C.A.Hiley
everything I do is print
prints
books
patterns
other projects
about & contact
news
︎ newsletter
︎ shop
︎ instagram
books
a selection of my artist books, in chronological order
Four Pictures of Birds
risograph, 2026
printed in Red and Blue
on Fedrigoni Woodstock Giallo 140gsm paper
105 x 148 mm folded (297 x 420 mm unfolded)
edition of 200, signed & numbered
images made with a mix of ink washes overlaid onto digitally created shapes.
︎ buy here
About Go We
risograph, 2026
printed in HDBlack and fluorescent orange
on Fedrigoni Woodstock Grigio 140gsm paper
148 x 105 mm folded (297 x 420mm unfolded)
edition of 200, signed & numbered
For this zine I initially drew characters freehand, letting some images based on the anonymous Elizabethan lyrics emerge, and then assembled them digitally against the backdrop of a stone lithography lo-shu wash. The font is Kavavinar.
The lyrics are anonymous, but have been set to music over the centuries by John Lyly, Thomas Ravenscroft, John Rutter, Stephen Chatman and Carl Orff.
︎ buy here
Midnight’s Bell
risograph artist’s book, 2025
8 pages, 105 x 75 mm (A7)
riso-printed in black and seafoam green on Woodstock Camoscio 140 gsm paper
hand bound with green linen thread, with rounded corners
Made with my hand-carved stamps and a typewriter, this booklet contains the words from a song within the 1602 play "Blurt, Master-Constable", attributed to Thomas Middleton, and familiar to me from Benjamin Britten’s Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments and strings Op.60.
︎buy here
Shamanesses
risograph, 2024
folded zine with gameboard illustration
printed in Seafoam Green and Hunter Green
on Woodstock Camoscio 140 gsm
148 x 105 mm folded (297 x 420mm unfolded)
edition of 212
︎ buy here
Two Birds in the Bush - Colossive Cartography 46
A6 map-fold book.
collaboration with Colossive Press, London, on their Colossive Cartography series.
Made using hand carved rubber stamps created to fit within the folded areas of the page.
Available via Colossive Press︎︎︎
Summerfall
risograph artist’s book, 2024
printed in Seafoam Green, Red, Fluorescent Orange and HDBlack on Woodstock Giallo 120 gsm paper.
hand-bound with yellow linen thread
Edition of 85, signed and numbered
The inevitable answer to Winterspring (see below), the riso stencils created with hand-carved stamps and paper cut-out shapes. The black layer with the stamped figures is always the same, but I changed the orientation of some of the sheets of paper while printing the three colour layers (green leaves, red fruit, fluo orange zigzag shapes), creating a mix of backgrounds so that each book is slightly different.
︎ buy here
Winterspring
risograph artist’s book, 2023
4 colours on Woodstock Bianco 140gsm recycled paper and Munken Lynx 150 gsm paper (cover)
148 x 105 mm when folded, handbound
text by C.A.Hiley
edition of 100
This artist book has pull-out pages illustrating the impatience of the season when it’s no longer winter but not quite yet spring. Inspired by carnival season folk traditions in Europe, I created the layers with my hand-carved stamps and a lightbox. I then used the photocopy function on the risograph machine to create the masters and print the zine in 4 colours. My reluctance to use digital technology led to the creation of two slightly different covers.
sold out
Moth Disco
risograph, 2023
folded zine with gameboard illustration
printed in hunter green & fluorescent orange
on Munken Lynx Rough 130gsm
148 x 105 mm (A3 when unfolded)
1st edition 2023: 100
2nd edition 2025: 100
the booklet is a double-sided map fold, an A6 size booklet that folds out to an A3 size gameboard
︎ buy here
Many Monsters
risograph, 2020
folded zine with maze illustration
148 x 105 mm (A3 when unfolded)
3rd edition 2025:
printed in Hunter Green and Red
Metapaper ecoFIBRES 120gsm paper
250 copies
the booklet is a double-sided map fold, an A6 size booklet that folds out to an A3 size poster/gameboard. Inspired by my love for illuminated manuscripts and mazes, with special reference to the manuscript known as the Kennicott Bible, Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1
︎ buy here
The Winter Journey
2020
fold-out map book
hand-bound with folding cover
128 x 95mm when folded
edition of 100:
first 50 copies printed in Medium Blue on Context Natural at Risotto Glasgow
second 50 copies printed in Blue on Munken Lynx at riso des bois
an artist book inspired by an episode in The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 1922
sold out
Knut/Bruno- In Memory of Two Bears
2015
edition of 60.
7 pages, 11 x 8 cm.
(11 x 56 cm when unfolded.)
An artist’s book contrasting the fates of two bears in Germany in 2006.
sold out