New Prints, August 2012

Two new limited edition prints from the Tom Paine Printing Press in August 2012. The top one is for the London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery in September, and the bottom one is just for fun, but I'll be showing it at the Whittington Press open day on 1st September, at the Whitechapel, and also at the Dorchester Abbey print show in October.

LEWES - CENTRE OF THE COSMOS

This just about sums it up! 

A new letterpress print by PeterChasseaud

See work by Peter Chasseaud and The Tom Paine Printing Press at:

Whittington Press Open Day - first Saturday in September

Whitechapel Art Book Fair in September

Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire in October

CODEX artists book fair in Berkeley, California, in February 2013

RECENT WORK

April 2012 already! I can't believe it's April already, and so much recent work to add. There's never enough time! I've been steadily printing new letterpress items of the wooden Common Press and the 1843 Albion, and also just completed writing an article for Matrix on Hilary Pepler and St Dominic's Press. I'm also getting commissions for book and magazine covers (e.g. VIVA LEWES December 2011), invitations, letterheads and business cards, and these, of course, take up even more time. But people love the clear letterpress impression on dampened hand-made paper, just as they love the Tom Paine Printing Press printing house and gallery at 151 High Street, Lewes. Several times a week I'm told 'What a wonderful shop' by entranced visitors.

The last letterpress book I produced was BLAST?, a large folio printed on the Common Press, which was shown last December by Art & Fiction in Lausanne, Switzerland, at their Mode de Vie demontage event, for which I also designed and printed the posters. Here are some of the page spreads.

The most recent letterpress broadside I printed was A Good Booke, being quotations from Milton's Areopagitica. Image to follow.

WICKER WOMAN - A RECENT ADDITION , & OTHER NEWS

Here's a pic of Wicker Woman (or T'Wicker Woman, as we used to say in Sheffield). She found her way to The Tom Paine Printing Press a few weeks ago, and I liked her poise so much that I asked her to stay.

I'll be showing my 'BLAST?' letterpress book (images to follow) at the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair at Oxford Brooks University on 5th & 6th November (damn! I'll be missing Lewes Bonfire).

Recently I've printed a small broadside 'Hurrah! For Bonfire', and also a front cover for the December issue of 'Viva Lewes' (also images to follow).

RECENT & FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES

Two views of Jonny Hannah's work at The Tom Paine Printing Press

It seems I've been too busy printing and running the Tom Paine Printing Press and Press Gallery to update this blog! Recent events of note were attending the Ditchling Museum Ball (to raise funds for the redevelopment of the Museum) last night at Mount Harry House, a visit to the Whittington Press Open Day on 3rd September, and putting on a show of Jonny Hannah's 'McVouty' and other work at the Press Gallery which ran for two weeks and three weekends during the Lewes District Artwave Festival in late August and the first part of September.

Later this week I'm showing my work at the Whitechapel Art Book Fair (Thursday 22 Sept to Sunday 25 Sept). NB: Thursday is by invitation only. This will be a chance to see my new large-format all-letterpress artist's book 'BLAST?'. I'll post some photos here soon. I'll also be showing some other letterpress work, and my poetic photobooks.

During the first weekend in November I'm showing a large selection of my work at the Oxford Fine Press Fair at Oxford Brooks University.

NEW LONDON LETTERPRESS PRINT: SWEET THAMES

Here is the forme, and an artist's proof, for my new limited edition print, a typographical map entitled Sweet Thames. So many peple liked my earlier print The East London Line, which covered the same part of London, that I decided to produce this new one. My standard size for these prints, dictated by the maximum sheet I can print on my replica 18th-century wooden common press, is a bit larger than A2, and to print this sheet I have to pull three times, winding the carriage under the platen in three stages.

RECENT WORK AT THE PRESS, MAY 2011

Ditchling Museum Ball forme on the bed of the Common Press

Ditchling Museum Ball print

A Bodoni Bestiary; in 48pt Bodoni Italic, printed on Khadi hand-made paper
on the Albion benchtop press

48pt Bodoni Bold Italic Alphabet printed on Khadi hand-made paper
on the Albion bench-top press