PRINTMAKING with Hilary Daltry
An accessible workshop-based course covering all aspects of traditional intaglio printmaking and relief printing.
Each week introduces a different intaglio technique: monoprinting, etching, aquatint, drypoint, collagraph and relief printing: woodcut and linocut.
Demonstrations and handouts will guide you through each method. Direct, practical explanations and lots of room to experiment will help you find new ways of working.
Ideal for a beginner printmaker. Learn key print techniques in an encouraging atmosphere.
More experienced printers can choose to work more independently and produce print editions. With plenty of time for you to draw on your etching plates, as well as to print them, you can create prints in multiple stages or in different coloured inks.
Example class activities: monoprinting from still life direct observation or colour etching from a watercolour done at home.
Regular drawing from observation, and using sketchbooks is encouraged as a central aspect of developing imagery for prints. Printmaking can also be very painterly. Often an element of unpredictability makes the process more than just one of reproducing the source material. Understanding this is what makes printmaking a creative medium in its own right.
Fridays
25 April – 11 July / 10.00am – 4.00pm
12 weeks / No half term break
ABOUT THE TUTOR:
Hilary Daltry is a painter printmaker who studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (B.A. Painting) and at Chelsea School of Art (M.A. Printmaking).
She was awarded The Prix de Rome Scholarship in Printmaking in 1985-6 and a Greek government scholarship to Athens in 1988.
Always working from life she draws directly onto woodblocks.
The subject matter of her prints includes portraits, allegorical figures and fruits and flowers.
Her prints are often included in The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and she is a council member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.
Her work can be seen at the Bankside Gallery.
