February 7, 2015 Basil Hall
Canberra artist, Sasha Nixon, sketching in a small Skopeliti museum during our 2013 printmaking workshops on this beautiful Greek island. Basil and Steph Bolt take groups there every year…
The cladding is now almost complete on Basil and Pam’s new shed in Ainslie, ACT. Basil Hall Editions will instal the silkscreen and relief workshop equipment here in about…
Sparing no expense, Basil Hall Editions has its latest staff member, Vida the guard dog, patrolling the lane way behind the studio, ensuring our artist in residence, Clint Barker,…
Clint Barker, this week’s artist in residence at Basil Hall Editions is seen here inking up his etching plate. It is currently being inked intaglio in a darker blue-black…
February 4, 2015 Basil Hall
Clint often works at Basil Hall Editions as a screen printer, and has editioned many of our silkscreen prints over the last 7 years. This month he is here…
January 19, 2015 Basil Hall
Here is the fabulous National Art School Summer School Printmaking group with Basil and their exhibition at the conclusion of five full on days of printing.
January 15, 2015 Basil Hall
Well, it’s official! You CAN fit ten busy artists into a small art room for a week and make great prints! Here is the printmaking class of 2015 at…
An early shot of the scene this week as 16 printmakers work with Basil in the National Art School’s well-equipped print department. The workshop is part of the NAS…
The participants at this year’s Sturt Summer School Printmaking workshops with Basil have taken numerous pictures of the busy week eleven of us spent in Frencham School’s art department…
January 7, 2015 Basil Hall
Two and a half days into Basil’s colour etching workshop at Sturt, Rosie Stevenson produced this beautiful colour work. The key plate is a hard ground line etching with…
Well, we are starting off the new year with two Summer schools in the first two weeks. Here, Basil is meeting with 10 students at the Sturt Summer School…
December 18, 2014 Basil Hall
Our latest workshop saw Basil travel to Numbulwar on the east coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria for the first time. Organised by Fleur Parry and Tom E Lewis…
December 4, 2014 Basil Hall
This year we are offering a double header in September! TWO tutors for the price of one: David Frazer and Basil will run a fortnight of printmaking in beautiful…
December 2, 2014 Basil Hall
This was the last in the 2014 series of workshops in Basil’s own studio in Braidwood. Four participants came from Sydney, the Southern Highlands and locally to spend two…
The Sydney Printmakers held an opening on November 14 in Chippendale, and Basil was asked to say a few words. The exhibition comprised the work of 83 artists from…
November 29, 2014 Basil Hall
This is an old entry showing Basil at his own studio in Braidwood, running an etching workshop in 2014 for participants from Sydney, the Southern Highlands and Braidwood itself. On…
November 17, 2014 Basil Hall
That magic moment as the blankets are peeled back to reveal the first multi plate colour proof. Warringah Director, Susan Baran (right) keeping a close eye on the press…
Another view of the Warringah studio, where Basil has just run a weekend workshop. There is plenty of bench space, making it ideal for workshops of up to around…
Basil has just been up in Sydney to do another etching workshop with the Warringah Printmakers. This time it was copper plate etching with 12 willing participants, all of…
November 6, 2014 Basil Hall
The colour pigment woodcuts worked well as a medium for most, if not all, of the 12 participants in the 2015 workshop in Armidale, NSW. Susie’s jacaranda trees were…
