Letterpress short video

Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film

by Danny Cooke
A short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. plymouth.ac.uk
click here to watch

Work in Progress

There is a flikr group called the Work-in-progress society (w.i.p.s) that is set up by Uppercase Magazine. It is a great spot to share some images of work in various stages of incompletion and see what other people are working on and their approach to finishing a project.  Here are a couple shots from my studio of lovely washi papers from the Japanese Paper Place, etchings on Inshu Mitsumata white,  Inshu Gampi and Mitsumata tissue.  These pieces in blue I am preparing for a large weaving as well as a hand stitched piece... we will see how that goes.

the red dot

I posted at the end of January, some details about a group show opening at Renann Isaacs Gallery that some of my work was included in but I did not post all of the show details... but here it is now.  Still lots of time to see the work.  I will try to take some photos to post soon.

Snow Queen

Still some time to see some of Pearl VanGeest's lovely work from Banff at Harbinger Gallery along with the work of at least five other talented artists.

Call for entry

I thought this poster was so great.  You can check out the details on how to enter your work here.

Lovely Letterpress

I have been hearing an awful lot about letterpress lately and decided to have look at what is out there. There are many small independent and cooperative printshops devoted to creating hand printed items and art.  The Ladies of Letterpress site is quite impressive with membership (1400 so far!), links and photos.  
Click here to watch a great little video about a printshop,
Henry & Co.

I love these photos of Megan Charland's. 

and this wonderful card of Andrea Jensen's

and this close up of a card by Danielle Bliss