Pear Prints

I just noted that it is almost a year since I posted so thought it was time for another. It isn't that I haven't done anything in a year but there have been a few changes around here, the biggest is that my partner has retired. Last year I taught a few workshops and spent quite a bit of time making preparations and samples for these. So far this year I have three workshops scheduled the first was last weekend and it was making paper from denim and making books based on the accordion or concertina structure. In preparation I made quite a lot of denim pulp and a blank accordion that I thought I should add some prints to. I pulled out some old lino and MDF cuts and printed them onto some 300 gsm hahnemuhle that I had left over from another project.

I had a whole set of pear prints but at the same time we had lots of pears on our tree and the lorikeets were really getting stuck into them so we picked them all even though they were very green. I figured I'd try cutting one in half and printing from it and I had a lovely time and was pretty pleased with the results.

Then I made some collages and made some cards with pear prints.

My first accordion I filled with collages and pear prints.

The next two are blank inside and have pear prints and collage on the covers.

Cards and workshop

There are still a few spaces left in the Beginners Papermaking workshop that I am running for Papermakers of Victoria next week.
You can still enrol at the papermakers website.
As part of the class I'll be teaching basic recycling and will cover fibre selection, pulp making, sizing, sheet forming, pressing and drying. In addition we will emboss paper, make paper with various inclusions and do a small bit of pulp painting. Participants will come away with around 30 sheets of beautiful paper.

I have been having a lovely time lately making gelatine prints and making cards from them, I've been really happy with some of the effects I've been getting.
I have added some to my Etsy shop and there will also me some for sale at the Alcove Art Shop and Open Drawer.

new work

Some new books

 

And cards featuring cyanotypes

And an artwork for 'Camberwell on Canvas', runs from 14 November to 1 December 2013. The piece is called Cinema, coffee, clothes, culture, Camberwell and consists of a series of lino prints on discs of paper made from cotton and plant fibre. The background paper is made from yukka and daphne bast fibre.

upcoming events

I am part of a couple of upcoming events, the first one being The Wonderful Printed Things Fair organised by Rona Green at the Abbotsford Convent on the afternoon of 10th September. I usually avoid markets but this looks like an interesting one AND is only a few hours. Mind you I'll have to get busy and make some books, not sure when that's going to happen though I have started preparing some sections and some leather for some simple leather journals (no printing though!) I will take along a display of some artist books but have some journals as well.

The other thing I'm involved with is BATS Boroondara Artists Travelling Show that is on Saturday 8 October and there will be a shuttle bus running between about four locations including artist studios, Kew Court House and the AGRA Gallery in Camberwell road. We have a launch for the website http://www.batsonline.com.au/ this coming Sunday.

When: Saturday 8 October 2011
Time: 11am - 3pm
Venue: Tour starts at Studio 63, Bowen Street Camberwell

For bookings boroondaraartists@gmail.com or go to the website boroondaraartists

I have also been pretty busy with IAPMA business especially the Silver Exhibition that I am coordinating in celebration of IAPMA's 25th birthday. The dates for that will be 19 October to 5 November with the opening 22 October. I am having a day photographing the over 100 works tomorrow, that will be a big day, then I'll start putting the Bulletin together. The Bulletin is going to be a catalogue of the exhibition and will be the biggest Bulletin ever.