Stories, records, and notes from the world of printmaking.
Transporting heavy printmaking equipment requires careful planning and specialist handling. These machines are often extremely heavy and sensitive to damage. The process begins with an assessment of the equipment and the site. This includes identifying access points, potential obstacles, and any structural considerations. Dismantling may be required to reduce weight and allow safe transport. Each […]
On Tuesday 31st March 2026 I drove to Kidlington, just north of Oxford, to carry out a valuation. The request was a familiar one. A house inherited, a studio tucked away in the garden, and inside it — something substantial, clearly important, but entirely unknown to its new owners. They needed a valuation for probate, […]
Some presses arrive complete, quietly waiting to be understood. Others arrive as questions. This Atlas press began as the latter — discovered in a garden, exposed to the elements, and missing its most critical components: the impression mechanism. What remained was substantial, undeniably historic, but incomplete in a way that rendered it inoperable. And yet, […]
It is not often that a press returns to you after forty years. Recently, AMR Logan Press added a Marketplace section to their website — a place where printmakers can offer presses for sale, often with little more than a few photographs and a brief description. Among the current listings is a Harrild Albion press, […]
Over the last two summers I’ve been refurbishing a building in a small village called Plaisance du Gers in South West France. It’s about two hours from Toulouse in the middle of 15th century forgotten, rural French landscape. When I first bought this large, rambling building I envisioned a place to live with a printmaking […]
In March 2018, a small team came together for a very particular task. Sarah Cutler, Patrick Roe, Guy Brudenell and Ben Hamilton of The Logan Press joined forces with Giles Hovendon of AMR Press to dismantle and remove a large and historically significant printing machine from Quarry Bank Mill. Its destination was a storage facility […]
National Trust properties are never straightforward places to work. We were contacted regarding a large Cropper platen press at Sissinghurst Castle — a site closely associated with Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson. The house and gardens have long been part of England’s literary and cultural landscape, and are often linked — directly or […]
