After a year of being in sort-of recess, I am getting back into art making and growing an art business. Studio time is blocked out, and and a new collagraph print has been made. It’s a little different this time, as I decided to use a surface relief roll...
A new collagraph print with surface roll – Banksia serrata 3
The Story of Grace, my printing press
One of the disconcerting things about graduating from art school is that you lose access to specialised tools. I had discovered the joys of printmaking as a student, but now, suddenly, it became a lot harder to do. I was living in Brisbane, Australia at the time, and so...
In Memoriam – the story of a print
How did I come to write for a printmaking magazine? Pressing Matters is a wonderful, rather new printmaking magazine, that started in 2017. Their last article is always The Story Behind the Print, and while reading one earlier in the year, it occurred to me that I had a...
Printing a collagraph
COLLAGRAPH PRINTING IS A PROCESS For the last couple of months I’ve been very focused on getting this website built, even more so than the downsizing project. (Read why we have to start downsizing here.) But in between decisions about accumulated stuff, I felt the need of an art...