Stories, records, and notes from the world of printmaking.
On Monday 1st July 2024, Patrick Roe and Guy Brudenell of AMR Logan Press delivered an Arab letterpress machine to a film location in Luton. The press was to appear in Outrageous, the television drama based on the Mitford sisters and their political entanglements during the 1930s. The machine itself had been chosen with care. […]
In the history of British printmaking there are certain figures whose influence far outweighs the number of times their names appear in print. Chris Holladay was one of them. To many printmakers, technicians and studio founders from the 1970s onwards, Holladay was simply the man you called when a press needed moving, rebuilding, installing or […]
On Monday 20th October 2025, Patrick Roe and Simon Hollin drove to Kingston upon Thames to collect a Polymetaal JPV80 etching press for delivery to Kentish Town. The destination was a well-established photographic studio — committed to traditional processes and now looking to expand into intaglio printmaking with the addition of a large etching press. […]
We can’t quite bring ourselves to be all over Instagram, it’s just not us. But we would like to remind everyone that we are still very much alive and kicking. We can undertake every job from relocating a whole university department to replacing one small bolt on a press and all the jobs in between. […]
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 […]
