Writer & Editor
I am a writer and editor who specialises in the visual arts, with a specific interest in printmaking.
I take on freelance projects, commissions and speaking gigs alongside my role as Contributing Arts Editor at The World of Interiors.
I am the author of The Story of Printmaking: a Global History of Art published by Yale University Press , available now. Artists on Art: How They See, Think and Create, is published by Laurence King.
My newsletter Various Imprints is a monthly digest of all things art and print.
Contrary to popular belief I am not the world-famous author of The Spiderwick Chronicles.
The Story of Printmaking:
a Global History of Art
Published by Yale University Press
A vivid history of the evolution of printmaking as a means of creative expression, from prehistory to the present day.
Beginning in ancient East Asia and travelling through Renaissance Europe, revolutionary Mexico, and post-Apartheid South Africa, these ten chapters celebrate the interconnected nature of the printed image and its multiple histories, while illuminating the lesser-known players who have been deliberately or erroneously overlooked. Whether formed by slicing linoleum or plunging plates into acid, then distributed via bound books or pasted posters, the print has not just replicated the world, it has shaped it.
“Printmaking is art’s most accessible medium and this book is destined to be the go-to guide for anyone interested in its global history. Exciting, informative and beautifully illustrated, it’s a classic in the making.”
— Charlotte Mullins, author of The Art Isles