• Penrose Press

Hi, I'm Brianna

Penrose Press is my bookarts practice. That means I sometimes make books, and I sometimes make art objects that give you the reading-feeling without bearing a strong resemblance to the codex format. This photo was taken by my partner after a nine hour day of carving and printing on repeat, until I had finished an edition of reduction linocuts. I look a little strained, haha. I often lose myself in making the way you might lose yourself in a book: until someone has to call your name several times to bring you back to the present. 

I'm not a writer, but I've been so lucky to collaborate with several super talented authors and poets.

When I work with another creative, which is often, we each bring our various skills to the table to try and make something more than the sum of our parts. You can click here to read about some of my awesome collaborators, and here if you think you might want to make a thing together in the future!

Book Collaborations

Conversations with the Ocean

Coming this fall is my most recent collaboration with Evelyn Elgie: three poster-chapbooks full of heartwrenching poetry about the balance between holding on and letting go. And did I mention? The books will have to be drenched in water before you can read them. It's getting weird and experimental over here.

What is the reading-feeling?

I definitely made up this word to try and express the goodness of simultaneous adventure and safety. The experience of education through entertainment. The mood that comes over you when you enter a library or brew a cup of tea on a winter afternoon. Allow me to feed (or cultivate) your love of the reading-feeling.

Art Prints