Mighty teazel!

Ever since my Grandmother called me (a teenager) to see the miracle that had been wrought in her tiny garden in Winchester . . . a self-seeded teazel in all its glory . . . this plant has been one of my  absolute favourites. This year the same miracle has happened to...

Edinburgh Festival dates with Angela Lemaire

Two years ago McNaughtan’s bookshop in Edinburgh showed some of Angela’s work  in their gallery upstairs during the Festival and this year they have again given over their gallery to her work but especially to celebrate her new book with us –...

DO try this at home! . . .

 . . . if you have half a chance, and before the nannies start to twitter. Surely, this is what childhood is all about!     Agility, coupled with a bit of brotherly co-operation, leads to   satisfaction, and a great bowl of cherries!  ...

Black spots on a peacock’s tail.

    There are many logistical imperatives that determine the order in which these pages return to the press for another printing. The need to change the colour of the ink on the press as seldom as possible is one obvious one and the fact that the effect of green on...

A Cool Printing for a Hot Day

I can hardly believe it but I am really coming to the end of printing these images for Ralph Kiggell’s The Third Thing. My printing office is cruelly cold during the winter but deliciously cool in summer. Added to that I was printing the final,...