Peculiarity Press

03/11/2024

Posted • Today .sawers and I completed the circuit of our Widdershins walk. The fifth walk in the series took us from Lavells Lake to Play Hatch, a walk of about 6 miles. We were joined on the first half of the walk by of with her trainee assistance dog, Amber.
We began work on the Widdershins Walk book straight after the first walk, back in February. The work now continues to document this exploration of Reading's outer edge with paintings, woodcut prints, writing and photographs. Jane's book-design expertise will help to make this a book everyone will want in their collection. It will be published in Spring 2025.

You can find out more about the book and place an order on the link in my bio.

Image: Turkey tail fungus

18/09/2024

The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain

Some things I was fascinated by. Some things were totally meh or left me cold.
Interesting experience overall to think about what I make of still life

16/09/2024

Just one little acquisition from this weekend but it's an absolute corker!

Persuaded by on her fab stall that I should know what I'm letting myself in for in my next book collaboration ... I bought Dreams by .sawers

Bonkers in the best possible way 😁

I love it! Reminds me a little of the joy I got from a previous impulse buy - True Stories by Sophie Calle, that I'm now reminded I should re-read

09/09/2024

Posted • Peter Driver, who works from his studio in Sulhamstead has provided a print and a book to show at Bookface Chapter 15.

'A Walk For Stanley' is Peter's book in which he documents his experiences and reflections on a three-day walk from the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham to the Sandham Memorial Chapel in Bughclere. The book, designed by Peculiarity Press, weaves together poetry, prose, sketches, woodcuts, and photographs in a beautiful account of a unique art project.

'The Losing Side' is a limited edition reduction woodcut on 300gsm somerset satin paper. It combines elements of some of our most endangered bird species, with abstract patterns inspired by the natural world. Detail shown here.




Bookface Chapter 15
Artists' book fair
Saturday 14 September 2024
11am - 4pm

The Rising Sun Arts Centre
30 Silver Street
RG1 2ST

03/09/2024

This month I joined Peter Driver & Geoff Sawers for a portion of the summer quarter of their walk around the circumference of Reading. It was a long 14 mile stretch from Theale around to Shinfield....

21/05/2023

Very sad to say that circumstances outside my control have meant the cancellation of the event on Thursday. Many people were planning to come, and I have tried to email directly as far as possible.

I was so looking forward to meeting everyone, old faces, new faces, and friends and colleagues who I was going to meet for the first time in almost 30 years, or the first time in person. But it was not meant to be this time 😔

The book will still be released on Thursday.

It's a project I'm extremely proud to be part of creating. I hope you will be intrigued by TRACe: Museum of Memory and will consider buying a copy to explore for yourself.
Available direct from the website. UK postage free until 4 June with code ROMAPOSTFREE
www.peculiaritypress.com

19/05/2023

The big launch event is almost here in London!
Join us on Thursday 6-7.30pm.
And conversation with Professor David Herd of will be engaging!
Westminster Reference Library, WC2H 7HP

An artist's book collaboration between and
with and
Story, drawing, photo, letterpress, book-binding ...

Eventbrite link in bio
All welcome, and I'm planning refreshing drinks too

12/05/2023

It rained. But even in this rain, thought Emile Charpentier, as he shook the water from his shoes, Venice looked beautiful. It was a good job he bought his boat with him. And his wetsuit. And his dry socks, for umbrellas were of no use….
But then he noticed that, even in the puddles there were traces of other mysterious things in this watery city….
‘All will be revealed soon,’ he muttered.




TRACe. Venice. May 12/13

26/09/2022

Come and meet and this week - Thursday 29th September 2pm - 3pm
Book of essays and artworks out now. See link in bio

23/09/2022

Congratulations Salma! It all came together marvellously.

And congratulations to all the artists of for an excellent exhibition. Lovely to meet so many of you and all your work in person last night 🎉

And the book looks not half bad too - even if I do say so myself 😊 (see link in bio). Filled with gorgeous images and fascinating essays. In particular I want to find out more about the work of - thank you Emily and Stephen

Exhibition open for 2 weeks at

Hoorah for

21/09/2022

TOMORROW!! I'll be there 😁

Posted • 22nd September - 4th October don’t miss us or you’ll be sooooo sorry 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🎉🎉🎉 opening party 5pm - 8pm 22nd September (5pm - 6pm screening film 🎥) with amazing work from of FUNDED BY

Book launch! Book design by with

Buy the book at the launch for a special price! Normally £25.

12/09/2022

Countdown to the exhibition next week. Looking forward to seeing the artworks that feature in the forthcoming book 😊 (link in bio)

Posted • are delighted to be showing this fascinating and important series by artist duo September 22nd - 4th October using to exploitative images of women on postcards Here at Imaginarium we use our personal stories and reclaim ornament as a

07/09/2022

- DREAMING OUR FUTURES OUT OF OUR PAST we’ve picked over every comma and full stop and gorgeous sumptuous book of art, critical writing, essays and poetry, edited and curated by is going to print on Monday. Thank you for gorgeous design work through out - you are a star ⭐️ and big thanks to for all your brilliance and tenacity as a proof reader. With contributions from , professor , Dr Stephen Putnam Hughes & Dr Emily Stevenson, .dunder translated by , of We are funded by 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 And love and gratitude to my husband for his concept design, advice and support. Special thanks to artist for all her assistance with the funding application ❤️

04/07/2022

Delighted to be in the Archive 🥰 105 Artist's Hands by
Lots of books and collections of books to explore throughout the site

10/06/2022

Exhibition open until Sunday 12th - Fringe Arts Bath - WORDPLAY - rich and varied and curated by Geoff Dunlop at 44AD Artspace, Bath

In 44AD artspace for Fringe Arts Bath 2022 you’ll find Us And Our Pictures (see next post) Glitch (see previous post) and WORDplay.

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling

Silent or spoken. Meaningful or meaningless. Sober or funny. Telling truth or lies. A salmagundi of artists comes together to play with words. Seriously.

“Don't gobblefunk around with words!”
Roald Dahl

Close to thirty artists come together at the 44AD artspace to make use of a full range of techniques – including painting, carving and print, video, performance and odd machines, plus books of all shapes and sizes.

“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”
Gabriel García Márquez

Discover more here : www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/wordplay, see link in bio.

Curated by .kailash, WORDplay is at until 12 June as part of

14/12/2021

So great to find out today that 105 Artists' Hands has been featured in Printmaking Today magazine in the latest issue

23/11/2021

'Typos: the story of a reluctant artwork' is almost here 🎈🎈🎈
Guarantee your copy - very short print run https://www.peculiaritypress.com/store/p18/typos.html

“…it’s easier to define what something isn’t than to say definitively what it is. Assuming you can really do either. I’m certainly not sure what Typos is because I think it becomes lots of different things to lots of different people... and on reflection I don’t think you can pin it down to one thing. Does that make sense?”

These are the words of the main protagonist talking about the artwork at the heart of this book. They apply just as well to the book itself: at once a work of fiction in the form of an artist’s monograph and a monograph about a fictional artwork.

Typos is the story of a significant but little known artwork by one of conceptual art’s most elusive and unknown practitioners. In setting out to produce a book about the enigmatic in art, the publisher and authors inadvertently raise questions about the nature of fiction and the nature of art.

01/09/2021

This coming Saturday - I'm doing a talk with Cally Trench at Wycombe Arts Centre about her photography and creating Cally’s book of photographs: 105 Artists’ Hands: Touch Tell Create.

WHEN: Saturday 4th September, 2-3 PM
WHERE: WAC Cafe Space
All welcome. FREE: To reserve your space, please contact Cally Trench directly on [email protected]

Find out more: https://wycombeartscentre.com/events/105-artists-hands-touch-tell-create/

Another one is coming up at South Hill Park in Bracknell on evening of Thursday 23rd.