Essdee sponsors Print Day in May
Essdee are proud to be sponsoring Print Day in May for the third year running. Our mission is to inspire the next generation of artists and printmakers, so PDiM is a fantastic opportunity for us to help encourage people to get printing. We are a UK manufacturer of lino printing and…
Printopia Festival of Original Prints
Tune in for a series of Print Talks as part of Auckland's inaugural Printopia Festival of Original Print. Saturday 7 May 10am - 5pm (NZ time) on our Facebook Page Printopia Festival where we'll be livestearming all day the talks and snippets of the day's festivities of demos and live…
Gráfica Migrante
Mukira/Woman A linoleum print from a series of work exploring migratory patterns on the El Paso/Juarez border region.
Using black and white to represent the red ochre desert landscape.
In 2021 my partner and I managed to get out of Victoria for a camping trip from Adelaide to Darwin and back via the Oodnadatta track. Of course i took small lino blocks, tools, and hand printing gear. The Australian outback is unbelievably beautiful and colourful. I, however, mainly do…
When You Are Stuck Break The Rules
Someone donated old zinc plates, in various small odd sizes, to the studio at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis. At the time I was floundering, in a creative funk, with no planned project I was working on. And no ideas as to what to do next. Since I am…
From Mania to Creative Breakthrough
At the start of the pandemic lockdown, I became manic, jumping from room to room, project to project, without the ability to focus or complete anything. To break the mania and try to start making art again, I decided to chop up some old intaglio plates from college (1974). The…