Client project · ongoing
The Emma Press
Sixteen covers and interior illustrations for a poetry press, cut on lino and printed by hand. Each one starts with the manuscript: a pencil rough, then a single image that has to carry a whole collection.
- Pieces
- 6
- Years
- 2014–25
- Colours
- 1–2
- Typical size
- A5 cover
The books
The Waiter
Mate Arias
After the Rites and Sandwiches
Parables, Fables, Nightmares
Birmingham Jazz Incarnation
Meat Songs
The Secret Box
If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing But Naked Women
How it worked
Depending on the project, was a few weeks for the Jaqueline saphra one as that was very much a collaboration - for which i ended up making 100 monoprints. but others took a week.
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Most poetry illustrations land between £300 and £2000 depending on size and colour count. Two or three commissions taken per quarter depending on the size of my current project.