The artist Jen Bradley’s life changed in 1994 when she visited the Franklin Park Zoo to observe and record primate behavior for her biological anthropology class in her senior year at Mass. College of Art and Design. She found that the most intuitive way for her to do that was by drawing the gorillas.

The gorillas were purely conscious; their emotions seemed to flow through the glass to Bradley. This compelled her to return to draw them, at first every week and then a few days every month, for more than 25 years.  She refers to this ongoing series and...

D. R. (Bob) Wakefield – printmaker, sculptor, scenic artist and recluse – is currently running the Chevington Press, publishing small editions of etchings and books with etchings.

A lifelong collector of books on a multitude of subjects, he came to embrace the world of the private press relatively late. His mentor and friend, the American Leonard Baskin, could not have been more distinguished within that world, and for many formative years Bob worked alongside Baskin, absorbing the finer points of presswork, and printing for the Eremite Press.

In the eighties Bob tentatively began to publish his own books on angling...