tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-360728912024-03-13T17:59:22.578+00:00The Old Stile Press :: News & Work in ProgressFor more than thirty years at The Old Stile Press we, Frances & Nicolas McDowall, have been working with artist/printmakers to produce books of great beauty, hand printed in limited editions. Full details can be found at our website (link below) but we hope that our friends will visit here regularly to see what is going on at the Press.Frances and Nicolas McDowallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721730413005823818noreply@blogger.comBlogger232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36072891.post-60376219307585047572016-05-10T15:34:00.004+01:002016-05-10T15:34:33.336+01:00Monkey Puzzle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">For all of the thirty-odd years we have been living at Catchmays Court - and probably about 100 years before that - a wonderfully prominent feature of the landscape has been our massive <i>Araucaria</i>, Chilean Pine. It was a female tree at least 30 metres high and much remarked by visitors and loved by us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">We had rather wondered what its life expectancy might be and noted its proximity to the house but it had always seemed to be very healthy - especially at the crown where yearly cones matured and cracked open on hot late summer days scattering 200 nutlike seeds <i>each</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">There was, however, a severe wind from an unusual direction one night a few weeks ago. We heard nothing but awoke to discover an awesome scene. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was clear that, though everything above ground was in good shape, the roots were not . . . with a good deal of rot. We do bless the unusual direction of the wind as, had the tree been made to fall in the other direction, it would have taken a good part of the house with it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Characteristically, when Spring begins to show in the garden and woodland around us, Nicolas goes out with his camera to 'welcome blessed Spring' so, to re-launch the OSP blog here are some of these <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. . . hot out of the camera!</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We watched the diligent robin carrying ever-larger wisps towards this safe little corner by the kitchen door. Happy little story - so far so good!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and here is a photo taken in tribute to John Elwyn, with whom we produced a book of Dafydd ap Gwilym's wonderful poems and who was fascinated by reflections in bay windows. Such refl<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ections appear in many of his paintings and this scene deserves to be painted as well<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Apparently it is loved by the caterpillars of the orange-tip which will account for the many of them hovering around the plants at the moment. More interesting I read that, being a good source of Vitamin C early in the year, it was good against the scurvy in olden times. There was a problem with this, though. The plant was particularly loved by the fairies so anyone picking it was liable to a good cursing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Over in Dublin there is a very lively print museum where there are inspirational workshops for children and adults to learn about the creative processes involved in the making of a book</span><span style="font-size: large;"> surrounded by the type and presses collected together from letterpress print shops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At present there is an exhibition which runs round the gallery above this active print shop entitled <i>Exquisite Editions.</i> Around thirty books are displayed which have come from active presses around the world who continue to use presses such as those on show in the museum striving for the highest possible standards and using high quality materials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The books have been selected by a Dublin printer, Jamie Murphy, who has his own press <i>The Salvage Press </i>where he creates<i> </i> his own very finely printed editions. This is a version of <i>The Battle of Maldon</i> with wood engravings by Simon Brett.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are showcases for the display and hanging above each is a description of the press involved in the making of the book on show and the details of the book itself. It has been curated with great care and obvious love for the many ways in which books can come into being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were delighted that Jamie Murphy chose Angela Lemaire's <i>A Christmas Sequence</i> which was photographed at the show and put on Facebook so that we may share it with you here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">During much of 1997, a 'studio' was formed from a sheet of plastic lashed to a number of trees in a birch grove surrounded by fields at Catchmays Court and the sculptor, Matt Baker, could be found carving away for hours a day at a sizeable chunk of reddish 'forest stone' which had been chosen and imported from a nearby quarry that has been in operation since Roman times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The figure that eventually emerged from this stone can be seen in all these photographs. All the stones that surround him had been there for probably hundreds of years. Some were left just as they were but many others were moved, by Matt and various helpers, so as to form the low walls of an enclosure with the figure more or less in its centre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The figure can be interpreted in numerous ways. He is clearly emerging from the ground itself and the element that partly envelops his naked body can be read, depending on the angle of your vision, as a piece of material, a hollow tree or a solid rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> In the words of the sculptor, <i>While in the the process of becoming and emerging from its surroundings, a figure is seen in the process of beginning a gesture. The weight of the body is focussed behind the right hand, as the hand intends a sweep outwards and around to echo the shape of the enclosure.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sheep may or may not have a sense of all this but what they DO know is that 'creative' hand is absolutely fantastic for rubbing the part of their back that they simply cannot reach!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For that was the starting point of this post for me. It was agreed with Matt, from the very beginning, that the sheep who roam these fields should be very much part of the sculpture . . . hence its name. The fact is that cohorts of the creatures come and go as the seasons go by and they all seem to develop different behaviour patterns . . . particularly as to where they go to get out of the wind. Some cluster around the base of a Western Red Cedar, and some in the corner at the foot of a large Pin Oak. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the beginning of January 2015 we sent out a notice to those who have opted into our mailing list about this exciting book which brings the ground-breaking French poem by Blaise Cendrars to English readers in a translation by Dick Jones together with stunning imagery by Natalie d'Arbeloff. Almost within the first day all the copies of the special edition were spoken for and the main edition is being sent off to some very prestigious libraries. We repeat that newsletter for those who may have missed it or not opened their email that day!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">This extraordinary epic poem - known for short as the Trans-Sib, given its deliberately awkward and cumbersome title - was written by Blaise Cendrars in 1913. It is a compound of the literal and the surreal, a breathless travelogue, historical commentary and dreamscape narrative.<br /><br />His daughter, Miriam Gilou Cendrars, writes for this edition a note about the importance of Cendrars’ work to modern poetry of the twentieth century. She has enthusiastically praised this translation and has encouraged us throughout in our labours toward the realization of our dreams and hopes for this edition.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">The paper is Canaletto Liscio 160gsm. Typeface is Storm Sans. In the printing of the text, twenty-four different colours of ink were chosen, employed at random. The suite of vinyl cut images are printed directly from Natalie d’Arbeloff’s original blocks. The book was case-bound at The Fine Book Bindery with papers designed by the artist and the lined slipcase and the Box containing the Special</span></i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"> Edition is blocked with an image of Cendrars.</span></i></span></span> </span></i></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Recently an email arrived telling us of the <i>British Book Design and Production Awards 2014</i> - only a few days left to enter it said. Among the fifteen categories of different aspects of design and production it seemed there is one for <i>Limited Editions and Private Presses. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why not! We produce books that fulfil all their criteria and so, although we have never been much excited by competitions and the like, we submitted Ralph Kiggell's <i>The Third Thing.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Given the standing of the country's great publishing and printing houses we would be a veritable David among the Goliaths but it is a beautiful book and perhaps there would be appreciative judges who would recognise its worth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So - we are more than happy so be able to say that it has been shortlisted in the category . . . along with <i>Phaidon</i>, <i>Canongate</i> and <i>Northend</i> (who printed our second <i>Bibliography</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a form to fill in listing every possible stage of a book’s production and they needed to know the names of all those by which these were performed. In our case, of course, there were only two names to fill in . . . Nicolas and Ralph Kiggell . . . until it came to binding and then, of course, <i>The Fine Bookbindery</i> was inserted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">November 20th is the day when there is a <i>‘glittering event for all those involved in the industry, bringing printer, designers and their clients together to celebrate the best of British book design and production work’</i>. More than possibly David will have succumbed beneath the combined weight of so many greats but it is good to know that some significant judges from among the higher reaches of design and book publishing have enjoyed <i>The Old Stile Press</i>’s entry sufficiently to shortlist it.</span></div>
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<br />Frances and Nicolas McDowallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721730413005823818noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36072891.post-66481231152493951242014-07-28T23:06:00.000+01:002014-07-30T10:06:50.247+01:00Keats and calligraphy<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Although we are extremely pleased with how our recent publications have turned out and proud of our involvement with the projects and their artists, one could say that they have been weighty in content and spirit . . . as well as in their physical manifestation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A bit of a change, therefore . . . and (at least, for now!) a lightening-up at The Old Stile Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This all started when we first had the pleasure of meeting the calligrapher, Andy Moore, at a book fair. I have always been much taken with the craft but much prefer the work to be colourful and loose rather than perfect and po-faced. I have also long had a wish lodged in my mind that I might one day discuss with an amenable practitioner the possibility of 'editioning' calligraphy work in some way through the medium of letterpress printing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The work that surrounded Andy on his stall was very skilfully made but full of wit and almost reckless invention. Pious saws and holy quotes were thin on the ground in favour of writings about artists and fascinating places, quotes from tombstones and collaged photographs taking their place alongside deliciously free and swoopy lettering - not minding the flicks of ink that seemed the entirely appropriate byproduct of the energy with which he had worked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some experiments followed and soon the search was on for a text. I cannot remember, as usual, quite where this idea came from but it has turned out to be just perfect for our happy jaunt . . . alongside the youthful John Keat<span style="font-size: large;">s and his "A Song About Myself", <span style="font-size: large;">sent with a letter to his young sister during a homesickness-ruined stay in Edinb<span style="font-size: large;">urgh.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> So . . . we have made the book and it is, at present, with the binder. I have been able to photograph a first copy and here are s<span style="font-size: large;">ome shots.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Main Edition of the book consists of 150 copies. There is also a Special Edition of 12 copies - 10 copies for sale. For this, the book is enclosed in a solander box, shown below, which also houses a portfolio in which are to be found all the actual artwork used in the making of a pair of facing pages in the book AND a sheet of original calligraphed work . . . a further piece of Keats created by Andy Moore afresh for each copy of the Special Edition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The only things I cannot give here are the prices of the two editions. Watch this space!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So . . . thank you Andy. This ha<span style="font-size: large;">s</span> been good fun. It ha<span style="font-size: large;">s</span> also been a good and successful experiment for me and I hope that it might lead on to future collaborations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am always happy when the sweet peas are on the go. <span style="font-size: large;">T</span>his morning<span style="font-size: large;">, as I approa<span style="font-size: large;">ched the sunny wall to relieve the plants o<span style="font-size: large;">f today's crop (pour encourager les autres!) I saw that the flowers (already, in my opinion<span style="font-size: large;">, one of the most perfect in their simple beauty) were jewelled with water drops<span style="font-size: large;">, from dew or from last night<span style="font-size: large;">'s thunder storms. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="goog_1284600964"></span><span id="goog_1284600965"></span>Frances and Nicolas McDowallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721730413005823818noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36072891.post-64185043106243942562014-05-14T16:01:00.000+01:002014-05-14T16:01:56.920+01:00Olympia here we come<br />
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Our prestigious and successful five-week exhibition in the Pierhead Building in Cardiff Bay is now over but there are other places where we shall be taking books this year. First will be the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>London International Antiquarian Book Fair</b> </span>at Olympia from 22 to 24 May.<br />
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Our stand there is in the <span style="color: #cc0000;">LIVE!</span> section and during the course of the event we are offering three talks about our work.<br />
On <b>Thursday</b>: How Gutenberg inspired the design of a book; which focuses on Angela Lemaire's <i>Jubilate Agno (around 5pm)</i><br />
on <b>Friday</b>: Printing letterpress from woodcut and polymer. A discussion of direct 3-dimensional printing of original work by contemporary artists; focusing on Ralph Kiggell's <i>The Third Thing</i> and on the latest book with John Abell - <i>The Diary of a Dead Officer</i><br />
on <b>Saturday</b>: Making paper for printing a book which showcases <i>The Affectionate Shepheard </i>with paper handmade by Frances McDowall.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3p4CoeKOye3ZMVo_dbTttd9cmbDNhuILH1pGXQuZWgni4OomoUgg9Hu1d7CEQVgX0k7KxCbM_fNBTEUe78rLF7vNurwF50yRPb8U7jkUShLdBuJqo98Qdd5LdToUYtRYcLnPOw/s1600/DOx22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3p4CoeKOye3ZMVo_dbTttd9cmbDNhuILH1pGXQuZWgni4OomoUgg9Hu1d7CEQVgX0k7KxCbM_fNBTEUe78rLF7vNurwF50yRPb8U7jkUShLdBuJqo98Qdd5LdToUYtRYcLnPOw/s1600/DOx22.jpg" height="459" width="640" /></a><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Among the bookbinders</span></h3>
The world of bookbinding has become more and more visible with many wonderful exhibitions in recent times and we were delighted that Dominic Riley won the Paul Getty prize for a binding on a book with a Shakespearean theme with our <i>Pyramus & Thisbe.</i><br />
In May a tour of the work of designer bookbinders working in the UK and US will begin at St Bride’s in London. Entitled <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>InsideOUT</b></span> the exhibition will have 65 books produced by private presses on both sides of the Atlantic and promises to be spectacular judging by the splendid catalogue. A number of Old Stile books have been selected and it will be good to see these bindings go off to the USA, starting at:<br />
Houghton Library, Cambridge MA 11 September - 13 December 2014;<br />
Minnesota Center for Book Arts 10 January - 28 March 2015;<br />
Bonhams, New York 10-19 April 2015;<br />
San Francisco Center for the Book 6 June - 5 July 2015<br />
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Later, in June, there will be a <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Society of Bookbinders Training Seminar</b></span> at Cirencester Agricultural College and we shall be there on Friday 27 June 8.30 am - 7 pm with unbound copies of many of our books for binders to choose from. It is always good to be able to see and feel the physical presence of a book before embarking on a a binding - so much time is invested and choosing from a website (however detailed) is not the same! Hence we have for many years taken copies to such conferences. Do let us know before the event if there is any particular title you know you would like to see. <br />
<br />There will be unbound copies of our latest book <i>The Diary of a Dead Officer </i>available at £200 - from this Fair or from us direct.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If yo<span style="font-size: large;">u</span> have bee<span style="font-size: large;">n prevented by matters of <span style="font-size: large;">State from visiting the Old Stile Press' exhibition at Futures Gallery<span style="font-size: large;">, Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay at any time during the past month . . . </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">All welcome!</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday afternoon, Dame Rosemar<span style="font-size: large;">y Butler, the Presiding Officer of the Welsh Assembly, kindly paid a visit to the exhibition which she was entirely responsible for making possible. We must again s<span style="font-size: large;">ay how enormously</span> grateful we are for <span style="font-size: large;">bringing all this about - and for her enthus<span style="font-size: large;">iastic appreciation <span style="font-size: large;">of the results.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the photograph below, she is discussing his book, <i>The Abstract Garden</i>, with the poet, Philip Gross.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One for the album!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here, Keith Bayliss talks with Frances and his wife, while . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">. . . while Dame Rosemary studies images from his book, <i>White Voices.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i><span style="font-size: large;">and<span style="font-size: large;">, finally . . . </span></span><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This remarkable (if slightly over-dressed!) edifice<span style="font-size: large;"> is the Pierhead Building</span>, the historic centre of Cardiff Bay, which used to be the office of the Harbour Master when <span style="font-size: large;">the Welsh capital still had its docks. It now </span>stands next to the Senedd - the home of the W<span style="font-size: large;">elsh Assembly - and houses historic exhib<span style="font-size: large;">its, conferences and othe<span style="font-size: large;">r events . . . including, throug<span style="font-size: large;">hout the month of April, an exhibition describin<span style="font-size: large;">g the activities past and present of The Old Stile Press. The poster to be seen by the main door at the extreme left of the photo below advertizes this fact! </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were invited to stage the show <span style="font-size: large;">when we had the pleasure of meeting the Presiding Officer of the Senedd, Dame Rosemary Butler, a year or s<span style="font-size: large;">o. She was kin<span style="font-size: large;">d enough to think that Wales should know more about our activities. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Futures Gallery is housed in a beautifully <span style="font-size: large;">spacious and airy<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>room on the first fl<span style="font-size: large;">oor and we managed to erect ou<span style="font-size: large;">r</span> carefully planned show quite painlessly - with the help of our son Daniel with his picture-hanging skills and after penetrating the most efficient-seeming securit<span style="font-size: large;">y procedures.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope that the following photographs will give some idea of <span style="font-size: large;">what visitors will see<span style="font-size: large;"> . . . but, best of all<span style="font-size: large;"> would be if you could vi<span style="font-size: large;">s</span>it in person! From 10.30 - 4.30 every day for the rest of April.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the way back to our car, after putting finishing touches to the show, I took a final photograph of the day . . . to capture a remarkably serene angle of the, mostly very hectic, Cardiff Bay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For John, his "Book Day" was when he came to Catchmays Court to see, and handle, the sample copy of the Main and Special editions of his great work, hot from the binders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had previously printed small editions of some of the mighty woodcuts from the book and John signed and annotated this <span style="font-size: large;">(one of my great favourite<span style="font-size: large;">s) to remember the occasion.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The final piece of printing ha<span style="font-size: large;">d</span> been done<span style="font-size: large;">, the sheets folded and <span style="font-size: large;">inserted to form sections. </span></span>John Abell had now to sign each copy of the colophon page before the sections were collated into books. Happily this coincided with John having finished cutting the two lino blocks planned for the cover, so a trip to Catchmays Court was organised to include our mutual friend<span style="font-size: large;">, Bill Garnett, of <i>Pomegranate Fine Art</i></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> As John signed, I slipped the page into <span style="font-size: large;">its section and we talked . . . about . . . what more appropriate than <span style="font-size: large;">"</span>what shall we do for out next book"! These photographs show the aftermath of all this, a little lunch<span style="font-size: large;">, during which the pile of signed sheets was pushed ignominiously to the edge of the table!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next day saw Frances performing he<span style="font-size: large;">r lonely dance round the piles of sections to produce<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>ever-growing piles of collated copies - ready for transport to t<span style="font-size: large;">he binders. That is when I have completed the final printing, of the cover blocks.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This photograph was taken of John during a recent visit to Catchmays Cour<span style="font-size: large;">t . . . during which I was able to show him my printings of his linocuts which (as you may remember from an earlier post) he will never have seen printed before!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rather than photographing complete pages, I have today directed my camera at vari<span style="font-size: large;">ous details of blocks and have taken adva<span style="font-size: large;">n</span>tage of some 'stage-lighting' provided by the winter sunshine. </span>You will therefore not get a full idea of what the book will look like but the power of these images will, I am sure<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">, make an appropriate initial impact.</span></span></span> </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We spent last weekend at the ma<span style="font-size: large;">jor Book Fair in Oxford and had a good and successful time. We had restricted what we showed to<span style="font-size: large;"> recent publications and some <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">'</span>Specials' of earlier titles where we still had copies. Sales <span style="font-size: large;">in both categories were encouragingly brisk and the sample printed pages from <i>The Diary of a Dead Offi</i><span style="font-size: large;"><i>cer</i> (see previous post, below) made a tremendous impact. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I woke on Monday morning I had a lovely <span style="font-size: large;">sense of freedom to do many things but<span style="font-size: large;">, when it came to it, we two poor oldies realized that we were too utterly exhaust<span style="font-size: large;">ed from all that talking etc that we could not manage to do anything except<span style="font-size: large;">, in my case<span style="font-size: large;">, to haul my camera around for a b<span style="font-size: large;">it in what happened to be a glo<span style="font-size: large;">riously golden Autumn day.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<br />Frances and Nicolas McDowallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721730413005823818noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36072891.post-58582357810183890642013-10-26T18:41:00.000+01:002013-11-07T17:49:21.711+00:00The Diary of a Dead Officer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The time has come, we think, for us to reveal what is happening in the printing office at the moment . . . or<span style="font-size: large;">, rather, what I have been printing away at for many weeks now, while Frances tells the wor<span style="font-size: large;">ld about the already wonderfully appreciated <i>The Third Thing</i> and Ralph Kiggell, now returned home to Bangkok, makes p<span style="font-size: large;">lan<span style="font-size: large;">s for the book to be pr<span style="font-size: large;">omote<span style="font-size: large;">d and exhibited in a number of his far eastern galleries.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Above you will see the titlepage of our new offering which gives most of <span style="font-size: large;">what you need to know about the text. There have been editions of this remarka<span style="font-size: large;">ble and m<span style="font-size: large;">oving text but not many . . . and I do not know of one where the words have been balanced by equally powerful images.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">That clearly is the particular strength of this publication (planned, for obvious reasons, for publication in 1914) <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"><i>[ . . . or, eve<span style="font-size: large;">n,</span> 2014</i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"><i>. <span style="font-size: large;">T</span>hanks for pointing that out, Natalie]</i></span></span>. John Abell's wood and linocut techniques have become simply more and more hard-hitting since we first met the you<span style="font-size: large;">ng artist a couple of years ago. He has since won <span style="font-size: large;">prizes and the acclamation of many who have seen exhibitions of his work - ofte<span style="font-size: large;">n woodcut images of incredible complication and four or five feet squ<span style="font-size: large;">are - printed laboriously by the artist himself with the back of a spoon. Five hours labou<span style="font-size: large;">r</span> per print i<span style="font-size: large;">s the going rate, John says<span style="font-size: large;">!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have been working for some weeks on printing the text (in Bodoni type and a dark green ink) but I have just reached the e<span style="font-size: large;">xcitement of beginning to print the images. It is this that I thought I would photograph for you today.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First of all, here is a lino block, fresh from John. It bears his unique brand of 'drawing' . . . very bold and in a handful of crude coloured markers. As the lino is pale, you can hardly see the cutting but it has by this stage been completed<span style="font-size: large;">, in all its detail. </span>You will note that it has not been 'proofed' in any way. John never does. Somehow he is able to know exactly what the cuts he makes will look like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look <span style="font-size: large;">carefully at this 'drawing', for it is about to disappear, for ever. Below, you will see that the rollers of my press have inked the lino <span style="font-size: large;">before the press makes an impression, in exactly the correct place one hopes, o<span style="font-size: large;">n the page which already has text printed on it<span style="font-size: large;"> . </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">. . . and this is the result of that inking. (The two scruffy pieces of paper below the block, by the way, are there to war<span style="font-size: large;">n <span style="font-size: large;">me if the pressure on it from the rollers is forcing the block down the bed of the press.) Here is the printed res<span style="font-size: large;">ult.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is still a long way to go but I hope I have whetted a few app<span style="font-size: large;">e</span>tites to see the completed book, sometime early next year I hope. I, for one, am absolutely thrilled with how the book is developing<span style="font-size: large;"> . . . and so was John when<span style="font-size: large;"> we showed him the first printed image!</span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year I have not been overdoing the 'wonders of Nature in the Wye Valley' brand of post . . . but I thought this might be an exception. Breathtaking to see it in this peak of brightness - especially as the day on which this photo was taken had seen torrential rain for hours on end. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do not know whether e-smell has been invented yet but I certainly don't have an ap for it. If I did, you could enjoy, as we did, the extraordinary smell of burnt sugar that comes from the leaves that have fallen to the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a <i>Cercidiphyllum japonicum</i> and I planted it a number of years ago. More recently I planted a <i>Liquidamber</i> quite near to it and that is also doing well, in an adolescent sort of a way. In a few years time the double act should be quite something!</span><br />
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