A GRAND DAY OUT

Yesterday morning I packed the car at 6 am to head off to Twenty Twenty Gallery in Much Wenlock to deliver a Quick Collagraph workshop for them.

The weather looked promising and when I arrived

Much Wenlock looked it's idyllic best.

I knew I was in the right place as I found this word in the car park!!

9 willing victims   learners arrived and everything was set up for a fast and furious collagraph making session.

Quick collagraph consists of applying self adhesive tapes to mount board and cutting and peeling the surface.

No waiting for glue or varnish to dry, just make a plate and print it!

Oil based inks were used for the best possible results and I tried out a new idea on this enthusiastic group.

I had given them 3 different sized pieces of card

and encouraged to them to make 3 plates.

Inked up in different colours then

printed the plates on top of each other.

The results were rich juicy coloured prints with the option

of printing each plate separately

the Priory Hall was buzzing with activity.

After a delicious lunch, thank you Claire for looking after us, 

it was onto chine collee.

Love it or loath chine collee, that added piece of coloured tissue

can make such a difference to a piece.

Thank you everyone for being experimental and trying these complex processes with such gusto. Thank you Mary, owner of Twenty Twenty Gallery  for organising this successful class.

 My next workshop in Much Wenlock will be 24 September, Viscosity Monoprinting contact the gallery for booking details.

LINO MASTER CLASS

This weekend saw the yard:ARTspace hosting it's most ambitious workshop yet

a Lino print Master class.

In 2 days we covered reduction lino cut techniques,

2 block colour separation,

offset registration,

Blended rolls in inking and

chine collee.

Despite the dull weather the Work room

was filled with colour and

vigorous experimentation.

lots of work was made and

the over flow airer was deployed.

It was non stop printmaking all weekend.

Thanks to Hawthorn inks who had sent me samples to try we

discovered that the prints semi dried over night and did not have the sticky quality I usually find with oil based ink when relief printing...worth more experimentation. 

This was the last weekend workshop for this term, for details of more goings on at the yard:ARTspace go to www.theyardartspace.com or join the yard facebook page, or join my mailing list to be updated, details at the top of the post.

THE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT FESTIVAL WHERE THE FUN IS IN TENTS!!

The lovely Rob and I crammed the car with tent and enamel this weekend to brave the English summer weather.

We were in Bovey Tracey at the Contemporary Craft Festival 

I was selected to show my enamel work alongside over 200 talented and creative makers.

Camping where the fun is in tents, a joke I never get tired of. This was Brown HQ for the weekend, here is the lovely Rob planning a days walking.

There was so much to see at the Festival, Amanda Denison, a fellow enameler,

Ceramic sculptor, Felicity Lloyd-Coombes 

Amanda Anderson.

I had a giant budgie moment with the work of Charlotte Miller and I am the proud owner of a brooch thanks to the lovely Sharon McSwiney who was also showing at Bovey

I loved the ideas behind Vinegar and Brown Paper

Sunday morning meant a fried start to the day.

Felt Folk met my needs after I had been given a corsage pattern

by the lovely Hens Teeth aka Viv who made my weekend light and frothy...thank you.

Sunday morning was all about personalities...look who came to visit me? 

My stand neighbors provided none stop banter, thank you Mat and the very stylish

Ben for keeping spirits high.

The super talented Sarah Morpeth was showing work, and I am very excited as she is planning workshops for the yard:ARTspace in 2017...watch this space.

So 3 days sped by, thank you to all the lovely people who visited me and chatted art over the weekend. So this time next month come and see my evil twin at the last ever Art in Action, 

Waterperry, Oxfordshire where I will be in the printmaking tent and Sarah will be in the illustration tent.