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All young Naval Officers under initial training from the Royal Navy and those from Commonwealth and International Navies, who have stood on the parade ground at the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, will have read the stirring words on the print below. They are carved into the stone on the top facade of theContinue reading “IT IS UPON THE NAVY”

My most recent printing activity has been to print two ‘Cartoon Drawings’ done by Commander Tony Steiner OBE, himself a well known Submarine Captain and also a talented marine artist. His silhouette drawings of ‘The Casing Party’ and ‘The Attack Team’ will strike cords with many submariners who found themselves as part of these situationsContinue reading “Submarine Cartoons”

Once again the joy of a private press where one can print what one likes for whom one likes, without any time constraints or commercial pressure. So as it happens to be my big sister’s seventy-eighth birthday next week, what better than a large poster to recognise this event. Printed on Somerset mould -made paperContinue reading “Birthday Poster”

With so many of us having seen the bust of Abraham Lincoln looking down onto the storming mob into the Capital Building, I was reminded of just what a wise man he was. My print of the quote below, seems to me, to be appropriate in these strange and darker than normal days, where weContinue reading “Abraham Lincoln”

This is another Shakespeare print, with a well known quote from Twelfth Night about Music. The print is on 400gsm 100% cotton card which really brings the beauty of the ‘three dimensional’ letterpress printing which has been done with added pressure so that the decorative initial letters can be seen in the detail and reliefContinue reading “If Music be the Food of Love”

As this is the first full run with my new ‘Victoria’ Press, the production of our 2020 Christmas card is a bit of a milestone. The words from HMS PINAFORE, I hope are pertinent in these rather strange times that we are now experiencing, not yet over – and for which we can do nothingContinue reading “Family Christmas Card 2020”

The words of Hermann Zapft below, printed by Christopher Wakeling at his Corvus Works Press, are a good description of just what ‘light and shadow and of three dimensions’ that letterpress provides.

To me, one of the most missed activites of ‘Lockdown’ has been music making with others. As a very amateur – and late starter – violinist, the joy of playing with two orchestras has become a huge part of my life. Both the ‘Truly Terrible Orchestra’ (a perfect description) and the Ness Sinfonia, a moreContinue reading “Play Orchestra Play..”

The joy of a Private Press is that one can print exactly what one wants and I got great satisfaction today in printing a poster for a very old friend of mine Jonathan Thomson, who aged seventy five has just (today) completed the grulling Route 500 round the North of Scotland. He started at InvernessContinue reading ““JOB DONE”- A Personal Poster”

One of the joys of running a private press is that one can print for one’s friends as and when appropriate. For the last two years we have had a lovely French tenant (Natalie) living in the small flat over my print work-shop , who is now sadly having to go back to live inContinue reading “New Posters”