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Miriam Macgregor (born 1935) is a British author, illustrator, wood engraver, and fine press compositor. Born in Shillong, Assam, Macgregor was educated at the Guildford School of Art.[1] She began her professional career in the art department of the publisher B. T. Batsford, before becoming a freelance artist.[2] In 1977, she began to work for the fine press publisher, Whittington Press.[3][4] At the time, all type was set by hand.[5] She still works at the Whittington Press as a compositor and illustrator. She has created images for other fine press publishers, including the Folio Society[1] and Primrose Hill Press. Macgregor is a self-taught wood engraver[2] and member of the Society of Wood Engravers and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. She has furnished wood engravings for the horticultural journal, Hortus, in addition to countless wood engravings and pochoir illustrations for books and posters published by the Whittington Press.[2] In addition to the texts she has illustrated, her subjects primarily concern English rural life, farming, architecture, botany, and felines.[6] Macgregor has published several collections of her own images, and curated a collection of contemporary wood engravings of cats, published by Primrose Hill Press in 1999 as Cat cuts.[7]
Selected titles
- Midwinter: wood-engravings. (Whittington Press, 2012)
- Miriam Macgregor: thirty-one wood engravings chosen by the artist with an autobiographical note. (Primrose Academy & Rampant Lions Press, 2003)
- Cat cuts: a collection of engravers' cats. (Primrose Hill Press, 1999)
- New Castle: a brief encounter. (Whittington Press, 1998)
- Country chaos. (Whittington Press, 1980)
References
External links
- Whittington Press
- Modern British Wood Engraving video, featuring Miriam Macgregor (trailer for longer video by Society of Wood Engravers)
- Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers biographical statement
- Short biography, Slightly Foxed website