The Gray Goose Press is a non commerical press. It is a name given to the first press, a table model platen press, made by Kelsey, in Meriden, Conneticut. It was painted battleship gray, and had a long goose neck handle. Thus the name "The Gray Goose Press". The second press is a Chandler & Price floor model, made in Cleveland, Ohio. It is also painted gray. They were used commercially in the past, but are now used for fine art prints only.

Ken Bloomhorst has spent his whole life nurturing a great appreciation for nature. Since his youth in the countryside near Fairborn, Ohio, he has rendered both faithfully and fancifully what his artistic eye sees. Ken earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio and attended William and Mary University in Norfolk, Virginia. He was rewarded with an award winning career as an art director and graphic designer for many of the leading studios and advertising agencies in the Midwest.

A nature lover and environmentalist, his most prestigious logo was for "The United States Environmental Protection Agency", signed into law by the President of the United States. Ken also has materials on display in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. He is also represented in the Library of Congress.

His work has been shown at the Circulating Gallery of the Dayton Art Institute, the Norfolk Art Museum, the Hoosier Salon, the Watercolor Society of Indiana, Pendrod Society Art Fair, the Indiana State Fair, the Fishers Festival of Art, the Hamilton County Art Association and is represented in many galleries and private collections nationally.

To pick new design subjects for his prints, Ken does a great deal of close-up photography in the woods surrounding his home south of Noblesville, Indiana. Ken is the sole proprietor of "The Gray Goose Press", two antique platen presses, where he creates hand pulled linoleum block multi-colored limited edition prints.

He recently designed a commercially printed open edition series of twelve original wildflower studies, each accented with a distinctive touch that inspires the imagination with the beauty of realism. The bounty and beauty of nature continues to blossom in Bloomhorst's wildflower series.