3 Day Summer
School
Friday 4th /
Saturday 5th / Sunday 6th August 2017
11 – 5
Join our 2014
Flourish Award winner for an exciting workshop, which will focus on breaking
the conventions of ‘traditional’ etching, exploring intaglio processes and
collagraph techniques. We will experiment with multiplate, layering and colour
techniques. Building on the success of Michelle’s first summer school in 2016,
she’s back again for another!
Working with
drypoint, collagraph and etching processes, you will explore a wide variety of
mark making methods. 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. You will learn to register
multiple plates and work with a variety of shapes and compositions. You will
also learn about paper, inking and registration techniques.
Michelle
Keegan studied Fine Art at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, graduating
with first class honours. She specialised in printmaking immediately, having
been intrigued by the possibilities of process, and exploring unknown ways of
making marks. Michelle continued her post graduate education at the Slade
School of Fine Art, under the guidance of Stanley Jones. She has made prints
and exhibited widely for the past 20 years, and also runs a small print
workshop and lectures in Nottingham.
All are
welcome on this course, whether experienced or complete beginner. The only
requirements are an experimental approach and an open mind!
