Seedlings III: Autumn (Limited Edition)

Seedlings is a series that follows the path of the year, returning us to the rhythms of nature. Opening with Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Ferryman’, Seedlings III: Autumn explores how we relate to our planet in the autumn of 2024. The work of over sixty artists fills this rich collection of stories, art, essays, poetry, and song.

Autumn is a season where the heaviness of summer — its rushing energy and its sultry long evenings — falls. We are left with the ageing year’s detritus and as artists we reflect on what harvest we have to see us through the solitude of winter. Seedlings III: Autumn features over 20 typeset and handprinted poems, recipes, songs, essays, photography, paintings and more. Highlights include the menu of an equinox mushroom banquet with Paul Stamets by Chippy Grant, reflections on life through a train carriage window from Alex Haydn-Williams, and handprinted one-off pieces: paper by Giove Pereira, a poem by Becca Drake and a wood engraving by Yijia Yang.

Printed and bound by Seedlings at the London Centre for Book Arts in August-November 2024, on a pair of Vandercooks called Basil and Jane. We also used a mix of risograph and digital methods. Paperback edition available at a more affordable price.

Text and art printed on G.F. Smith accent recycled paper, parch marque and Ingres paper. The cover is made of post-consumer fibres and sustainable raw materials, with 90% of the water used returned to source at the Neenah Mill on the Fox River, Wisconsin. Cover and illustration designs by Corran Green. Handmade paper frontispiece by Giove Pereira.

Founder, printer and literary editor — Will J. Wood

Art director and designer — Corran Green

Associate printer — Harry Scupham

Handmade edition of 100.

ISBN: 978-1-83709-000-6

Artists featured -

Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane

Giove Pereira

James Stewart

Demelza Kingston

Ella Rees

Ezra M. Serra

Elwen Bernard

Emma Lindsay

Rachel Battersby

Ben Hefter

Amber Tatham

Kristel Collison

Jesse Engelhart

Kit Muir

Tilly Aistrop

Amelia Wright

Rachel Hunt

David Mullin

Alessia Fenwick

Petra Pálkovácsová

V mhari THURSTON TYLER

Lorra Ley

Dila T. Günay

Charlotte Husnjak

Caitlin Jakusz Paridy

Divya Kishore

Christiana Doucette

Rachel Roe

Kate Maddocks

João Pedro Santos Destro

Jesse Hill

Alex Haydn-Williams

Andie Aylsworth

Lewis Leicher

Holly E. Wilson

Aleena Sharif

Nayiri Gharibian Saki

GIA Jones

Nelia Kjellgen

VIA PERKINS

Katie Cload

Eloise Slade

Zoe Adrien Lapa

Kirsty Strang Roy

Kamilė Iljinaitė

Daisy Rowe

Kirsty Strang Roy

Abi Turner

Alice Zakharenko

Abi Turner

James Peppercorn

Connor Rowlett

Beth Richards

Vanessa Stöter

Archie Hamerton

Jack Ashton

James Micheal Kelly Herrigan

Rachel Mia Williams

Peter Chippy Grant

Fay Lorien & Caitlin Jakusz Paridy

Simeon Smith

Laurelle De-Gisi

Anna Rooney

Helen Victoria Murray

Yijia Yang

Ben Hefter

Will J. Wood

Becca Drake