West Yorkshire Print Workshop

At West Yorkshire Print Workshop this weekend teaching 6 lovely people the joys of Etching

Taking a Line for a Walk – Innovative Etching

Weekend course West Yorkshire Print Workshop
Saturday 9th / Sunday 10th May 2015

Join our 2014 Flourish Award winner for an exciting weekend workshop, which will focus on breaking the conventions of ‘traditional’ etching. This course will run alongside Michelle’s solo exhibition, ‘Still Navigating’, here at the WYPW gallery.

Working with drypoint and etching techniques, you will explore drawing using brushes and unorthodox mark-making tools. Tactile and sculptural marks can be produced by layering liquid ‘ground’ or wax onto a plate to act as a ‘resist’ or ‘stop-out’ to the etching solution.  The zinc and aluminium plates are then etched multiple times using a solution of copper sulphate, to build up your image in layers. Spontaneous mark-making and ‘open bite’ lines will be explored and printed, often producing beautiful abstract compositions.

All are welcome on this course, whether experienced or complete beginner. The only requirements are an experimental approach and an open mind!

Still Navigating

Installing 29 prints today at West Yorkshire Print Workshop gallery with Samantha Manton.
The show opens tomorrow at 6 if anyone is near Yorkshire a really beautiful space.

International Print Exchange (IPE)

Did you know? Over the past 6 years (IPE 2009-2014) of running the exchange, there have been 8 artists who have taken part every single year? You can view their impressive IPE portfolios on our website:John Bergmeier http://bit.ly/1CBDroi

Harriet Brigdale http://bit.ly/1EQi8D8
Elizabeth Burton http://bit.ly/1GRLZuk

Haig Demarjian http://bit.ly/1Go74vJ
Benjamin Gross http://bit.ly/1F8K8Na
Michelle Keegan http://bit.ly/1CBDu3nand our two organisers:
Anna Johnson http://bit.ly/1Go7rXb

Pandora Johnson http://bit.ly/1xI3UBt

Art-Athina, Greece

Please join us at HMS before the show tours to Art Athina in Athens for the largest Art fair in Greece.

Studio holders past and present, plus artists who have shown in HMS EXHIBITION SPACE were invited to make work on the theme of 'INBOX', dimensions :30cm x 30cm. 

Thirty artists responded to the invitation by making 40 works. These will form a grid structure which reference pigeon holes – also an inbox.

David Ainley     Lori Amor      Jackie Berridge      Richard Boyle     Fi Burke   

Mary Ellen Croteau     Lisa Denyer     Sue Disley     Flore Gardner     Louise Garland    Sue Greenaway  Terry Greene     Rob Hart     Carole Hawthorne     

Michelle Keegan Maggy Milner     Polly Parker      Andy Parkinson       Kerri Pratt   

Patrick Prentice     Rachel Pinks     Ed Sellman     Sheila Ravnkilde    

Steffie Richards   Beth Shapeero   Dee Shiels   Clay Smith   Kate Smith

Helen Stevenson     Helen Sutherland    Rob Van Beek   Paul Warren    

Alison Whitmore      Chris Wright 

Bespoke Drypoint Workshop

Teaching a workshop for Chris Smith of the 5 Dot Collective Cobden Chambers

Private View West Yorkshire Print Workshop 10th April

Still Navigating

Michelle Keegan – solo exhibition [i'd better get busy!!!!!]
11 April – 16 May 2015

Printmaker Michelle Keegan is the winner of this year’s Flourish Award- for excellence in printmaking- and one of our newest members at West Yorkshire Print Workshop. A Slade School of Art graduate, Michelle’s work in multi-plate etching is minimalist and monochromatic, depicting a series of abstract layers, memories of spaces, places and landscapes.
West Yorkshire Print Workshop
75A Huddersfield Road
Mirfield
WF14 8AT