The lucky participants in the 2013 printmaking workshops on Skopelos will begin arriving today. The island is turning on a beautiful spring, with wildflowers and herbs growing in great…
Basil on the one arm at Megalo
April 29, 2013 Basil Hall
A beautiful new silkscreen edition has just been completed for NT artist and outstanding landscape painter Angelina George. Basil is seen at left working on the 10 colour silkscreen…
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Printmaker, Antonia Aitken has been assisting Basil with a number of new editions for Beswick, Iwantja Arts in Indulkana, Kaltjiti Arts in Fregon and Mimili Maku. Here Antonia is…
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Clinton Barker and Basil have been working at Megalo Print Studio on new silkscreen prints for Mimili Maku Arts Centre in South Australia and for Djilpin Arts in Beswick,…
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Yes, it is about making prints and learning some new tricks, but two or three weeks on the beautiful island of Skopelos gives participants in our popular workshops more…
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It’s on again! Basil and Steph head off in the coming weeks to Greece to prepare for this year’s two workshops on Skopelos. With 19 participants and three artists…
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Through the Beswick floodwaters
April 9, 2013 Basil Hall
Two days before, this road was under metres of water. By the time we came out to Beswick to run the third day of our recent workshop, residents were…
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Basil and Nena Zanos have just returned from running workshops in Beswick (Wugularr) and Katherine in the Northern Territory. With the Wet Season finally starting in earnest, it was…
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Sadly, we never made it to Alice
March 11, 2013 Basil Hall
Well, a hard decision has been made; and that is NOT to go ahead with the move to our proposed new studio adjacent to Raft Artspace in Alice Springs.…
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New prints for Kaltjiti Arts
February 20, 2013 Basil Hall
We were very sad to hear of the recent passing of Kaltjiti artist, Tjilpi (old man) Robin, whose beautiful series of drawings we are currently editioning at the Braidwood…
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A third Artist in Residence on Skopelos
February 12, 2013 Basil Hall
Helen Mueller will also join us as an artist in residence on Skopelos in 2013. Helen is one of a small consortium of artists who have established the studio…
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Mieke Cohen from Sydney, NSW, will join Munich-based Australian artist Christopher Croft on the island in May 2013 and they will share the Milos studio during their stay. Mieke…
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The proud proprietor surveys the scene during our first workshop in Braidwood. The studio proved to be a great place to work when three artists travelled from Greece (via…
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to our loyal readers
January 13, 2013 Basil Hall
I came across this amongst the Christmas photos and realised I hadn’t wished everyone a Merry one. From all of us at BHE (that’s only Basil at present until…
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Munich-based artist, Christopher Croft, will be our first artist in residence at Milos Studios on Skopelos this year. He and Basil have collaborated on numerous editions since the 1980’s,…
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A group of the participants at our recent workshop in Canberra in January enjoying a print straight off the Heidelberg press, lent to us by the Artists’ Society of…
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The Artists’ Society of Canberra once again invited Basil to run a printmaking workshop as part of their 2014 summer school, held in the Canberra suburb of Holt. We…
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Fancy a residency in a Skopelos studio?
January 5, 2013 Basil Hall
Although the Milos Printmaking Studio was only set up in 2012, we have already had two artists in residence in addition to the workshop program run by Basil Hall…
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Linocuts were made in Greece too
December 20, 2012 Basil Hall
I have to put this in after apparently being quoted as suggesting these images would make good cards! Hopefully, I have been forgiven, as Charlotte Kimberlee’s Greek images made…
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Merle Clarkson’s etching, done during the Skopelos workshops in 2012. The print, on copper plate, was done first with a hard ground (scratched) line, and then aquatinted to create…