GRAHAM PRESSMAN

Original Catseye Private Press printer, A. A. Slaney worked out of Meadow Studios in Hertfordshire, where a number of artists had set up from the 1880's as part of the Sir Hubert von Herrkomer Art School, from the time that he inherited everything at Number Two, Meadow Studios from. artist Frank Goulding, in 1962.

By that time he had been printing, using his Imperial Iron Hand Press for quite some years, following de-mob from National Service. We still have this press, dated 1858, to this day and it is a regular work-horse in our arsenal of ancient and modern equipment. It was not until 1966 that Graham first began to learn his trade as a printer under Mr.

Slaney, at the tender age of 12 years. At the time, Catseye Private Press commonly employed a Columbian iron hand press (which went, eventually, to an enthusiast in The Americas), a Golding Jobber treadle platen, and an electric Victoria parallel approach platen, for it's day to day work, printing from lead type, wood and linoleum blocks, which were engraved or cut by hand, as appropriate. Also available was a Lithographic press, which was used to print from a flat sandstone, upon which aquaphobic images had been drawn by hand.