Editing the Ice.

Yesterday the forecasters had offered us exactly half a day of sun after days of rain and before more days of the same. We, of course, rushed out to make best use of it, feeling a bit like the prisoners in Fidelio as they blunder and grope out into the light. It was...

COVERED!

For the first time last year, a small number of Private Presses including The Old Stile Press, participated in the exhibition, Covered!, alongside art galleries showing paintings, drawings and prints at the Modern Works on Paper part of the Watercolours and Drawings...

Bad Husbandry at Catchmays Court

Temporary fence-strengthening against invasion by especially athletic sheep from next door. I’d like to say that this is our latest purchase by way of riverside sculpture, but . . . When ‘bindertwine’ is so effective for fixing a gate to its post,...

A good Fair at Oxford and a ‘Barbarian’ at our gate!

The Fine Press Fair at Oxford happens only every two years. When it finally comes around, after this long interval, WHOOSH and suddenly it is all over! We had a very successful time, though, talking both with many long-standing customers and with some folk who have...