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Originally Posted by ooze  It's such a pity that not many great printers have a book of their work published. Only thanks to books, a wider audience has an idea about the printing of Adrian Ensor, Steve MacLeod, Larry Bartlett et.al.
The first time I've read anything about Bill Rowlinson is in Adrian Ensor's book, accompanied by the same portrait as in the link above and I've always wanted to know more about the man since.
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omar |
I agree with you. Knowledge, skill and experience are gained slowly and with much work and dedication. It's a terrible loss when that knowledge goes to the grave. Bill had toyed with the idea of doing a book and had been approached about it years ago but writing books wasn't really his thing. We talked about this a couple of times but he was quite dismissive of it in his latter days, but I think he would have liked to have left something behind.
He very kindly dug out a print for me that I asked to include in my toning book. He was very weak by then and walked with difficulty but after a few weeks found this 20x16 for me to copy.
He lived a very lone existence in his latter years. Having been told he was going to die from cancer he held his own wake, gave away his beloved cat Esme so that she wouldn't be left lone - and then didn't die for 10 years, by which time many people thought he was 'gone' and he lived alone in relative obscurity, and sadly without Esme.
A great loss
Tim
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