by Kathleen Murphy | 20 Dec, 2019 | Calendar Blogs, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
The 2020 Tinsmiths Calendar takes it’s inspiration from nature’s seasonal bounty. For this, our twelfth Tinsmiths Calendar, the theme is foraging. Beautifully illustrated with linocut designs by Anneliese Appleby, each month showcases a different forage...
by Kathleen Murphy | 1 Jan, 2014 | Calendar Blogs, In Print, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
“I’m a compositor” Martin Clark explains, “but not many people will know what that is these days, so you’d better use the term ‘letterpress printer'”. Martin has worked at Tilley Printing for over fifty years, from the age of...
by claredelatorre | 22 Mar, 2012 | In Print, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Tinsmiths Exhibitions & Events
Just arrived back from a visit to Mark Hearld and Emily Sutton in York. We have been working with Mark and Martin Clark (Tilley’s Letterpress, Ledbury) to produce limited editions of Mark’s recent linocuts – Squirrel, Blackbird, Little Owl and...
by claredelatorre | 9 Mar, 2012 | In Print, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Tinsmiths Exhibitions & Events
We are delighted to introduce Mouse by Mark Hearld, Fish by Angie Lewin, Lion by Ed Kluz and Bear by Emily Sutton. Printed on our local letterpress, using engravings cut for the purpose, we have commissioned and limited edition of 150 sets of the four beermats and...
by claredelatorre | 12 May, 2011 | In Print, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Tinsmiths Exhibitions & Events
Ledbury is beginning to hum with preparations for 2011’s Poetry Festival. For Nick Alexander’s Talking Wall, (the next event at Tinsmiths), printer, Martin Clark is well on the way to a “wall’s worth” of large poem posters to plaster our...