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Cedric
Green - artist/printmaker
- Based in France he makes contemporary etchings, relief prints,
monotypes, and collages, using new non-toxic electrolytic, electrochemical
and safe etching and proofing techniques which he has developed
(see Green Prints). The examples
of prints shown here mark recent stages in the development of an
individual technique which uses a wide range of methods - copper
and zinc plates printed in intaglio and relief, monotypes, sometimes
combined in the same print. A recurring theme is Atlantis, Plato's
mythical utopia destroyed by flood as a punishment for their arrogance
- a relevant myth for our time. Many of his pictures are based on
the abiguity, distortions and complexity of reflections in water
or in the imperfect mirror of memory...
Ses estampes
sont souvent basées sur la complexité spatiale des reflets des objets
dans l'eau ou dans le miroir imparfait de la mémoire.
Pendant plusieurs
années il s'occupe beaucoup de développement de techniques qui ne
sont pas dangereuses pour la santé ou pour l'environnement, et il
n'utilise ni les acides ni les solvants ou chimiques toxiques. Les
plaques sont en cuivre ou en zinc et gravées utilisant la technique
électrolytique dit "galvano gravure", et teintées avec une technique
qu'il développe, dite "fractinte". Il trouve un nouveau mordant
électrochimique pour le zinc qu'il nomme "mordant Bordeaux" Les
techniques nouvelles sont décrites en détail dans un livret gratuit
ayant pour titre "Green
Prints", et aussi dans un website avec le même titre. http://www.greenart.info/green/
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| Helen
Clarke, contemporary Australian printmaker with a passion
for the environment. She uses the mediums of etching and reduction
linocuts to interpret the Australian landscape, flora and fauna. Her
botanical interpretations are widely collected and acclaimed. Helen's
current works are detailed hand-coloured etchings of fruits, seeds
and pods and complicated reduction lino prints exploring the flora
and landscapes of Australia. ".. I am fascinated by the process
of seasonal change in the Australian landscape. Careful investigation
of the world around me reveals so much that is exciting The varying
mediums of printmaking enable me to express my ideas and create images
about my local and distant environment which is increasingly fragile
and endangered".. A site of special interest to collectors
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| Marian
Osher has lived in Montgomery County, Maryland most of her
life. She received her BA from the University of Maryland and a Master
of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from George Washington University.
Her artwork has been shown in numerous exhibits in the U.S. as well
as in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Museum of Modern Art in Argentina
and shows in Brazil, Belgium and India. Although she was a stone lithographer
for many years, she has chosen to create monotypes and monoprints
using water-soluble environmentally friendly media since 2000. She
developed a series of jewel-toned mandalas about the universal connections
of diverse cultures. In 2004 she created a body of artwork that explores
the connection between kaleidoscopic images and music. Her newest
artwork highlights diverse environmental issues. A very stylish
site with attractive colorful monoprints and monotypes and other work
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| Paco
Mora - printmaker and painter - a Spanish artist doing photogravure
using non-toxic methods. Site in Spanish. "En este taller se
darán la mano las más antiguas técnicas de grabado y estampación calcográficos
con las más novedosas y populares de la imagen y fotografía digitales:
- Se trabajará con la imagen digital obtenida a partir de diferentes
periféricos, como las cámaras de fotografía digitales o escáner, como
punto de partida para confeccionar una plancha de grabado. - Se aprenderá
a manejar el programa de tratamiento de imagen Photoshop con el que
se manipulará y personalizará la imagen, dándole el toque personal
y artístico, y adecuándola para su transferencia a la plancha calcográfica
o litográfica. - Se emplearán técnicas de transferencia de las imágenes
a la plancha fotosensible mediante insolación, revelado al agua, y
estampación en tórculo calcográfico. - El curso se adecuará al nivel
de cada alumno, que tendrá el soporte teórico y técnico que le permitirá
desarrollar y orientar su trabajo según sus intereses y capacidades.
No se necesita experiencia previa de dibujo, ni de grabado, ni de
informática. Las técnicas son fáciles de aprender y de aplicar después
en casa...." A site using the increasingly common method of
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| Rona
Green is a visual artist and printmaker based in Melbourne,
Australia. A fancier of characters and the absurd, her work examines
the darker side of the psyche. "Drawn with deliberate clumsiness
her boogie-men and flawed misfits possess a certain touching vulnerability
and sexless, adolescent awkwardness.... Green’s flawed outcasts and
weirdos are condemned to a solitary existence in friendless, empty
landscapes and interiors...The most tender images are those depicting
an attempt at contact that never, however, manages to get beyond a
tentative shadow cast by an outstretched arm..". She works in
a variety of media - etchings and aquatint, woodcut, monotypes, linocuts
and digital prints... http://www.ronagreen.com/
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| Skylark
Studios is an art gallery and workshops, founded, owned and
run by Louise Williams, created in 1993 when she converted a listed
but derelict barn into an art gallery and printmaking studio. It is
here that Louise continues to work, organising exhibitions by a variety
of artists, running art classes, and creating her etchings, screenprints
and linocuts. Much of her art work depicts England's Fen country,
exotic places she has visited, and underwater scenes inspired by her
passion for scuba diving....http://www.skylarkstudios.co.uk/
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| The
Steampunk Workshop - Making artifacts from an alternative
age ". Hieronymus Isambard "Jake" von Slatt writes about his
work ." . in which your humble proprietor theorizes that; if
he can etch into one side of a brass plate he may be able to etch
completely through the plate from both sides. A fixture is constructed,
current is applied, electrolyte boils and jewlery is made..."
This is not quite printmaking but the process described is used
by quite a few printmakers, including Cedric
Green, for preparing plates for printmaking. The merit of this
site is the full and detailed description and illustration of his
method of preparing his brass plates for electrolytic etching, using
a laser printer to prepare his transfers to iron onto his plates....http://steampunkworkshop.com/electroetch.shtml |
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| Bev
Peden is a Canadian artist exploring printmaking and oil painting
at her home on Pender Island, British Columbia. Having lived in Kenya,
Uganda and Ethiopia for 20 years, her African experiences have strongly
influenced her Eastern African paintings and printmaking. She has
also enjoyed writing about her experiences and has taken many photographs
of people and life in East Africa. "My art reflects the struggle,
understanding and, sometimes, humour that accompany the many adjustments
which work to combine my African and Canadian experiences. Through
balance and insight, my work finds its expression reaching for both
the metaphorical and real images which evoke a more primal expression
of faith and unity. Many times the work is an exploration of both
the outer reality surrounding me, and the inner landscape of my own
responses...." http://www.pendercreatives.com/bevpeden/index.html |
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emma
clark prints - Emma Clark was born in Oxford in 1967 and
now lives and works in South London. She left Ravensbourne College
of Design in 1988 with a BA in ceramics and shortly after turned
to printmaking. "..Il Faut Danser la Vie (Life Should be Danced)
My new series of one-off prints has been inspired by the experiences
I have had over the last 6 months watching and participating in
dance. I started to learn to dance last February and lost my heart
almost immediately to the feeling of being on the dance floor -
the combination of music, lights and the people I met started to
seep into my work and within a matter of weeks I was trying to pin
down the way it made me feel and make images to represent that."
But what has happened to her own very good website and blog ?
...http://www.dreamtargets.com/em_gallery01.htm
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Albertine
Eylenbosch studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of
Mechelen and the National Institute of Fine Arts of Antwerp. She
teaches at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Mechelen and the Art
School of Hove. With many exhibitions in Europe, she has been greatly
inspired by traveling to Egypt, Ivory-Coast, Guadeloupe, Cambodia,
Thailand and Venezuela.
Start als eerste in België met een atelier elektrisch etsen en milieuvriendelijke
grafische technieken te Hove in 1999. - Start als eerste met een
atelier computerkunst en multimedia aan de Academie te Mechelen.
- ICT-cöordinator aan de Academie Mechelen. - Talrijke tentoonstellingen
en onderscheidingen in binnen- en buitenland. - Reizen als inspiratiebron
voor werken: Egypte, Franse Antillen, Ivoorkust, Thailand, Cambodja,
Venezuela, Seychellen, La Réunion.
A refined website showing work she has done over the past 6 years
using the galv-etch (electro-etching)
technique
... http://home.scarlet.be/albertineeylenbosch/
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Jenny
Lane woodcuts - (This
site seems to have disappeared - please let me know new URL)
Jenny Lane was born in Ireland, studied at the Dun Laoghaire School
of Art and Design in the early 1970s. She turned to woodblock printing,
a medium in which she specialises now. In 1984 she represented Ireland
at the Bradford International Print Biennale. She has exhibited
at numerous international venues including Brussels, Milwaukee,
Beijing, Singapore and Yokohama. In Ireland her work has also been
shown at the Oireachtas Exhibition, the Listowel Graphics Exhibition,
the R.H.A. and Figurative Image. Site with many illustrations of
her attractive woodcuts, subjects : trees and landscapes.. http://jlwoodcuts.server101.com/main.html
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The Artists'
Press opened its doors in Newtown, Johannesburg in 1991,
under the direction of Tamarind Master Printer, Mark Attwood. The
Artists' Press started as a lithography studio providing artists in
southern Africa with a workshop dedicated to the production of limited
edition hand printed lithographs. Since its inception the press has
grown steadily and today offers a variety of print processes to artists
as well as publishing and selling original prints and artists books.
In 2003 The Artists' Press relocated to a farming area just outside
of White River in Mpumalanga. In the purpose built studio the press
now offers lithography, letterpress, intaglio, mono-printing and relief
printing. This simple, well designed site shows the work of manyinteresting
South African printmakers, of all races....
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"afternoon" by Dumisani Mabaso
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Lindisfarne
Sundials - "With time,all we need is the Sun"
- Tony Moss designs and builds superb and amazing sundials. His
well designed site illustrates and describes his work. " If
you have a sundial design in mind but lack the facilities to turn
it into enduring bronze, a sad dial that has lost its gnomon, a
stolen dial to be replicated or any similar problem I may be able
to help provided you are prepared to wait patiently" His
dials are etched on bronze and other metals and he is starting to
use electrolytic methods. Not strictly printmaking, but where else
to put put it ?... http://www.lindisun.demon.co.uk/
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How
a Wood Engraving is Made
- A personal approach by Andy English - "Wood engravings are
a form of relief printmaking. Areas of wood are cut away to leave
the final image. It is a very old form of printmaking and you can
read something of its history in this page of the Wood Engravers
Network site..... Printmaking suits me as I love making multiples;
I like the idea that many people can own and share my work. I also
love the process of printing an edition - a slow, repeated ritual
with its own choreography... I have tried many types of printmaking
but, when I first picked up a graver and engraved on the endgrain
of a block of wood, it seemed to me to be much more like remembering
a process, rather than learning It. I am very conscious of those
who have gone before me - the famous engravers and also the unsung
workers who interpreted drawings to illustrate Victorian books and
journals...".Well illustrated and described process of making
a wood engraving or woocut, as well as showing his own beautiful
woodcuts.. hhttp://www.andyenglish.com/page/1ciue/Home.html
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M.C.
Escher -
Work by the famous Dutch artist; woodcuts and lithographs. Large
gallery of Escher's work of all periods, tessellation backgrounds,
optical illusions. This is the official Escher site with quotes,
biography, interactive puzzles, essays on his work, lots of links
and a fascinating link to the notorious faker of his work - Earl
Washington.... http://www.mcescher.com
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PRINTS -
Cedric Green's comprehensive guide to new non-toxic printmaking methods
- Galv-Etch, Galv-On, Bordeaux Etch and other healthy, ecologically
friendly, alternative methods for printmaking, including electrolytic
methods for etching without acids, a new safe mordant for zinc plates,
and substitutes for most harmful solvents and chemicals normally used
in printmaking. Includes a comparative table of old methods, their
health dangers and subsitutes. A short history of electrolytic methods
from their invention in 1840 to the present. A paper entitled "Light,
Electricity and the Printed Image" is available on the site in
English and Spanish. Text and illustrations are drawn from from the
book by Cedric Green published by Ecotech Design, now in its 16th
edition. Book available, or as a free PDF download. Text is also in
Spanish published by the University of Barcelona as a book. Other
websites include selections from 'Green Prints' in Italian, Dutch
and German.,.
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Printmaking
Methods -
A 'Print Australia' Listing - A
comprehensive resource of information concerning methods of printmaking
and general 'how-to' information, giving preference to sites promoting
the use of non-toxic methodologies. A
site filled with links to sites under different headings: | Print
Australia | Australian Printmakers | Non-Australian Printmakers
| Art Theory | Book Arts | Discussion Groups | Education | Exhibitions
| Australian Galleries | Non-Australian Galleries | Lists of Links
| Magazines | Methods | Organisations | Other media | Papermaking
| Prizes | Professional Practice | Searching & Browsing | Suppliers
| What's On | Women | Workshops |. Few illustrations, but a popular
site.. http://www.acay.com.au/~severn/methods.htm
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Nik
Semenoff - new lithographic techniques'
- Pages describing new techniques he has
developed for waterless lithography; techniques using dry copier
toner; electro-etching; a new mordant for aluminium plates. Waterless
lithography has become the basis of
all the non-commercial processes being taught at workshops around
the world and seems to be gaining acceptance amongst printmakers.
The papers you can download from this web site, are the most recent
developments, and are designed for reliability and simplicity.The
site contains the "New Directions Art Gallery" showing
example prints.http://homepage.usask.ca/~nis715
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Grafisk
Eksperimentarium was established in Copenhagen by Henrik
Boegh in 1997. with the following aims: 1 Testing and evaluating
new printmaking techniques and materials based on acrylics and polymers
- 2 Imparting experience with such techniques and materials to the
art schools and creative artists - 3 Arranging workshops and demonstrations
of Non-Toxic Printmaking - 4 Advising schools and printmaking workshops
on establishing and equipping a Non-Toxic Printmaking Studio. They
also have a shop which sells all materials and equipment for non-toxic
printmaking and books and videos which he produces. Henryk Boegh
is an important figure in the non-toxic printmaking movement and
his book is worth buying and studying...
http://www.artbag.dk/www-grafisk-eksperimentarium-dk/modelNy4.html?sprog=uk
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| Zea
Mays is a studio, workshop, educational facility and resource
center dedicated to non-toxic printmaking in Northhampton, western
Massachusetts. They offer artists, printmakers, students, teachers
and novices classes and workshops with an emphasis on non-toxic intaglio,
relief and monotype printmaking. . http://www.zeamaysprintmaking.com/ |
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| Edinburgh
Printmakers Workshop is an artists' studio and gallery dedicated
to contemporary fine-art printmaking. Studio facilities are provided
at reasonable cost for any artist who wishes to work in etching, lithography,
screenprinting or relief printing. Use of the studio is for anyone,
professional printmakers, artists and beginners alike. They have developed
and use non-toxic methods: Edinburgh Etch, Acrylic Resist Etching;
Water-based screenprinting; Lithography using non-toxic chemicals.
An extremely well designed and attractive site.. http://www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk/ |
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| Linda
Goodman's International Art Workshops - painter/ printmaker
Linda Goodman is on the faculty at Mission College, Santa Clara, California
and has taught extensively in the U.S. and abroad She regularly teaches
workshops in the United States and abroad. In June 2006, join her
for the tenth Art Workshop, "Your Creative Sojourn" in captivating
Florence, Italy. In August, she returns to conduct "Walking with the
Muse: Creative Journey in Monoprint" on Skopelos Island, Greece for
15 days on this beautiful island in the Agean sea, Very tempting
indeed..., visit it and dream, or take the plunge and sign up.
...... http://www.artmondo.net/
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Printmakers Council was founded in 1965 to promote the art
of printmaking and the work of contemporary printmakers. It continues
to pursue this aim by organising a program of exhibitions in London,
throughout the U.K. and worldwide. These exhibitions show both traditional
skills and innovatory printmaking techniques. These exhibitions show
both traditional skills and innovatory printmaking techniques. The
PMC has a slide index and planchest of PMC members work which is regularly
consulted by galleries, exhibition organisers and potential buyers.
Membership is open to all printmakers, students, interested groups
and individuals. Recent PMC exhibitions have been mounted at The Natural
History Museum, Battersea Pumphouse, Wakefield and in Paris at Musee
Adzak. PMC Print Workshops have recently been organised for members
at the Artichoke Print Workshop and at the Pitshanger Hanger Manor
Gallery. A site for professional printmakers to visit and consider
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Printmaking
Links - A comprehensive listing of websites and pages
dealing with printmaking and art, created by Chris Mercer of Printmaker,
a studio offering printmaking editioning services and other resources
to printmakers, especially those interested in screenprinting....
http://www.printmaker.co.uk/links.html
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N Lawrence The UK's premier supplier of artists' materials,
whose shops stock more than 6000 product lines, all of which are normally
available immediately. Their trained staff will supply you with the
best quality products and give the best quality service and delivery.
Based in the coastal town of Hove, their administration offices share
a building with their newest retail outlet. There they deal with the
day to day running of the business and process orders placed by mail,
phone and internet. An exceptionally well organised website for
a firm who have been supplying printmakers for nearly 100 years. Their
quality of service is well known and they are reccommended highly.......
http://www.lawrence.co.uk/
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Polymetaal
- Manufacturer of printmaking equipment; Etching presses,
litho presses, hot plates, relief presses, intaglio presses, acid
trays etc. Second hand printmaking presses and other equipment are
also advertised. Also on this website you can find printmaking links
as well as free exhibit space for printmaking artists... An extremely
businesslike site in 5 languages (English, Dutch, French, German
and Spanish), which is regularly updated and well organised. The
presses and other equipment are delivered and installed all over
Europe often personally by the very energetic owner of the enterprise,
Hugo Bos...http://www.polymetaal.nl/
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Gary
Thibeau - vendeur des presses taille-douce en France : Ici
on trouve le catalogue des presses taille-douce Gary-Thibeau, et
les presses d'occasion. Petites annonces - Achat-vente de presses
et accessoires pour l'estampe, location ou partage d'atelier...etc.
Il y a des articles comme "L'estampe par André Béguin",
"Petit dictionnaire technique de l'estampe par André Béguin"...
Actualité de l'Art Annonces d'évènements et d'exposition. .. Découverte
d'artistes L'annuaire illustrés des graveurs en France et ailleurs.
Vous pouvez soumettre votre site et il offre un lien depuis la section
"Découverte d'artistes". Partenariats. Téléchargez les guides gratuits
des solutions créatives. A
very well designed site with a lot of information in French but
of interest to all printmakers. Gary Thibeau is personally very
interested in non-toxic methods and is trying to promote interest
in them in France.
...http://www.presse-estampe.com/
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Printmakers
Webring - part of the Yahoo! webring system. Recently changed
address. Sections on non-toxic printmaking and artists. Links to
galleries, studios. individual artists, and membership to widen
knowledge of your printmaking site. Printmakers with sites showing
their prints can join the webring and hopefully receive more visits
to their sites...
http://www.coppenger.com/print_webring.html
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| PRINTMAKING
: a site supported by Flemings Fine Art and the Mall Gallery -
On line information about printmaking: etching, lithography, relief
printing, screen printing, digital and giclée printmaking. Loads
of information about print workshops, exhibitions, courses. Good search
facility. http://www.flemings.u-net.com/home.htm |
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| Earth
Illustrated specialises in environmental graphic design and
fine art. Serving Government, business, not-for-profit sectors. "The
future of earth hangs in the balance and mankind has both the power
and the responsibility to act... Sometimes a picture really is worth
a thousand words but can be difficult to conceive and design. Hands-on
experience working in the environmental sector provides Earth Illustrated
with the ability to conceptualise environmental design and fully understand
our clients and their needs . We sell original artwork, signed prints
and undertake commissions for clients" ...this is a site hard
to classify, not quite printmaking, but offering a valuable graphic
service...... http://www.earth-illustrated.co.uk/index.shtml |
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| Idbury
Prints is an online gallery of original prints which holds
over 5000 original prints by more than 500 artists, from Ablett to
Zych. You can search by keyword (e.g. cats or Belgian), artist, style,
subject, medium, price, signed/unsigned, or any combination of these.
Matisse, Bonnard, Picasso, Braque, Dufy, Marquet, Friesz, Camoin,
Léger, Miró, and Delaunay are among the artists represented. "...We
have important Art Nouveau lithographs by artists such as Mucha, Evenepoël,
and Rhead, Art Deco lithographs by Lucien Boucher and photographs
by Walery, and also strong Surrealist holdings, featuring work by
artists such as Man Ray, André Masson, Lucien Coutaud, Leonor Fini,
and Dorothea Tanning. Although this site does not specialise in
prints of ecological interest, it is so well designed and so easy
and rewarding to use that it should be of interest to all printmakers
and collectors, and to designers of gallery websites. ....http://www.idburyprints.com/index.php |
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