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Family Reunion

 Yesterday we went on the London Eye with my family. It was a day trip to spend time together before my Dad’s funeral.

New release: An Edition of 18 ScreenPrints

Working on the lining paper that will hold the Parideza edition together I created a screen I really loved and did an edition of 18 prints from it. They are of two images, and come in black and a kind of clay green I mixed, also loved, and have now sadly used up. The two images
mrs ping*: Here I am popping my head above the parapet for the first time on our Henningham family blog. Well hello there.  And happy lent to you all. My friend Jill has given up smoking, David Barnes has given up snacking again, and I have given up giving-up on writing, painful as keeping going

John Henningham memorial blog (1937-2006)

Sadly we have to announce that my Dad died this morning, at about 5am. He was in the wonderful St. Francis Hospice, where he had been for a while. It was good that we have all been getting along so well these last few years in my family {we didn’t always}. And that he was

Pseudodoxia Epidemica

We’ve got another book on the way. This time collaborative. Family favourites Wade Bradshaw, David Barnes, and Tack (Anthony Tackling) amongst others are helping me with poetry and prose fiction initiated by the chapter headings of Sir Thomas Brownes Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a 16th Century refutation of common errors. We have a guest editor lined up for poetry,

Parideza (royal hunting park>paradise)

We are working hard on the moment printing our next release, ‘Parideza’ (David Henningham). The pages are printed, and the slipcases are well underway, but binding is going to take a while because each edition is a two-volume A5 hardback set with an extra pamphlet. It opens like a triptych. I hope there will be

welcome to the press!

Our inaugural edition of books is almost ready and will be released soon. There are thirteen copies in total. It is called ‘Nonconformist’ and it is a series of silkscreened prints bound japanese style (single sheets without a flexible spine), paperback, about A5 size (by David Henningham). The work is an extension of some wall