We’re not busying ourselves with harvest this autumn, but with books to be packed, proofs to be checked, and new office puppies to be played with (of which, more news coming soon . . .) we might just need a rest under the apple tree by the end of the day. This is ‘Autumn’ by Simon Brett, which first appeared on the contents page of Slightly Foxed Issue 19.
About the contributor
Simon Brett was born in Windsor in 1943 and studied as a painter at Saint Martin’s School of Art. He moved on to wood engraving while teaching at Marlborough College Art School. Between 1981 and 1988, he published books under his own Paulinus Press imprint, and won the Francis Williams Illustration Award for ‘The Animals of Saint Gregory’. Since then he has worked as a self-employed artist, and has illustrated classic works for Th Folio Society including Jane Eyre, Middlemarch and the poetry of Keats, Shelley and Byron. He was Chairman of The Society of Wood Engravers until 1992, and remains closely associated with it. He also writes on the history, practice and condition of the art, and his book Wood Engraving — How To Do It was published in 1994.