Mother Nature’s paint box

To celebrate our 48th wedding anniversary I have been snapping round the garden again! This time I was particularly amazed at the depth and richness of the colours on offer this year. Perhaps they are just the same as usual but . . . Frances, ever perceptive,...

a very kind review . . .

This week we received a copy of the summer edition of the magazine produced for The Imaginative Book Illustration Society (IBIS) which contains the review below of our recently published bibliography. We have known Geoffrey Beare for many years as a passionate...

Monks, deadly attired, in the shadow of the Cathedral . . .

We have just returned from three days (extremely cleverly chosen!) in the Pembrokeshire sun. This was remarkably restorative . . . but not what I am talking about today. A few days before we left, we had reason to drive over to Hereford which is a city we are finding...

If anybody out there still remembers me . . . Hi!

I have been silent for about a month and that must be, I fear, a mortal sin in these days of instant and total communication! I don’t tweet (should I say that I am not a twit?) and I keep ignoring folk who want me to join their Facebook (whatever that entails)...

A new collaboration with Natalie d’Arbeloff

Way back in 1999, we had the great pleasure of helping towards publication Natalie’s amazing vision of The Revelation of Saint John the Divine. Many people thought it one of the most radical pieces of book production they had ever seen and it was widely...