Miriam Macgregor
Miriam Macgregor (born 1935) is a British author, illustrator,
wood engraver, and fine press
compositor. Born in
Shillong, Assam, Macgregor was educated at the
Guildford School of Art. She began her professional career in the art department of the publisher
B. T. Batsford, before becoming a freelance artist. In 1977, she began to work for the fine press publisher, Whittington Press. At the time, all type was set by hand. She still works at the Whittington Press as a compositor and illustrator. She has created images for other
fine press publishers, including the
Folio Society and Primrose Hill Press. Macgregor is a self-taught
wood engraver and member of the
Society of Wood Engravers and
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. She has furnished wood engravings for the horticultural journal, ''Hortus'', in addition to countless wood engravings and
pochoir illustrations for books and posters published by the Whittington Press. In addition to the texts she has illustrated, her subjects primarily concern English rural life, farming, architecture, botany, and felines. Macgregor has published several collections of her own images, and curated a collection of contemporary wood engravings of cats, published by Primrose Hill Press in 1999 as ''Cat cuts''.
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