The Fork and Broom Press will be exhibiting at this year’s book arts fair in Weimar. The fair is only every other year, so don’t miss out on this one! The fair will be open to the public as follows:Saturday 30 November from 10am to 7pmSunday 1 December from 10am to 5pmThere will be an opening celebration on Friday evening …

The schedule of events in August is finalised. There is much you can choose from: Open Studio, an exhibition of artist’s books, readings, guided tours. During the “tales in the barn” there’ll be readings from a choice of my artist’s books accompanied by the stories how the books came into being from a first glimpse of an idea through to …

In 1999 I started making books in my own studio. What I had at the time was one proofing press and some metal type and a lot of enthusiasm. I went to a number of bookbinding classes. Two decades on from then I have two proofing presses, a number of smaller platen presses, some estimated 10 tons of metal type …

On 15 March 2019 we’ll be open for visitors. Add to this: visitors can have their go and pull a print from movable type on one of the presses. This is to celebrate that printmaking techniques like relief printing, intaglio, letterpress, lithography and others have been awarded cultural heritage status last year on 15 March. There are more than 230 …

There are two Open Studio events coming up this year!The first will be on 15 March celebrating the first anniversary of artistic printmaking techniques being awarded cultural heritage status in Germany. We’ll be open on the Friday from 3pm to 8pm giving visitors the opportunity to have a go at one of the presses. More on this event and the …

William Shakespeare died on April 23rd in 1616. By then, besides his plays, he had written 154 sonnets. In 2016, 400 years after his death, the Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Library in Oxford called printmakers worldwide to print all of Shakespeare’s sonnets afresh. I consider myself lucky that I was given the opportunity to …

On 15 March 2018 traditional printing techniques have been awarded cultural heritage status by UNESCO. One year on many printmaking artists and printing studios open their doors and offer a wealth of opportunities to look and feel and make experiences with all sorts of printing techniques. Here at The Fork and Broom Press studio visitors will be able to have …

“Posito … Collected Spoils” is a brand new series of 10 brochures ready for the Hamburg book fair on 15-17 February 2019. Each brochure comes with one text neatly sewn with pamphlet stitch. All brochures differ in colour. Here are the first teasers – come to Hamburg and see yourself: BuchDruckKunst in Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg Barmbek:15-17 February 2019Bespoke works …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow „Woods in Winter“, published in 2014, is a book completely in English. It is a pamphlet stitch book with two linocuts and a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow printed on deckled edge papers. As the poem focuses on winter, the book is kept mainly in cold colours like whites and blues. The endpaper is a sheet of …

Manarah is an old Arabic word for ‘lighthouse’, a place of light to help those on a voyage find their way. Later the word developed into ‘minaret’ – which is the tower of a mosque. I found out about this a few years ago whilst doing research on this topic. The Swiss populace had just voted not to allow the …