Anthony Dyson headed art departments in several institutions, including

the University of London and Birkbeck College. He established his own

press in Teddington in 1987 for his own work as well as for the Tate

Gallery, Harvard University and a number of prominent artists and print

publishers. He has been exhibiting at the Royal Academy for 50 years,

and his work is held in exhibitions in Australia, Britain, Belgium,

Norway and the US as well as specifically at the Ashmolean Museum,

Oxford. He is Vice-President of the Royal Society of

Painter-Printmakers (RE) and is author of a number of books about

printmaking as well as a regular contributor to a variety of

printmaking magazines and journals.

This book comprises contributions from individual printmakers, richly

illustrated with examples of their work and studios. Each of the nearly

seventy participants (all members of London's Royal Society of

Painter-Printmakers, including several Royal Academicians) has been

allocated a double page in which to offer an intimate insight into his

or her working procedures, giving the reader the illusion of witnessing

- behind the scenes as it were - the daily creative striving of the

artist and the patient technical procedures that often underpin

it. Their revelations range from the story of a near encounter

with Picasso to the benefits of S. W. Hayter's uncompromising tuition

at the celebrated Atelier 17 and from the taxing preparation of a

mezzotint plate to the acceptance of the sometimes unforeseen but

ultimately happy outcome of printing large collagraph images.

An exhibition related to this book ('Out of the

Sketchbook') will be held at the Bankside Gallery in London to coincide

with the book's publication. This is a valuable resource for

students, practising printmakers, and collectors of artists' original

prints.

' Fascinating anecdotes mingle with detailed explanations of individual methods '

'Whether revealing secrets or not, this book would make a valuable addition to the bookshelves of any print studio or workshop, and is especially appropriate and stimulating for someone beginning to experience the magnetism of printmaking.'

This book offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the ways that different individual printmakers work.