What a wonderful weekend spent at Mulranny Arts Centre doing a ‘Connecting with Nature’ course led by Caroline Schofield who runs Guided by Nature in Wales. Over the weekend, we connected with nature via meditation, poetry, field (feel-ed) trips to the salt marsh, while wrestling art materials in the wild Atlantic wind there at Clew…
Spent a lovely morning printmaking using recycled Tetra Paks at Gorey Art Collective led by Sheila McNally and Elaine Tobin. Using the waxed inside of the Tetra Pak, we etched our image using a drypoint needle, or you can use a nail. We then applied the intaglio ink using a toothbrush, and rubbed it into the grooves using a scrim…
I really enjoyed this papermaking class at Visual in Carlow with artist Mary Conroy. I found it therapeutic and a sound bunch of people to boot. Like you can see in the reel below, all you do is mix up old paper and water to make a paste then there’s a lot of swishing, buzzing…
Just back from a two-day workshop in Japanese woodblock with print artist Hiroko Imada at the Chester Beatty Library. Over the weekend, we focussed on sumizuri-e printing, in which a single printing block is used with black ink to create a monochrome image. I’ve cut lino, acetate, copper and MDF plates before so I was…
So we’ve reached the final chapter in the ‘it doesn’t go away’ series of prints. This print relates to work or rather my rather colourful and eclectic career. I always joke that I have a corporate strain of ADHD because I’ve chopped and changed so much over the years. A TedX talk informed me that…
D-day arrived to ink up the mask plate and see how it turned out. Here’s an Instagram reel of the day’s work in the print room including the outputs and a few mistakes and comments under the video. Here’s a little gallery of the outputs in case you find the reel too fast
Autism masking or camouflaging is a common enough practice to disguise or suppress specific autism traits or behaviors in social situations such as1: I’ve been masking for so long that I no longer know what is real or learned behaviour. The other night in a pub, my friend thought I was bored of all the…
After sleeping on it, I woke up yesterday and decided I would not be defeated by my own idiotic ambition. What could help me align those goddamn arrows? I decided on a cardboard base that would be meticulously measured. I roped in the wasband you know the way men love to work with a ruler,…
Back to Gorey School of Art Print Room to test the big plate. Here is the Instagram reel summary of a disastrous day of printmaking. Guest Talk After the coffee break, I took an inspired break and accepted the invitation from the Printing and Drawing course to join them to listen to Patrick Redmond talk…
A busy day in the print room of Gorey School of Art yesterday. 5 plates to test, various papers/materials, and two colours. Here’s the summary on an Instagram reel. Below is the write-up of what happened and what I learned. Key Findings from Testing: Implementing the Findings from Testing: To be continued…..
