Moschatel Press is a small press publisher producing artist's books and poetry collections. [1] It was founded in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, in 1973, by the artist Laurie Clark and the Scottish poet Thomas A. Clark and moved to Pittenweem, Fife in 2002. [2] The press "is named after adoxa moschatellina, a plant known locally as Town Clock for its four-way green flower heads, with a fifth flower facing the sky." [3] Their main line is in "publishing minimal texts, visual poetry and the like in small neat booklets and postcards." [4]
They have published work by Ian Hamilton Finlay among other artists; although most of their output is their own work [5] which frequently consists of reflections on nature. [6] A treadle press they were given as a wedding present inspired the founding of Moschatel Press, allowing them to print poems and send them to friends. [7] The treadle press was replaced by a tabletop Adana printing press.
Thomas A. Clark was born in Greenock, Scotland in 1944 and left school, "barely literate", at 15. He then worked in factories and warehouses for the next eight year, before realising "there was a world outside to be lived in". [8]
Clark moved to England in 1967.
Laurie Clark was born in New York in 1949 and married Thomas A. Clark in 1972.
In 1986 the Clarks established the Cairn Gallery initially in Days Mill, Nailsworth, and subsequently in Pittenweem. The Gallery an artist-run space, for land art, minimalism and lyrical or poetic conceptualism. [2]
The list of publications is first derived from the Moschatel Press Bibliography published by the press itself for an exhibition at the Coracle Press, Camberwell, from 1 December 1979 to 5 January 1980. The list of subsequent publications is not definitive. All works are by Thomas A. Clark unless otherwise stated.
A box set of 67 publications was issued in 1982. Further collections were issued as "A Box Of Landscapes" in 2010 and 2016, comprising publications spanning forty years of the Moschatel Press and others.
In addition to his work with Moschatel Press, Thomas A. Clark led a group of artists installing artworks in the new Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow for its opening in 2009. [9]
Publication Year | Title | Author | Artist | Notes |
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1973 | Fill In The Drawing | Laurie Clark | ||
1973 | Fritillary | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1973 | Folding The Last Sheep | Publication year not printed | ||
1973 | An Epitaph | |||
1973 | The Garden | |||
1974 | Horizon | |||
1974 | Four Flowers | |||
1974 | A Wee Tot For Catullus | Jonathan Williams | ||
1974 | Snowdrop | Ian Hamilton Finlay | Publication year not printed | |
1974 | Iris | Laurie Clark | ||
1974 | Shape & Shade | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1974 | September | Publication year not printed | ||
1974 | Not Now | Cid Corman | ||
1974 | A Basket of Landscapes | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1974 | Pebbles | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1975 | Glade | |||
1975 | Deserts of Afghanistan | Helen Williams | ||
1975 | L'Invitation Au Voyage | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1975 | Anemone | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1975 | Moss Stitch | Laurie Clark | ||
1975 | A Vase Of Daffodils | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1976 | Petits Fours | |||
1976 | Painted Lady | Laurie Clark | ||
1976 | Two Horizons | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1976 | Clare's "Journey Out Of Essex" | Simon Cutts | Laurie Clark | |
1976 | Thrums | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1976 | Hart's Tongue | Laurie Clark | ||
1977 | Foliations | Laurie Clark | ||
1977 | Two Acres | |||
1977 | The Bright Glade | Laurie Clark | ||
1977 | A Meadow Voyage | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1977 | Haystacks and Islands | Laurie Clark | ||
1978 | Nine Roses | Laurie Clark | ||
1978 | Fly Patterns For Still Waters | Laurie Clark | ||
1978 | Gatherings | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1978 | Water Cresses | Laurie Clark | ||
1978 | Quatrefoils | Laurie Clark | Printed for South West Review; publication year not printed | |
1979 | After Pissarro | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1979 | Two Evergreen Horizons | Laurie Clark | ||
1979 | A Glade Of Lances | |||
1979 | The Dappled Glade | Laurie Clark | ||
1979 | Style | Laurie Clark | ||
1979 | Of Leaves | Laurie Clark | ||
1979 | Proverbs Of The Meadow | Laurie Clark | Publication year not printed | |
1979 | Four English Flowers | Laurie Clark | ||
1979 | From A Glossary Of Old Scots | |||
1979 | Moschatel Press Bibliography | with introduction by Alan Tucker | Laurie Clark | 600 copies |
1979 | A Rock Pool | Laurie Clark | ||
1979 | In The Scottish Lowlands | |||
1979 | A Short Tour of the Highlands | Laurie Clark | ||
1979 | The Frog Leaps Thirteen Times | Laurie Clark | ||
1980 | Four Horizons | |||
1980 | Tansy Buttons | Laurie Clark | ||
1980 | A Herb Garden | 250 signed and numbered copies | ||
1980 | Adjectives For Grasses | Laurie Clark | ||
1980 | Proverbs Of The Mountain | Laurie Clark | 300 signed and numbered copies | |
1980 | Parenthetical Land | Laurie Clark | Card for opening of Alan & Joan Tucker's new bookshop, Stroud, Glos | |
1981 | A Delphinium Border | 200 numbered copies | ||
1981 | Dicotyledons | Laurie Clark | ||
1981 | From A Bookseller's Catalogue | |||
1981 | Four Fruits | 150 numbered copies | ||
1981 | Metamorphosis | |||
1981 | A Moth Glade | |||
1981 | Photography In The Open Air | Laurie Clark | ||
1981 | Ruin Wood | Laurie Clark | 200 numbered copies | |
1981 | Sixteen Sonnets | |||
1981 | Solos, Duets & Quartets | Simon Cutts | Laurie Clark | 125 signed and numbered copies |
1981 | The Tapestry | Laurie Clark | ||
1981 | Three Triolets | |||
1982 | A Dedication | Laurie Clark | ||
1982 | By Footpath & Stile | (no text) | Laurie Clark | 300 copies |
1982 | For Returning Warriors /In Memoriam | |||
1982 | Geum Rivale | Laurie Clark | 200 numbered copies | |
1982 | The Lacemaker | Laurie Clark | ||
1982 | Wayward Definitions | Laurie Clark | 200 copies; expanded edition published as "Vagrant Definitions" by Membrane Press, Shorewood, WI, 1984 | |
1982 | Three Colours | 200 numbered colours | ||
1982 | Moschatel Press | Stuart Mills | Laurie Clark | Essay for University of Warwick Library exhibition of books, cards and prints by Thomas A. Clark and Laurie Clark |
1982 | Twenty Four Sentences About The Forest | |||
1982 | Under The Brae | Laurie Clark | ||
1983 | In A Country Churchyard | (no text) | Laurie Clark | 200 copies |
1983 | Pauses and Digressions | Laurie Clark | 300 copies of which 12 are signed and hand-coloured | |
1983 | The Blue Boat, No. 1 | Robert Lax | Laurie Clark | Published as an occasional magazine |
1983 | The Blue Boat, No. 2 | Jean Follain | ||
1984 | Far Oak Ridge | Laurie Clark | ||
1985 | On Greta Bridge | Published jointly with Underwich Editions, Canada; 500 copies | ||
1986 | The Idle Road | Laurie Clark | 250 copies of which 20 are signed and hand-coloured | |
1987 | Six Triolets | Laurie Clark | ||
1989 | Through White Villages | |||
1989 | The Flowers of Ben Lawers | Laurie Clark | ||
1990 | Coire Fhionn Lochan | Laurie Clark | ||
1990 | From Sea To Sea | |||
1991 | Forest, Mountain, City | |||
1991 | The Philosophy Of Furniture | Simon Cutts | Laurie Clark | |
1991 | The Teachings of Huang Po | |||
1992 | Of Shade And Shadow | |||
1992 | On A Line From Yeats | |||
1993 | A Collect | |||
1994 | Gold And Silver | Laurie Clark | Christmas Card | |
1994 | Larch Covert | |||
1995 | Apples And Intervals | |||
1995 | Glade | |||
1995 | The Shape Changer | Laurie Clark | ||
1995 | Three Exercises | |||
1995 | Two Landscapes | |||
1996 | Morning, Evening | |||
1997 | A Standard Of Music | Laurie Clark | ||
1997 | An Interval | |||
1997 | May The Best Hour | |||
1997 | Taking Up Again | |||
1997 | Three Wishes | |||
1997 | A Melting of Snowflakes | Christmas Card | ||
1998 | At Dusk & At Dawn | |||
1998 | Four Greetings | Laurie Clark | Christmas Card | |
1999 | Forest Without Trees | |||
1999 | Shieling In The Brambles | |||
1999 | Stone | |||
1999 | Here is Rosemary | Laurie Clark | Christmas Card | |
2000 | Branches and Quinces | Christmas Card | ||
2001 | Twelve Proverbs | Laurie Clark | ||
2001 | Sparrows | Laurie Clark | Christmas Card | |
2004 | Gorse River Sequence | Laurie Clark | for Peter Larkin | |
2004 | The Year Of The Water Rail | Laurie Clark | ||
2005 | Frost & Snow | Laurie Clark | for Richard Valentine (Secondhand Bookseller, Nailsworth) | |
2005 | Harebell | Laurie Clark | ||
2006 | Blue | |||
2006 | Hazel Wood | |||
2006 | Wild Strawberries | Laurie Clark | ||
2007 | Dusk | |||
2007 | Floating Island | |||
2007 | Flow | |||
2007 | Little Burn | |||
2007 | Four Fruits (2) | |||
2007 | In The Black Wood | |||
2007 | Tràigh Balla | |||
2007 | Whenever You Linger | |||
2006/7 | Postcards | set of 6 | ||
2008 | Colour in the island | |||
2008 | From Many Waters | |||
2008 | Learning to be Blue | |||
2008 | of Woods & Water | |||
2008 | Sgiath nan Tarmachan | |||
2008 | Some Imaginary Flowers | for Eck | ||
2008 | Spring Summer | |||
2008 | Still Life with Fruit and Flower | |||
2008 | Taste is to Whisk | |||
2009 | A Lamp of Fish Oil | Christmas Card | ||
2010 | Sylviidae | Laurie Clark | ||
2010 | Delight; Fragrance; Thrift | Laurie Clark | 3 card set | |
2010 | Suspicion of Beauty | Laurie Clark | 5 card set | |
2010/2011 | Leave-Taking; Clearing; Crocus | Laurie Clark | 3 card set | |
2011 | Dipper | Laurie Clark | ||
2011 | Mint | |||
2011 | Unfolding Brightness | Christmas Card | ||
2012 | Gaelic Flowers | |||
2013 | Jay | Laurie Clark | ||
2014 | The Grove Of Delight | |||
2015 | Mist & Mountain | Laurie Clark | ||
2015 | The Quiet Island | Laurie Clark | ||
2015 | With | Laurie Clark | ||
2016 | Dove | |||
2016 | Star of Bethlehem | Christmas Card | ||
2017 | The Fort Of Stillness | |||
undated | An Lochan Uaine | |||
undated | An Affinity Of Eye And Petal | Laurie Clark | ||
undated | Adoxa | Printed in Fife |
Other published works by Thomas A. Clark include:
Other publications featuring drawings by Laurie Clark include:
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