Bibliophilia

Since my last post I have: driven from Whangarei to Hamilton and back flown from Hamilton to Wellington and back marvelled at the warm, fine...

I don't know if you can tell, but I am grinning all over my face in this picture. I have just pulled my first successful print off the ...

As you know I am a big magnolia fan and last year I announced the winner of the first annual Magnolia of the Year award. But it has recen...

I have always felt a tinge of shame that before I started making artist's books, one of my favourite pastimes was doing jigsaw puzzles. ...

Northland is flooding , so I joined the exodus of people leaving work early, taking over an hour to drive the route that had taken me 20 mi...

This week I finally seemed to hit my stride with printing. I understood what I need to do to get the results I want and I got some traction...

No letterpress last week as I went on a little holiday to WOMAD in Taranaki. Too many punters and dodgey weather but lots of friends to ca...

In my experience people who love hand printing or/or book binding love the craft in an extraordinarily generous way. The two organisations ...

A certain amount of reinventing the wheel is surely inevitable when one is learning an ancient craft without an expert teacher by one's ...

I couldn't help myself, the steering wheel seemed to have its own volition, swerving through rush hour traffic into the turning lane tha...

Reflecting on my second LetterPress Friday I can see at this point I am learning more about myself than I am about printing. And I'm l...

I didn't intend to give the impression that I had run away to America. The last two posts were old poems from my last trip there and I ...

Flying out of the night into a dawn as sharply defined as the edge of the cloud’s shadow surrendering to a sky the colour of fruit s...

New York is noisy we have to raise our voices talking while we walk through Monday night East Village. The moon shines in slivers of a ...

I mentioned a couple a months ago that I have done an about face in my attitude towards home owning. It seems that I am in the process of ...