Stories, records, and notes from the world of printmaking.
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 […]
