Jenny Nicholas – Starting my Residency The first two months of my Residency have been a whirl of courses and experimenting with the printing processes learned during these.
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Our two new AIRs, Jenny Nicholas and Tom Wynn Owen are busy getting to grips with the studio routine and where everything is kept and both are getting to know our keyholder members and those who regularly attend the Open Access sessions on a Tuesday.
Jenny Nicholas I am thrilled to have been chosen to be one of the Artists in Residence next year at Ochre Print Studio. It is such a wonderful opportunity to...
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'Italian shed' Silk screen monoprint with an exposed drawing printed on top I had a great time playing with some silkscreen monoprints with an exposed second screen, I liked the...
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I often produce work by starting with an idea/image in my head and, as I start the process, adapt and change the image as I go, responding to the draft image and new ideas that pop in to my head. I was forming the opinion that screenprinting required a lot…
It’s been a busy start to the year and a chance to experiment with some new techniques. I was commissioned to work with another artist to create a book cover for a French Horn textbook and decided to try out all my new knowledge before finalising the image using relief…
The Summer Exhibition is just a few weeks away, so what better to do on a rainy Thursday than finish off my BoxEd prints and start to think about what to enter into the exhibition itself. I thought I would make use of my new screen printing skills for the…
There is something undeniably special about giving yourself time to explore new processes when you’re a practising artist. I am interested in exploring a number of different processes as a form of opening my work up, hoping to develop in new processes. I began in January with the amazing Jule…
Where did January go? My first month as AIR has raced past – possibly due to having my trainers on for Jule’s turbo charged screen printing course! This has been an excellent introduction to the process and mechanics of screen printing with plenty of time for creating our own images….
It was so good to see such a massive crowd at the Ochre Christmas Party and I really appreciated your goodwill during my talk which wrapped up my residency at Ochre Print Studio. At the risk of repeating myself, it has been one of the most challenging, stimulating, knowledge-building, and…