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Discover an enthusiastic and experimental approach to printmaking, combining chine collé with drypoint and collagraph. This approach will give you dynamic new working processes and artistic possibilities. Collagraph is a printmaking technique based on collage. Prints are taken from plates constructed from textured materials assembled on a support. A vast range of cheap, recycled materials can be used to produce diverse and richly textured images.
Your tutor will demonstrate different methods of making collagraph plates, working with inks and tools. You will then experiment with mark-making textures to make plates, explore the limits of paper and ink, make samples of different techniques for making and inking plates for printing, learn how to choose papers and surfaces to print on and learn how to use an etching press.
Once you have created your collagraph plate, you will then incorporate a chine collé element. With these different surfaces and combinations, your options will become endless and provide new directions in your work. Your tutor will discuss the artistic considerations required to integrate imagery to make dynamic compositions. You will experiment with the techniques and be encouraged to find personal expression in your work.
The course will finish with an informal critique and discussion to consolidate your learning, and will provide feedback to take forward into your work after the course.
By the end of the course, you will have been introduced to diverse possibilities available to make unique marks with collagraphs. You will have started to learn how to think in textures and layers, and experimented with combining one or more impressions. You will know how to select appropriate materials and other resources for plate designs and gained an increased knowledge of papers and other surfaces for printing. You will have experienced using an etching press.
Printmaking inks and solvents, 14cm x 14cm plates
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Please wear appropriate clothing/aprons for the workshop or studio. This includes stout covered footwear, i.e. no open-toes or sandals.
Arrival day
Residential students can arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm for registration
6.45pm: Welcome, followed by dinner (included)
8 - 9pm: First teaching session, attendance is essential
Daily timetable
Course teaching 9.15am - 5pm (lunch included)
Dinner: from 6.30pm (included for residential students)
Evening working: students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with permission from the tutor and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed
Departure day
Course teaching: 9.15am - 3pm (lunch included)
Residential students will need to check out of rooms by 10am
Please note, the tutor may make slight variations to the daily timetable as required
Vicky is best known for her work as a printmaker. She is well represented by galleries across the UK, and has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer exhibition, The Mall Galleries and in Tokyo, Japan.
She has been published in The Printmakers Bible and Practical Printmaking.
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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