Gill Burke (centre), seen here on Skopelos Island in 2013 with two other Australian artists, has just returned from doing a more recent workshop, this time in Wales with Andrew Baldwin. The latter is the inventor of BIG ground, the acrylic product which is starting to replace traditional hard grounds, soft grounds, bitumen, sugar lift and rosin aquatint processes in many studios around the world. We have gone over to BIG for hard ground already and I want to use it as a stopout too, if I’m convinced! Gill has just given one BIG workshop in Sydney and is offering another at Basil Hall Editions on Braidwood on Feb 16/17. There are only a couple of vacancies. Hurry! I’m in!
