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I’m heading to California! The Lone Oak Press will once again be exhibiting at the Codex IX Book Fair on February 4-7, 2024 at the HJK Convention Center in Oakland, California. I’ll be showing new books, prints, and silverpoints. Learn more here.

Abigail Rorer and The Lone Oak Press will be exhibiting in Oxford December 9th and 10th, showing new books, engravings, and silverpoints. Here is more information about the fair itself. Hope to see you there.

Another project to celebrate the Society of Wood Engravers Centenary in 2020 is four box sets of 20 engravings, each by a different member of the Society, on the theme of the four seasons.

Published in 2020 to mark the Centenary of the Society of Wood engravers, this book links past with present and provides a fitting tribute to the skills of the engravers and the part played by the Society in the history of wood engraving. Nineteen wood engravers were asked to choose their major artistic influence, write

Dulwich College in London, founded in 1619, celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2019 with a special focus on wood engraving. Thomas Sturge Moore, the wood engraver, was a student at Dulwich in the early 1880s and to honor him and the College they commissioned seven wood engravers to create an engraving inspired by the school. I

Abigail Rorer has two engravings in the Wood Engravers’ Network Third Triennial Exhibition which opened in the summer of 2017 at Stockton University in Hammonton, NJ and will travel to other venues until December 2019. For more information go to: www.woodengravers.org.

The Society of Wood Engravers is producing four box sets of 20 engravings each to celebrate their centenary in 2020. Entitled the ‘Seasons’ project, each set celebrates one of the four seasons and showcases the talents of scores of SWE members. Abigail Rorer contributed her engraving The Storm Has Finally Ended to the first of

Abigail Rorer’s engraving The Stumpery received the ‘Outstanding Print From Overseas’ award in The Society of Wood Engravers 79th Annual Exhibition which will travel to various venues in the UK from 2016–2017. For more information go to: www.woodengravers.co.uk.

This new book is a tribute to four extinct species and an iconic fifth that nearly became extinct. It is the precursor to the larger book on extinction entitled Not So Long Ago which is in production. Find out more about Extinction.

St. Bartholomew’s is a collaborative book with engravings by Miriam Macgregor and Abigail Rorer. The book was designed and printed at the Whittington Press by Patrick Randle of Nomad Letterpress and published by The Lone Oak Press. The text is a walk through and around the church with personal commentary, historical facts, and anecdotes. Find

Abigail Rorer has engravings included in the 77th Annual Exhibition, 2014-2015, of the Society of Wood Engravers, UK. For more information go to: www.woodengravers.co.uk