paraphrase the artist and teacher Enid Marx, not everyone can be an artist, but anyone can be a patron and supporter of the arts.