A Look At: Curwen Print Study Centre

The Curwen Print Study Centre is a valuable resource for students and artists who do not have their own presses or equipment. In a building at Chilford Hall, just next to a lovely winery, there is a large room crowded

This week’s work

This week was hectic. I produced three screen prints in one day, for a total of seven layers of paint, including mixing, testing, remixing, and printing, and then the next day I had friends to stay over. My futon was

A short review of my work

I have a review. In discussion over a print of mine: ‘That’s 3.826 bearsplosiotons. A bearsplosioton equaling about 2,000 bearsplosions, the standard unit of measure of awesome.’ A single bearsplosion is about how awesome something is if it is only

Green Pot, day 3

The day’s painting was frustrating, because I could not exactly match the colours I had mixed last time I worked on this piece. Part of that reason was that I was painting thicker.

Green Pot, day 2

Today I went over the background with a variety of tones, most of them green that I had mixed up. Using a colour from the tube would have given me a flatness I wanted to avoid.

Green Pot, day 1

Having had positive feedback for Blue on Blue, a tonal piece almost totally in one colour, and the impact of similar red and yellow pieces, I decided to continue in that vein, with a deep green, and another yellow more

Short-term Plans

Do you want to have input into my work? Is there anything you would like me to produce? I have booked into an open day at the Curwen Print Studio, and will be creating several prints over the course of