Summer Courses Programme 2018

Nature into Print (Aluminium etching)

July 3 – 5,    10 am to 4 pm

Tutor : Jenny Graham

Fee: £180

Using aspects of the landscape surrounding Dove Studios, students will explore different etching techniques. Discussions about creative interpretation of the landscape will be combined with practical exercises on how to create line, tone and texture using a variety of etching processes.

Aluminium Etching by Jenny Graham

 

Making Prints for Books (Various printmaking techniques and simple book binding)

July 10 – 12,   10 – 4pm

Tutor: Bronwen Bradshaw with Pennie Elfick

Fee: £180

The aim of this course is for participants to make a handmade book containing printed images and maybe words too. Drypoint, collagraph, relief printing and monoprint can all be used, with plenty of wide ranging tuition on hand to help with the different techniques, including basic bookbinding.

Fold book of etchings by Bronwen Bradshaw

 

The Handwritten Word (Free-wheeling calligraphy)

July 14/15,   10 – 4pm

Tutor: Kathryn John

Fee: £120

At a time when our lives and lists exist in a digital world, we will spend a weekend together getting back in touch with the flow of the handwritten word, with full permission to get it wrong and to make a mess, using a variety of writing materials – including vegetable and oak gall ink – and experimental processes.

Writing by Kathryn John (Beetroot ink)

 

Mokuhanga Stage 1 (Japanese water-based woodblock printing)

August 8,9,10,   10 – 4pm

Tutor: Robin Frood

Fee: £180

This 3-day workshop will explore the Japanese art of woodblock printing, known as Mokuhanga, with participants producing a final series of prints on a theme of their choice. This water-based technique is very ecological in its use of materials, and is currently undergoing a great revival in contemporary art worldwide.

Mokuhanga print by Robin Frood

 

All courses include basic studio materials in the fee, but paper and plates (aluminium, wood blocks, acrylic sheets etc) are extra at cost.

If you would like to enrol on a course, please download the application form here:

Application Form for courses

and email to bronbradshaw@yahoo.com, or send to Bronwen Bradshaw, Dove Studios, Butleigh, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8TL, together with a deposit that will secure your place on the course. All deposits are non- refundable, unless we can fill your place from a waiting list. The full fee will be due by June 1st 2018; you will receive a reminder about this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nature into Print: details of course

Etching by Jenny Graham

NATURE INTO PRINT

July 3 – 5, 2018, 10 am to 4 pm

Tutor : Jenny Graham

Fee: £180

Using aspects of the natural world students will explore different aluminium etching techniques. Discussions about creative interpretation of the environment will be combined with practical exercises on how to create line, tone and texture using a variety of processes.

Students in Jenny’s last year’s course printing etching plates

Etching by Caroline Dowdell

Etching detail by Lin Hawkins

Participants will begin by collecting visual information from the landscape surrounding the workshop. Sketches will be turned into simple line etchings and then other printmaking processes will be added to create tone and texture. Students will be encouraged to use a creative and experimental approach to the subject working with both figurative and abstract techniques.

So, if you want to learn aluminium etching techniques (always experimental!), or improve skills you already have, using the lovely surroundings of the Dove as inspiration, this is the course for you. Email bronbradshaw@yahoo.com or message dovearts on facebook if you would like to reserve a place.

 

Etching by Jenny Graham