Print Club is a social, sharing, learning group, set up to offer a place where people with some experience of the process can come to experiment and produce their own prints in our studio. With guidance, advice and support from teacher and technician Rochelle Bloom, they have developed their own personal skills and techniques and developed a lovely community of printers, who support and inspire each other month on month.
This exhibition is an opportunity to view the prints created by members of the club, as well as browse through editioned unframed prints, which will all be for sale.
Participating artists:
Linda Mayne
Sally White
Dawn Buckland
Vicky Emptage
Ruth Dalzell
Amelia Mulvery
Lucy Spanyol
And
Rochelle Bloom
Rochelle Bloom
Rochelle Bloom is a teacher/printmaker who regularly runs printmaking sessions at the Horsebridge. These include the monthly print club that has inspired this exhibition, as well as specific short courses and workshops in collagraph, monoprint, etching and is running a 4 week lino print colour reduction course starting 20th September
Lucy Spanyol
Lucy's work explores fragile and nebulous visual narratives that offer an often darkly humorous vision of our world.
Figuration and abstraction exist in the same arena: forms and figures arrive in these paintings and drawings through a combination of the process of making and the memory of personal and collective events. For Lucy Spanyol, the process of making images is fundamentally an arena in which to explore unknown inner worlds and a place to push at the boundaries of both materials and visual storytelling.
Contact spanyollucy@gmail.com
Instagram@lucyspanyol
Ruth Dalzell
Ruth is a Whitstable based artist, mainly working in linocut and mixed media. Originally trained in sculpture in the.1970's Ruth followed an unrelated career path but maintained some art practice over the years. In the last ten years Ruth has been able to focus more on her art practice. She is frequently inspired by seen imagery, often landscape based and portrayed in a loose sometimes abstracted style but is increasingly interested in narrative
Dawn Buckland
After leaving school in 1974, Dawn's first job was in a printing press workshop, She followed this by working in a pottery, using different glazing techniques. Over the subsequent years Dawn was always drawn to the versatility, fun and a wide range of printing and lino cutting. When retired she found time to indulge in various art forms but always enjoyed lino cutting, finding it to be therapuetic and is often surprised by the outcome.
Dawn says
'I love the Horsebridge art centre print club, I have met some lovely people, there are novices like me and others who have a lot of experience, we share ideas and techniques.
I have also had the opportunity to try other art forms like engraving. I always come away feeling inspired and looking forward to the following month.
Rochelle runs the group, I have learnt so much from her and broadened my understanding of printing whilst gaining confidence to try new skills.'
Amelia Mulvey
Amelia’s professional experience extends from teaching art in secondary schools and adult education in London and South Wales to lecturing in Higher Education in the Midlands.
Formative events of Amelia’s practice have been exhibiting large stained canvasses at the ICA, Pall Mall; A Stream of Honey, an installation where a thread of honey fell from the height of the foyer onto a glass topped show case, in Birmingham Institute of Art and Design; Hay in Salem Chapel, an installation of hay through the pews of a disused chapel in Hay on Wye, and the completion of my MPhil thesis, Art and the Divine. This research explored the nature of our inspiration, and our relationship, to making art, and these concerns underpin her art practice.
Nowadays Amelia makes small assemblages, prints draws and paints in her studio. She chooses methods and materials that best explore her thoughts and responses to what is around her.
Amelia takes part in East Kent Artists’ Open Houses and welcomes you to see her studio during three weekends in October.
https://ekoh.org.uk/whitstable/
email: amelia.mulvey@gmail.com
instagram: @mulvey.amelia
The aim of the print club is to provide inspiration and support for anyone wanting to work with printing techniques –
Whether you are a relative beginner or an established artist/printmaker, joining Print Club gives you so much more than just affordable access to printmaking equipment, materials and technical support, Print Club membership gives you access to technical support and being part of a network of people who share a passion for printmaking.
New members are welcome, there is no monthly commitment, you can pick and choose the dates you can attend throughout the year, however we do recommend booking.
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