Sussex Prairie Garden is open until 13th October 2024. Our opening days and hours are wednesday to sunday . 1pm until 5pm . Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays . Dogs are welcome.
Our next super Event will be our Beautiful and Useful Craft Fair this coming weekend 14th and 15th September - 11am until 5pm - expect over 30 exhibitors all set in a glorious garden setting . Delicious refreshments , live music ,art exhibition , plant sale and of course homemade cake. Dogs very welcome !
We will be exploring Tetra Pak intaglio printing by working into food packaging to create layers with a drypoint tool. This will introduce you to the idea of producing detailed lines and textures in the soft surface before running them through the press. This is a great introduction to using recycled packaging as well as merging the technique with collagraph.
I have been working as a collagraph printmaker for over 25 years and love building up textures and marks with a variety of collage materials on a mount card plate. You will learn how to construct interesting textured printing plates using metallic card, papers and precut pattern pieces as well as tapes and found textures before cutting areas away.
The collagraph plate will then be sealed and dried before being inked using intaglio etching inks and passed through an etching press with dampened paper. We will explore the wonders of black intaglio inking but can also add sensitive intuitive highlights of colour with layers of collage tissue and also gelliprint papers . This is a flexible and inexpensive technique that results in rich, textured prints. Each time the paper is lifted the results are never the same and is always very rewarding.
This workshop is suitable for beginners or any artists interested in expanding their print- making skills.
Cost for the day plus entry to garden and materials is £65 which includes all materials, coffee, tea and biscuits as well as the garden entry for the day.
Please email emmaktaylor@hotmail.com or 07540191437 for more details and booking.
Emma is a artist, printmaker and educator teaching from Lupin Cottage Workshops in East Sussex. She is currently Leader of Art and Photography in Seahaven as well as running weekly art classes from her home and studio.
She also leads a new group of artists as Salt Edge Arts showing at South Hill Barn in Seaford.
Emma has been teaching inspiring workshops at Sussex Prairie Gardens since 2017 and we are thrilled that she will be our Artist in Residence again with Amanda Duke in 2024.
www.emmataylorprintmaker.co.uk
www.saltedgearts.com
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Paul & Pauline McBride,
Sussex Prairie Garden
Morlands Farm, Wheatsheaf Road (B2116),
near Henfield, West Sussex, BN5 9AT
