Hilary Paynter.

Featuring 35 engravings, all printed from the original blocks, Moving is arranged around five themes that are central to Hilary’s work; from sweeping dramatic landscapes to social injustice and the abuse of power, there is a constant creative tension in her engraving, often offset by humour and humanity. Hilary’s confident mark-making and draftsmanship skills can be seen too have developed from her early blocks to the present day, but the interplay of tone and light on the page are always central, alongside and uncompromising response the natural world an out often brutal mistreatment of it, as well as of each other.

Each engraving, selected and introduced by Hilary, is accompanied by a text that explains the thought process behind how each image, from drawing to engraving, was developed. The blocks have been printed by Helen Hillman and Pat Randle and the book provides a lasting tribute to five decades of wood engravings by one of the masters of this craft.

26 lettered copies are bound in quarter leather by Roger Grech and are accompanied by a portfolio of engravings which sit alongside the book in a Solander box.