The Mill Prints – Sneak Preview

The mill prints is a series of colour linocuts that show some of the windmills along the mill trail in Westphalia where I am located since 2016. Each single one of them is a personality in its own right. Their individual histories of change and the fact that they have been built for the single purpose of turning the energy …

HitBox5

„Hits! Printmakers Top Ten“ is a collaboration initiated and edited by Annegret Frauenlob. Her idea was to use music & lyrics as an inspiration for printmaking artists. She started in 2017 and ever since has invited 10 colleagues every year to each choose one favourite song and create a print inspired by the music and/or lyrics. The print was to …

Kriegslied (Song of War)

BroadsheetText: poem „Kriegslied“Author: Matthias Claudius (1740-1815)Illustration: lino etching painted over with earthen pigmentsArtist: Annette C. DisslinMetal type: Semper-AntiquaPaper: deckled edge paperSize: 26x64cmYear: 2008Edition: 22 one-offs “It is war! It is war!And I wish forit please be not my fault.” More art work of similar context: Graf Mirabeau – On religious tolerance (2003) – artist‘s book – sold outDid you like …

Triptych 11 September

On 11 September 2001 an unprecedented act of terrorism destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York (USA) and killed thousends of people. Shortly after I came across this twin-trunk tree on an autumnal walk not far from a very special location: Nördlingen Ries, which is an impact crater formed by a meteorite crashing here around …

24 February 2022

Broadsheet featuring a translation of the folksong “The Battle” by J. Richards and B. Pegg – translation by Annette C. Disslin Broadsheet on deckled edge paper, letter press from handset metal type (Bodoni and Post-Antiqua), painted with earthen pigments. 2003 – eight one-offs painted prior to printing, 2003 – four one-offs painted painted after printing. More art work of similar …

OGP Ephemera 2021

Oxford Guild of Printers Ephemera 2021: The Abecedarium The Fork and Broom Press‘ contribution for the OGP‘s Abecedarium was a print for the letter Q. I chose the text about the quarantine flag used to signal a vessel being free of disease. On the reverse of the sheet a frame of Q‘s shows the diversity in design there is in …

In Time of Pestilence

Membership with the Fine Press Book Association (FPBA) comes with two copies of their journal „Parenthesis“. In the course of one year members will receive two issues: the spring issue edited in the UK and the autumn issue edited in North America. Add to this members can subscribe to have either the standard version or the deluxe version, the latter …