Georgina Estill

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I recently learnt that my friend Peter Scarratt has passed away. I’m devastated so did the only thing that felt right an...
23/05/2025

I recently learnt that my friend Peter Scarratt has passed away. I’m devastated so did the only thing that felt right and made a print.

Anyone who knew Peter will know his kindness, generosity and warmth. He is a huge part of the reason I print today and without him I wouldn’t have a Letterpress studio.

I met Peter at Amberley Museum where he was head of the print workshop—I volunteered for a few months after uni finished and we became great pals. (He was even my +1 at degree show opening night in London).

Peter kitted me out with my Adana press, leading, spacing, furniture etc and boxes of type to take away and print with. And each time we met up he would have a boot full of gear for me to take away. He taught me all sorts of tips and tricks and nurtured my growth and confidence.

We kept in touch with emails and a video call from time to time to discuss life, printing, what I was doing wrong and how to fix it. Peter came into my life at a difficult time when I struggled with my mental health and he made such a massive impact on making me feel like myself again.

I am intensely sad to lose someone so special to me but also very glad that he was part of my life, I’ll remember him in my heart and with every print I make. Hope he knew how much he meant to me, a social median post seems such a tiny tribute.

Rest in peace Peter 💔

Hey gang, got my one and only Christmas market for this year on Saturday! Swipe for details 👉🏼If you’re about in Whitby ...
04/12/2023

Hey gang, got my one and only Christmas market for this year on Saturday! Swipe for details 👉🏼

If you’re about in Whitby please pop in say hi, me and lots of my wonderfully creative pals will be there with all sorts of Christmas treats✨

Side note: I am going to post a load of stuff I’ve made over the last year on here soon, I don’t know why I’ve been so precious about posting I guess I decided nobody would be interested in what I made… silly little confidence crisis aside, it’s really nice to print and be public about it again. More to follow! ###

Happy Christmas to you & yours! WHAT a year… ups, downs, lefts & rights! Tough times to help me appreciate the wonderful...
25/12/2022

Happy Christmas to you & yours! WHAT a year… ups, downs, lefts & rights! Tough times to help me appreciate the wonderful ones.

Thanks for hanging around to see what I’ve been up to, next year I may or may not get better at posting what I make (can’t make any promises I might not keep hehe!)

Basically though, I hope you all have had a fab bit of time off with your families & those who haven’t had any time off, a big old thank you to you❤️‍🔥

Tis the season for peace & joy, lots of love friends! Health & happiness for next year x

Commission I made for can’t wait for her to have hold of it!18pt Perpetua bold & 12pt Goudy are a bloody lovely combo i...
09/12/2022

Commission I made for can’t wait for her to have hold of it!

18pt Perpetua bold & 12pt Goudy are a bloody lovely combo if I do say so myself…

Commission for young Zak, lover of Jackass, Roger Miller and all things silly.Don’t know if you knew… you can’t drive ar...
27/11/2022

Commission for young Zak, lover of Jackass, Roger Miller and all things silly.

Don’t know if you knew… you can’t drive around with a tiger in your car, but you can be happy if you’ve a mind to! 😉

BIG LETTERPRESS WEEKENDER!Next weekend I’ll be at a couple of events—selling my prints at The Homestead Goathland on Fri...
25/11/2022

BIG LETTERPRESS WEEKENDER!

Next weekend I’ll be at a couple of events—selling my prints at The Homestead Goathland on Friday & running a workshop at The Old School House RHB on Saturday.

I’ve took it easy this year and these are the only fairs I’m involved in leading up to Christmas so if you’re desperate to see me and my beautiful press in action (which I know you obviously are, I mean who isn’t) this is your only chance! Hope to see ya x

This mini print is actually a fair few months old, typeset and printed on my press for my legendary crew manager at Bay ...
01/11/2022

This mini print is actually a fair few months old, typeset and printed on my press for my legendary crew manager at Bay fire station.

I’d write a chunk about how courage isn’t the absence of fear yada yada yada but it’s frankly too cliche for me. I’ll keep it brief.

Do stuff scared. Make a t**t of yourself. Trust yourself to get through it. Use fear as your driving force not the brakes. Most of all, find value in the uncomfortable, try lean into it. The challenge helps us move forward—to learn—to grow.

I’ll be at Homestead’s first Christmas fair with my press & prints! You’re all invited x
01/11/2022

I’ll be at Homestead’s first Christmas fair with my press & prints! You’re all invited x

This week I went up to the Spanish City in Whitley Bay to collect my print from a recent Northern Typography exhibition...
04/08/2022

This week I went up to the Spanish City in Whitley Bay to collect my print from a recent Northern Typography exhibition.

It’s a photolithography print from a 4 year old university project on vernacular (in particular the northern language from my home village). Pull quotes from interviews with local folk were layered over contour lines from a map of Robin Hood’s Bay, configured onto a metal lithographic plate and printed using Bertha the giant offset press—the print combines typography and topography to present place specific language.

Exhibiting my work after more than 2 years off (cheers covid) was proper cool actually and I’m dead grateful to the wonderful & who made the journey up with me and a day in Whitley Bay/Tynemouth so delightful.

Guys guys guys guys I’m an aunty!My big brother and his amazing fiancé made me a baby niece and she’s perfect and I coul...
31/03/2022

Guys guys guys guys I’m an aunty!

My big brother and his amazing fiancé made me a baby niece and she’s perfect and I couldn’t be more proud. Printed these here birth announcements with Goudy & Cheltenham on my good sturdy white wild 300gsm to celebrate.

Never thought I cared much about babies but I am utterly besotted with little Freddie she’s a little dream! Looking forward to watching her try to human as she grows.

Big big thanks Helena & Dan for adding to the Estill clan she is so loved already. I’m gonna be the best bloody aunty ever I promise♥️

Easily one of my favourite pieces I’ve created thus far. A heartfelt commission for the sister of a wonderful woman who ...
21/03/2022

Easily one of my favourite pieces I’ve created thus far. A heartfelt commission for the sister of a wonderful woman who has shown such amazing strength to have gone through what can only be described as absolute hell for herself and her family. I’m told that it is displayed framed by her bedside as a reminder everyday of how far she has come and how small progress is very much still progress.

It fills my heart to be able to provide something with such profound meaning and to know I’ve made an impact on helping somebody to feel better. This is what it’s all about guys!

Bit of background on the quote—Émile Coué was a French psychologist who developed popular methods of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on his technique of optimistic autosuggestion. Great guy basically taught how to harness the power of positive thinking.

This here is an awesome piece of print for a very talented craftsman and pal from way back to our school days. Hooray fo...
21/02/2022

This here is an awesome piece of print for a very talented craftsman and pal from way back to our school days. Hooray for Merrick aka and his handcrafted gorgeous leather goods like wallets, sleeves and holders.

Merrick commissioned me to set Aesop Rock’s lyrics about materialistic matters of the mundane. As a fellow craftsperson we share a passion for creating small batches of work that matter. The typeset snippet from ‘Coffee’ encapsulates a scathing social commentary on consumerism—the track draws biblical and philosophical references denouncing passive observation, the phenomena of entitled baby boomers and outlines the worthless qualities of tchotchke hell (tchotchke is a trinket or small object that is purely decorative and devoid of function, such as a porcelain doll).

“More in a cave with a torch on the wall than a window arrangement of porcelain dolls” essentially states the fact that a shadow—a silhouette reflection of reality (a nod to Plato’s cave)—holds more value than a load of collectable crap with no actual purpose other than to fill a space.

This was a such great little print to produce, set in 14pt Univers Bold onto a hefty Colorplan White Frost in a robust 540gsm.

There’s plans for further work with Merrick which is mega exciting, if you haven’t seen his leather wallets before I suggest you go and do so right now! They are epic. Watch this space for a cool collab oh great things are coming my friends :-)

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