October 16, 2021 Basil Hall
It has been nearly two years since I ran any printmaking workshops at home in Canberra, owing to the you-know-what. The lockdown time has allowed editioning to continue without any interruptions. We have also made some additions to the house to accommodate visitors. I would love to welcome individual artist visitors in future and to offer a number of workshops …
August 26, 2021 Basil Hall
This is one of the new Elcho Island prints which were launched at DAAF recently. Woodblock and silkscreen by Tommy Minburra (story printed on the reverse). Tommy cut the…
Artists Tommy Minburra and Nicholas Baru Pascoe working on the last day of our woodblock and silkscreen workshop last week. Tommy is using his hair brush (made using long…
Happiness is a full rack of drying prints, although 100% humidity every night does make drying these woodblock prints very difficult. The 250gsm Stonehenge paper also went very floppy…
December 18, 2020 Basil Hall
To mark the 175th anniversary of the shipwreck on the west coast of King island of the English barque, the Cataraqui, in 1845 with the loss of 400 lives,…
December 10, 2020 Basil Hall
Well, it’s been a strange year for BHE. All our art centre friends closed up shop with Covid, so we were suddenly without workshops and most of our potential…
