books

a selection of my artist books, in chronological order

Four Pictures of Birds

Made with a mix of digital shapes and ink washes, this riso zine contains dreamy symmetrically-structured images of imaginary birds, and opens up into a poster showing a mystical musical journey.

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

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About Go We

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.

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

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Midnight’s Bell

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.

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
edition of 100, signed & numbered

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Shamanesses

A zine and potential game, with the text hinting at both rules for a boardgame and guidelines for living. Characters are inspired by stages on a walk near my home, the plants and animals to be found there, and a philosophy of sharing and reciprocity with the natural world.

risograph, 2024
folded zine with gameboard illustration
printed in Seafoam Green and Hunter Green on Fedrigoni Woodstock Camoscio 140gsm paper
105 x 148 mm folded (297 x 420mm unfolded)
edition of 212, signed & numbered

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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.

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Summerfall

Created using a mix of hand-carved stamps and paper stencils, this riso-printed artists book celebrates the height (and heat) of summer and joy at the abundance of harvest. Originally an answer to an earlier creation "Winterspring" (see below), it's riso-printed in a variable edition of 85 - the black-printed figures are the same in every book, but the background shifts between a mix of green leaves, red fruit and fluorescent orange lightning-flashes.

risograph artist’s book, 2024
printed in Seafoam Green, Red, Fluorescent Orange and HDBlack on Woodstock Giallo 120 gsm paper.
hand-bound with yellow or green linen thread
Edition of 85, signed and numbered

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Winterspring

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.

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, signed & numbered

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Moth Disco

a fun and bizarre foldable risograph zine about moths, sewing your own costumes, a night on the town with your friends! this eclectic illustrated zine folds out into a moth-themed version of Ludo for up to four players. Can you get past the bats, avoid the swatter, get a boost from the moonlight or eat your way through the knitted jumper before reaching the disco ball of glory?

risograph, 2023
folded zine with gameboard illustration
printed in hunter green & fluorescent orange on Munken Lynx Rough 130gsm paper
148 x 105 mm (A3 when unfolded)
1st edition 2023: 100, signed & numbered
2nd edition 2025: 100, signed & numbered

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Many Monsters

This fold out art zine is full of monsters. Each page has one monster, illustrating perhaps a character type or a state of mind. When unfolded, the zine shows a large maze: can you navigate your way through the maze, avoiding the monsters within and without? Drawing on my lifelong love of medieval monsters and bestiaries (with a nod to the "Kennicott Bible" in particular), this zine considers various monsters we meet in our daily lives: at work, school, on the internet, and within ourselves.

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
edition of 250, signed & numbered

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The Winter Journey

an artist book inspired by an episode in The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 1922

risograph, 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

sold out

Knut/Bruno- In Memory of Two Bears

An artist’s book contrasting the fates of two bears in Germany in 2006.

screenprint, 2015
edition of 60
7 pages, 11 x 8 cm.
(11 x 56 cm when unfolded.)

sold out