A brief picture history
A selection of artists’ books and small press publications.
Library.
In filing order - books about finding the mysterious in the everyday, human relationships, memory, misunderstandings, printing itself, process books, sequences, tokens and the zebra.
Oversize.
Oversize because the book becomes a stage set; a world in which one becomes physically immersed. It takes effort to read oversize books; they can’t be read quickly; size increases the dramatic tension of turning a page. I like them as canvases because in the kind of drawing/print that I make, the marks need space. There is also a perverse part of me that also just likes to make deliberately unwieldy things.
Collaborations.
These books are about sequences of images, found things; pages as linking devices; books as means of displaying collections themselves. Sometimes in small editions, sometimes one-off books, where form follows idea or content.
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Enquiries and credits.
This is a small selection of books that I have made since I made my first book in 1978 at Leicester School of Printing. Please email for more information. I no longer own copies of all the books I have made but if you would like to see these books I can hopefully direct you to collections where they are held.
Photograph credits: In the last ten years the main photographers of my books have been John Standnicki and more recently, Barney Wilczak. Any blurry or poorly photoshopped images will inevitably be mine.