Fabulous Skopelos. BHE Printmaking Workshop 2015
July 12, 2015 Basil Hall
The Milos printmaking studio on Skopelos has been buzzing for the last two months! First there was a workshop run by Melbourne artists Gaye Patterson and Steph Bolt in…
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New Shirley Purdie etching edition underway
May 14, 2015 Basil Hall
Today we are up and running on Shirley Purdie’s new edition. Visiting ace printer, (all the way from Tasmania), Antonia Aitken is seen doing the a la poupée plate.…
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Basil and Antonia Aitken are busy over the next two weeks proofing and then editioning etchings by Shirley Purdie, Peggy Patrick and Gordon Barney. These beautiful prints were commenced…
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Interior of new silkscreen studio
May 12, 2015 Basil Hall
The one-arm seems to have survived the years of storage, and, but for one missing screw, is ready for action on jobs for Mowanjum and Warmun Arts in the…
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The as yet un-named studio is finally ready to use! After two and a half years in limbo, the silkscreen table and relief equipment has reached its destination: a…
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A new Buku Larrnggay Print Project
April 30, 2015 Basil Hall
Will Stubbs, Annie Studd and artist Wukun Wanambi examine some of the proofs done in the Buku Print Shop last week during Basil’s visit in late April. Basil, Annie…
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Buku Print Shop’s 20th Anniversary
April 29, 2015 Basil Hall
Following Karen Mills’ visit, Basil headed to Yirrkala in NE Arnhem Land last week at the invitation of Buku Larrnggay Art Centre. Here he worked with Print Space co-ordinator…
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A final shot from the Karen Mills residency at BHE last week. Karen and Basil are seen checking out the proofs taken from various combinations of her 8 plates.…
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Gill Burke’s coloured woodblock
April 14, 2015 Basil Hall
Gill’s woodblock resolved itself beautifully as she came to grips with the new techniques and the application of the colour on the reverse of the print. Hers was one…
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Monica brought a number of grainy found timbers to ink up and her prints comprised a number of layers plus the hand-applied colour – all in two brief days!…
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One of the workshop participants, Sylvie, hand-painting the back of her woodblock print with a mixture of powder pigment and rice glue in readiness for the next stage. Everyone…
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Kate Furness and Warringah printmaking teacher, Susan Baran check out a print as it comes off the press. In fact we only used the presses to glue chine colle…
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Darwin artist Karen Mills and Basil never quite got around to much collaborating in all the years he was in Darwin…so she’s had to travel all the way to…
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Printing Softley
April 13, 2015 Basil Hall
Sydney art teacher and artist, Camille Softley has just spent a week in the studio in Braidwood, developing several new images. She has been primarily investigating burnished aquatints and drypoint…
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Back to Townsville after 20 years!
March 23, 2015 Basil Hall
Well, if it’s mid March, that must have been Townsville last weekend for our latest (and sixth) workshop for the year! Basil hadn’t been up there for work for…
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In the land of the Wandjina
March 9, 2015 Basil Hall
Mowanjum Artists is a stunning Art Centre on the Gibb River Rd, just before Derby, and is visited by numerous tourists and art lovers who venture to this rugged…
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Promising young Mowanjum artist, Rihannon Bradshaw holds up one of her carved blocks, done during Basil’s recent workshop in this far N-W corner of Australia. This image of two…
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Basil looks surprised after an early colour woodcut rolls off the new press at Mowanjum, north of Derby in Western Australia! The technique used by Leah here is adapted…
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Southern Highlands Printmakers Visitors
February 22, 2015 Basil Hall
Saturday’s illustrious visitors from the Southern Highlands Printmakers group, seen here in our Braidwood studio. Tony Deigan, Elizabeth Atkin, Tony Ameneiro, Alan Purdom with Pam Boyer (at right) and…
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The new two plate etching (it will also have a silkscreened colour over the moon) by Mabel Juli from a workshop Pam and Basil ran in Warmun in 2013.…