Featured – Artist in Residence

Experimenting with screenprinting One of my main aims this year was to get to grips with screenprinting. I have mostly worked in studios where the majority were screenprinters.

Ochre’s Artists in Residence, Alex and Ros were both lucky enough to attend Mai’s course in February. We had both created work using this process before, but not using the BIG safe etching process and we had a very enjoyable weekend with Mai learning this technique along with a great…

Too Much Information… Or Not Enough  is an exploration of language and communication, acknowledging mass media’s use of attention-grabbing strategies.

Image preparation in Photoshop for Screenprinting with James Cockerill and Jule Mallett

Ruth very kindly offered me a one to one mentoring session today to give me an insight into the possibilities of collagraph printing. To save time, Ruth suggested that I used her plates to explore the various inking techniques she wanted to show me. We started with black ink and…

So here we are again at the start of Lockdown 2. Thankfully I managed to finish my latest print just before this second closure, which is just as well because I started it before the first Lockdown and it really needed to be completed. To compliment my previous Tolworth Tower…

During Lockdown I have been working away, trying to develop my relief printing skills.

My first three months at Ochre have been lots of fun. I have met lots of friendly, creative people and every day at the studio I have learnt a new process or technique.