Printmaker
Laura Boswell is a very talented printmaker who specialises in linocut and Japanese woodblock printing (see Note 1 below). In April 2018, I attended one of Laura’s Japanese Watercolour Woodblock courses and enjoyed it so much that I decided to add mokuhanga to my other relief and intaglio printmaking techniques. In 2011, Laura published a linocut…
Up until now, I have always located my etching press on a static base such as an old dining table or a heavy chest of drawers. This had made it very difficult to move the press and its support. I recently decided to buy one of Hawthorn Printmaker Supplies’ press stands. I chose the press stand…
Our friends, Rosey and Steve James, moved to Stoodleigh in May 2011 and since then have transformed their property into a magnificent home and successful bed & breakfast business. In one of their bedrooms, the Hayloft, there is a window blind with a repeating pattern of a squirrel and a bird with three chicks on…
To date, I have concentrated on linocut (relief printing) and etching & aquatint (intaglio). I wanted to broaden my knowledge of the other relief printing techniques to see what would be of interest. With this in mind, I have just spent the last twelve months learning about these. For this I have to thank Susan…
This post is the last in a series of different relief printmaking techniques that I have tried over the last twelve months. I spent a year on this for two principal reasons – firstly to experience the technique and secondly to decide what I would continue to use. Wood engraving was the last technique described…
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