Monthly archive: August 2013

Heidi Plant exhibition of linocuts in Margate

Heidi Plant will be showing her new linocuts at Parade, Margate this weekend. She printed them at Hello Print Studio so I have had a sneak preview and I genuinely love them! Heidi works very intuitively and directly, giving the prints a playful innocence. In fact they are very sophisticated in their use of black […]

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Fireworks in Montefiore

During my linocut and letterpress workshop at Opificio della Rosa recently there was the annual Rocca di Luna festival, when Montefiore is invaded by dancing horses and old men selling baskets. The whole thing ends with a spectacular firework display on the top of the medieval castle.  I took some photos and made them into […]

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Anonima Impressori letterpress studio, Bologna

On my recent visit to Italy (where I was teaching a linocut and letterpress workshop) I visited the studio of Veronica Bassini in Bologna. Anonima Impressori is tucked away down a quiet street to the west of the city and is full of drawers of type and printing presses rescued from typography studios all over […]

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Linocut & Letterpress workshop at Opificio della Rosa 2013

I’ve just returned from Italy where I was teaching a linocut and letterpress workshop at Opificio della Rosa, a beautiful printmaking studio in a castle. The aim of the workshop was to produce a book, based on a narrative which each student had chosen. The first two days were spent learning how to make marks […]

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