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 Ochre Print Studio Annual Members’ Summer Exhibition closed its doors on Sunday after a very successful nine days with some 300 visitors through the doors and many sales of work! The Opening Party on Saturday 1 June was so well attended that the front car park was FULL to…
An exhibition of work by the members of Ochre Print Studio, featuring prints by Artists in Residence Vicky Oldfield and David Crosby with Guest Artist Gerry Baptist RE, our Annual Summer Exhibition is open from Saturday June 1 to Sunday June 9, 11am to 5pm. You’ll receive a warm and…
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…
Helen has also been doing more sketches in the studio in preparation for her exhibition at Riverhouse Gallery in June Here’s one she made earlier:
A YEAR AT OCHRE The Art Fund Prize Gallery, Lightbox Woking 19 February – 3 March More information here During 2018, Artist in Residence Helen Locke, who studied illustration at Liverpool and gained a Masters in Narrative Illustration at Brighton, spent a year documenting how the studio helps everyone from…
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….