Artists in Inventory

 

Artist Statement

Sandy Ticock’s lone goose press is dedicated to excellence in the crafts of typographic design, letterpress printing and bookbinding. Over the last two decades, proprietor Sandy Tilcock’s work has been recognized for its impeccable and imaginative craftsmanship and design. The subtlety and refinement of her work keeps it understated, in keeping with her philosophy, “Do good work and allow the work to speak for itself.”

lone goose press produces limited-edition books and broadsides whose content is contemporary: writings of living authors with original graphics by working studio artists. The means is traditional: letterpress printing using lead type and a hand-cranked cylinder proofing press. Employing these “hands-on” technologies at the press is not intended to replicate historical printing methods, but to honor and value the fine press books and broadsides as an artistic object as well as a vessel for ideas.

Sandy states, “I am an unabashed throwback. The work I do has its roots in an age of printing and publishing when books were rare and honored objects. I love the physical process of making books, the direct interaction with paper, metal type, and ink, and the rhythms of binding by hand.”

The press’s mission is to promote book arts, to celebrate outstanding writing, and to foster conversation about community, social justice, and environmental ethics. Sandy is committed to working in a spirit of collaboration with clients, authors, and artists. She sees her role as creating unity among text, image and binding structure.

Artist Biography

Sandy Tilcock has been involved with traditional book arts for over 25 years. Her deepening interest in the craft of hand bookbinding led her to enroll at the University of Alabama’s Book Arts Institute, where she completed a Master of Fine Arts in 1987. While at Alabama, she developed a keen interest in printing and typography. She studied letterpress printing with the Institute’s director, Richard-Gabriel Rummonds.

lone goose press was founded following her return to Eugene. The name of the press derives from a passage in Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac. Leopold’s curious observation of the occasional solitary Canada goose during the Spring migration resonated with her sense of sudden isolation starting a one-person enterprise after leaving the collegial support of the Institute. In addition to her lone goose work, Sandy served for 7 years as Director of Knight Library Press at the University of Oregon.

Over her book arts career, Sandy has printed works by Barry Lopez, Kim Stafford, Pattiann Rogers, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, David James Duncan, Terry Tempest Williams, Naomi Shihab Nye, Robert Bly and Sherman Alexie. Sandy states “I am an unabashed throwback. The work I do has its roots in an age of printing and publishing when books were rare and honored objects. I love the physical process of making books, the direct interaction with paper, metal type, and ink, and the rhythms of binding by hand.”

lone goose press is dedicated to excellence in the crafts of typographic design, letterpress printing and bookbinding. Over the last two decades, proprietor Sandy Tilcock’s work has been recognized for its impeccable and imaginative craftsmanship and design. The subtlety and refinement of her work keeps it understated, in keeping with her philosophy, “Do good work and allow the work to speak for itself.”

The press’s mission is to promote book arts, to celebrate outstanding writing, and to foster conversation about community, social justice, and environmental ethics. lone goose press produces limited-edition books and broadsides whose content is contemporary: writings of living authors with original graphics by working studio artists. The means is traditional: letterpress printing using lead type and a hand-cranked cylinder proofing press. Employing these “hands-on” technologies at the press is not intended to replicate historical printing methods, but to honor and value the book/broadside as an artistic object as well as a vessel for ideas. Sandy is committed to working in a spirit of collaboration with clients, authors, and artists. She sees her role as creating unity among text, image and binding structure.