I created this acorn and oak leaf lino print recently to teach my community art group, and everyone had great fun carving and printing. I thought I would share my tip for creating an autumnal gradient blend for printing lino … Read More
Some more beautiful pieces of reduction lino printing for you (read my previous post for a few more details on the reduction lino printing method). These were all created by members of the weekly community art group that I teach. … Read More
I’m very pleased to announce a new workshop taking place on Saturday November 24th 2018, from 10am to 4pm, at the former Herb Patch, now Osana, Ebchester. We’ll spend the day creating paper bead jewellery made from our own monoprinted … Read More
I’ve been wanting to play with gelatin plate printing for quite a while, but as the commercial plates are pretty expensive, I hadn’t yet managed to have a try. Over the past few weeks I’ve been teaching collagraph printmaking, and … Read More
I was really pleased to be asked to conduct an introduction to lino printing class at Lanchester Monday Art Group last week. There were 20 people in the class and I took everyone through the basics of lino cutting and … Read More
I’m really pleased to announce that Tanfield Railway have asked me to deliver some lino printing activities over several weekends both this month and in May. I have created two lino prints of locomotives that are based at Tanfield Railway, … Read More
As part of my current series of workshops for Colour Your Life, I taught a session on printing onto fabric, using the lino prints that my students had made in previous weeks. The piece above and the ones below are … Read More
The printmaking workshops I’ve been running with Colour Your Life this month (and next) are going really well, and everyone is producing such beautiful work, I just had to share it with you! These first pieces are collagraph prints, where … Read More
One thing I tell my workshop students over and over again is – experiment! This is the way you will develop your own style and techniques, find out what works for you and what doesn’t, how your art materials respond … Read More
