These are a few of the blocks I print from and they are cut in several different types of wood. The gate design is on a purchased box wood, others are on soft woods, swiss pear and lime. I have been learning the technique of Mokuhanga printmaking and for this…
I just returned from a great trip to Massachusetts, where I was an artist in residence and workshop instructor at Zea Mays Printmaking and a guest lecturer at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. It is wintertime, and the cushy climate at my home in Aptos, California…
Print Day in May continues to gain momentum and popularity! However, despite the business of PDIM Ieva, from the small PDIM admin team, and Michael, from ink maker Cranfield, find time to reflect on what makes this wonderful event so rewarding. Please listen the podcast here: Print Day in May…
Bonjour Printmakers! I just returned from Paris where my research residency at L’AIR Arts in the Montparnasse neighborhood of Paris was highly productive, fun, inspiring and exhausting. There were 14 artists involved, from the US, England, France, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, China, South Africa, Brazil, Ecuador and Chile. Everyone spoke English,…
Speedball Art Materials – six $50 vouchers for Akua Inks, Speedball Art products and Arnhem printmaking were awarded to: Melanie Gleaves Morrett & Brenda Kay Brown, Mary Mathews & Nicole Rudolph, Jackie Goldman Kaufman & Donna Drouin Cranfield Colours – three £50 vouchers for printmaking materials awarded to: Anne Brierley,…
Written by Debra Norton for The Star, June 8th 2019. Published online here. Nancy Jacobi, Founder of The Japanese Paper Place Nancy Jacobi has been passionate about traditional Japanese washi paper since she discovered the handmade paper while teaching English in Japan forty years ago. “It was everywhere at that…
Collaborative copper plate etching “Sunraysia” by Sandra Starkey Simon & Mei Sheong Wong, printed in Magpie Studio South, Belair.
Mei Sheong Wong with copper plate etchings printed at Magpie Studio South, Belair, South Australia.
We had a stellar time at the Atelier Meridian, in Portland Oregon, pulling monotypes for Print Day in May! Young and old alike were getting inky and sharing stories and then there was cherry pie... and BBQ and beer and pink wine. Three main food groups of the printmaker. Thanks…