Course Description
Join us to explore this versatile and exciting intaglio technique. Using drypoint mark-making, we will create beautiful atmospheric artworks by scraping into re-purposed empty drink cartons. This is a more sustainable way to print using minimal equipment that can be continued at home.
Feel free to bring images to work from but if you are short of ideas, don’t worry we will have plenty of source material. This is suitable for beginners and those with experience, you will be taught in an encouraging and supportive atmosphere, even people who say they can’t draw can create beautiful prints.

What you will learn
How to create a design
Mark-making techniques
How to ink and wipe an intaglio plate
Printing with a press

Please wear old clothes or bring an apron and reading glasses if you wear them.

Important information for workshop participants

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided. If you are attending a full day workshop there will be time to go into Ulverston for lunch, or you may like to bring a packed lunch with you. On Saturday and Sunday the Printfest Vintage Bakes café at The Coro will be open for lunches and other refreshments.

Please bring an apron or wear old clothes – printmaking can be messy!

Before attending it would be helpful to have a think about what images you would like to produce and bring along some sources of inspiration. If you are struggling to think of ideas your tutor will be able to help and will have some source materials you can use at the workshop.

You are also entitled to free entry to the main exhibition (Saturday & Sunday).

Your Tutor:
Emily is an artist, printmaker and mountain enthusiast, she mostly works in relief printmaking and is constantly inspired by the mountainous landscapes she immerses herself within. Usually, just a brief moment or a passing glimpse triggers a desire to create. Each experience is held, allowing it time to develop as a memory and work only begins once the memory has settled. The most enduring aspects of any scene are consequently the ones that feature most prominently; a larger than life mountain, a simplified pattern, exaggerated negative spaces – all linked by the desire to cherish and share the lived connection between the landscape and the viewer.
www.theartofemilybrooks.com
@theartofemilybrooks

Emily Brooks is a member of Cumbria Printmakers
www.cumbriaprintmakers.co.uk