“When asked, Hugh would often describe himself, and those of us lucky enough to work alongside him, as 'backroom boys'. Inky fingered printers 'stuck somewhere back in the eighteenth century'. He was referring, I think, to the raw materials of the studio space--copper plates, ink, scrim, dampened paper, wool blankets, presses--none of which have changed very much in over two hundred years, or would indicate that anything 'cutting edge' might take place.”