Pretty much as long as there have been playing cards in Europe, since the 14th century, they have been used for fortune-telling.  ...

          Playing cards have a history as long as paper, but they have a particularly synergistic relationship with block printing, which is...

          Today I want to share some amazing surreal wood engravings by Kayoko Moriyama (Japan, b. 1966).   Unfortunately there are two fact...

          Today I have for you a chiaroscuro woodcut by John Baptist Jackson (UK 1701-1780) a British artist who worked in Venice for a whil...

          This post is to help spread the word about another Kickstarter campaign with which I’m connected.   Where Connections Lead is “a ...

          John Frederick Greenwood (UK, 1885-1954) followed a pretty standard artist trajectory for his time.   He studied at art school, ha...

          Time for another fantasy poem (not by me), so here’s a charming one by A.A. Milne.         The Alchemist There lives an old man at...