PRINTMAKING IN WALES

Saturday 1st December 2012 

“Turner” Silkscreen Panels Cardiff University 2009

A one day  introductory workshop to learn, or develop, the basis of this popular process. This workshop is open to all and offers an opportunity to work toward a number of possible outcomes. This is workshop is tailor made to suit those who may wish to use the faciltiles ata later date.

The Day will include:   Degreasing and prepping the Screen. Creating a photo and a hand drawn stencil. Photo application using the exposure unit with basic colour mixing and paper selection with use of the silkscreen table and proof printing.

Basic materials such as the screen, ink, acetate and proofing paper are included. Specialist paper and a range of inks are available to purchase at the studio.

Daily Rate  10 am – 4 pm.  Cost: reduced from £65 to £50

Three Colour Plate Etching Workshop with Printmaker Isie Wise

Saturday 8th December 2012 

Kite in Flight 2011 Copper etching (triple layered) 104 x 75 cm

 The Day will include:   Printing with process colours, an etching workshop. This workshop will teach you to layer etchings and create the illusion of a three dimensional image. This simple but effect process driven proceedure produces ethereal imagery and can generate amazingly varied results. An example of this process is pictured above.

Daily Rate  10 am – 4 pm.  Cost: reduced from £65 to £50

Collagraph Workshop with Printmaker Carla Shepard

Saturday 15th December 2012

This hands-on approach to printmaking will allow you to create wonderful imagery using a range of materials to create tone and texture. This process gives a lot of freedom to explore other techniques within it, such as drypoint, which helps create a complex array of marks and really allows you to play within the depths of more than one printmaking area at a time. This is a basic technique with great results.

Daily Rate 10 am – 4 pm. Cost: reduced from £65 to £50

All participants must book in advance to secure their place, as classes tend to fill up very quickly. Places are restricted to just five to allow individuals more time to use the facilities provided.

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3.20m – 48.08t – 5910s

Friday 25 May — Sunday 1 July 2012

This exhibition marks the culmination of work  which Williams began during a three – month residency at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Initially consisting of drawings, photographs, notes and ideas it has transformed into prints and large-scale works produced specifically for Chapter.

Utilising traditional methods of printmaking — woodcuts/engraving, lithography and stone — Williams uses print as a vehicle with endless possibilities. Each journey is mapped and logged in the form of a series of drawings and photographs that ultimately become realised as large woodcut block and prints, displayed here side by side on the Caffi Bar walls. The pace, time and distance is logged, which in turn informs the title of each work.

A passion for running is a key inspiration in the work including the inspirational views experienced during Williams’ ‘journeys’ and the pace of running — methodical and rhythmic — which is replicated in the working and cutting of the block.

Biography

Pete Williams studied at Cheltenham School of Art & Design and received an MA in Fine Art, Printmaking at Brighton University. He is currently UWIC Associate Lecturer in BA/MA printmaking and the Founder/Director of Print Market Project — a new Sculpture & Printmaking Workshop.

Solo exhibitions include Open Studio, Aberystwyth Arts Centre; RK Burt Gallery, London (both 2012) and ‘New York Commercial’, Blackburn 20/20 Gallery, New York (2011). Group exhibitions include ‘New Prints’, Autumn International Print Centre, Chelsea, New York and Visual Arts Center at The University of Texas, Austin (2011).

Forthcoming group exhibitions include ‘Between Spaces’, Aberystwyth Arts Centre Gallery (2013) and ‘New Works’, RK Burt Gallery, London (2012). Recent commissions include Hapus Ice-Cream Factory, Machen Mountain Sculpture Trail, Wales (2010); KALEID editions Gallery, London; Sydney Nolan Trust, Wales (both 2009).

Williams was awarded an international collaborative residency with Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York, including a solo exhibition (2011); Artist in Residence at Aberystwyth Arts Centre (2010) and International Artist in Residence at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland (2008).

to all involved. 

We set up the studio and the stand then we all talked, all day and had

 over 100 people came over to the studio to checked out the workshop.

Very pleased..

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The Print Market project – Open Studio Sunday 15th April  11am – 5pm

On the 15th of April the Studio will be open for view.

Our studio is literally a stone throws away from Chapters Art Car Bootique  (where we also have a pitch) so feel free to cross the road and have a look – find out about the different print activities we offer.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Vikki Hall graduated from the MA Printmaking course at the University of Wales, Newport in 2011.  With a background in photography she has always been interested in issues concerning representations of landscape and ideas involving nature in visual art.  Such interest has been explored and developed within her printmaking practice.  This has been achieved through work that has bought together the physicality of nature and printmaking techniques with emotional inner states and external physical expression.  This bought about a desire to produce images of nature that would go beyond literal representations into more expressive and abstract images.  Developing issues and interests within Vikki’s work that have been carried forward into her most recent practice involves the act of autographic mark-making through the expression of thoughts and feelings derived from the subconscious mind.

5th & 6th May 2012

Saturday & Sunday  10 – 4 pm  Cost: £90 for the weekend.

Tutor & Artist : Pete Williams

This workshop will run along Williams’ show planned  for mid May at Chapter Arts Centre.

This workshop will be running over a Saturday & Sunday and will allow you to work on a large-scale project using specialist tools and techniques. All cutting and preparation of woodcut to take place on Saturday with final printing on Sunday. Basic print, wood block and equipment included. 

The workshop will include:

Block selection.

Preparing and drawing the block.

Use of cutting tools and demonstration of effects.

Multi block printing.

Hand burnishing techniques.

Paper selection

Proof printing using the studio presses.

Basic materials such as a small block, ink, sundries and proofing paper are included in the cost. Larger blocks and specialist paper are available to purchase at the studio.

All participants must book in advance to secure their place, as classes tend to fill up very quickly. Places are restricted to just six to allow individuals more time to use the facilities provided.

This one or two day workshop will give you an insight into etching. This workshop is ideal for the beginner or to refresh your knowledge.

Day 1

The workshop will include:

Preparation of Zinc Plates.

Including use of both hard and soft grounds.

Drawing and mark making procedures.

Acid Etching.

Inking and Wiping.

Paper selection and proof printing.

Using the etching presses.

Day 2

Covers all of the above plus :

Dry-point techniques in combination

with other mark making procedures.

Spay-on Aquatint.

Basic materials such as ink, a small plate and proofing paper are included with larger plates and paper available to purchase at the studio.

Day 1:

10 am – 4 pm.

Cost:  £65

Day 1 & 2:

10 am – 4 pm.

Cost:  £125

All participants must book in advance to secure their place, as classes tend to fill up very quickly. Places are restricted to just six to allow individuals more time to use the facilities provided.