News items and studio updates.
The Christmas market at Out of the Blue Drill Hall in Edinburgh was a bit of an experiment where the makers just dropped off their sales items for the staff to display and sell on their behalf. Visitors had to book a slot in advance so it wasn’t certain that enough people would sign up to make it worthwhile. In fact it was a sell out!
The yellow print top left went off to a new home and lots of other pieces were sold. A great idea by Out of the Blue staff for negotiating the current situation.
Lynda’s printmaking course is going well and still happening in the real world, with lots of anti-Covid precautions being taken. This term is mostly about learning different printing methods with some thoughts as to how to develop ideas over the whole year.
Here is a woodcut – the firsts woodcut Lynda has ever made!
Lynda also screenprinted some fabrics at a recent workshop with Blessed Unrest artist Lorna Brown at Out of the Blue Studios in Abbeyhill, Edinburgh. Some were made into small bags.
Lynda has started a year long printmaking course at Leith School of Art. She’s using it to enhance her practical skills and to challenge her ideas about what printmaking can be, beyond her present practice. Despite Covid, it has been possible to have a ‘real’ course.
She has also returned to Edinburgh Printmakers where she has resumed her screenprinting projects.
As part of the collective Bound:Unbound I was at Custom Lane in Leith last March for the Fruitmarket Gallery’s annual celebration of book culture. Unfortunately the remainder of this year’s artist book markets have been cancelled.
