Paul Peter Piech graphic artist and printer, was born in Brooklyn New York and studied at the Cooper College of Art N.Y. In 1937 he worked as a graphic artist at Dorlands Advertising Agency under Herbert Bayer. Posted to Cardiff in the Second World War, he went on to study at Chelsea College of Art and in 1947 he married Irene Tomkins and made his home in Wales. In the late 1950’s he set up his own private press the Taurus Press and began issuing his own woodcuts and lino-cuts. From 1968 he worked as a freelance graphic artist and also taught at numerous art schools including Chelsea, Leicester and the London College of Printing. He died in Porthcawl, Wales in 1996.