Chili wins Printmaking Today Award

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I was delighted to receive the Printmaking Today Award for "Innovative Printmaking" from it's Editor, Nancy Campbell, at the Fine Press Book Fair in Oxford 2013, for Chili: a recipe.
"Prize-winning chili in an award-winning book."

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