October 17, 2015 Basil Hall
While he was at the Tarnanthi Festival in October, Basil visited the Art Gallery of SA four times to view its permanent collection in addition to the outstanding Tarnanthi…
The scene at the official opening by Paul Keating of the inaugural Tarnanthi Festival in Adelaide on October 8 at the Art Gallery of SA. Curated by a team…
September 27, 2015 Basil Hall
Our latest weekend workshop has just taken place in the Braidwood studio. The four participants experimented with soft ground, multi plate colour, chine colle, aquatint and photo etching, so…
September 25, 2015 Basil Hall
Mowanjum Arts in Derby has been getting into prints in a big way lately. There is a new press, an energetic studio manager, Rosie Holmes and a growing stock…
September 21, 2015 Basil Hall
Basil and most of the participants at last weekend’s “Painterly Prints” workshop at the Fire Station in Victoria. (6th from left is Margaret, the FS technical officer – many…
Here is the print being peeled off the press. The colours are extremely subtle (blending nicely with the tone of the Iwaki Japanese paper) and many participants were eager…
Basil and his 32kg suitcase then headed to Melbourne (after the Grampians adventure) and he ran a workshop at the Fire Station Printmaking Workshop in Armidale. Participants were given…
Here are some of the 60-70 beautiful coloured woodblocks done by the weekend participants at Grampians Brushes in Victoria last weekend. We only displayed a small sample (two by…
Basil has just returned from running two workshops in Victoria, as part of the annual Grampians Brushes series of art offerings. Over 360 participants and 16 tutors were on hand…
September 7, 2015 Basil Hall
We are about to announce our dates and tutors for Skopelos 2016! Already locked in are the dates for Basil’s workshop in June. He will offer another exciting etching…
Two groups of 10 guides came out to sunny Braidwood for a visit to the studio and a talk by Basil. Unlike the galleries, the print studio not only has copies…
BHE’s new screen printing studio in the Canberra suburb of Ainslie has had quite a workout lately. Printers, Clinton Barker and Basil, have been working on 8 editions of prints…
Edna Dale has made 8 editions of silkscreen prints recently for Mowanjum Arts near Derby, WA. Edna’s distinctive Wandjina figures have proved to be popular with visitors to the…
August 21, 2015 Basil Hall
Our latest workshop in Braidwood concentrated on hard- and soft ground etching and some photo etchings. Three of the participants drove down from Armidale, NSW and stayed at Fran…
Melbourne graphic designer and printmaker, Peter Rohan has just visited BHE in Braidwood to have some new etchings and dry points proofed and editioned by Basil. Watch out for…
August 2, 2015 Basil Hall
Nomad Art in Darwin is currently showing a strong group of 20 aluminium plate etchings by artists from Yirrkala. The exhibition marks 20 years since Andrew Blake and Basil…
July 12, 2015 Basil Hall
At the conclusion of the Basil Hall Editions workshop on Skopelos this year, the participants mounted an impromptu exhibition in the studio. Although we don’t have public displays, visitors…
Basil had his birthday during our first week on Skopelos and celebrated it at Apolefsi, one of BHE’s favourite dinner haunts. Someone let the cat out of the bag…
Resplendent in their BHE aprons, part of Basil’s group this year watch as an early proof goes through the press. During the two week course, the artists (all with…
Jane Skepper examines a proof in the Milos Studio, during Basil’s June-July workshop. In the foreground, four beautiful Greek churches (colour etchings by Cathy Blake) go under the drying…
