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Upcoming Workshops
Sat 31 MayEdinburghThis morning workshop can be combined with an afternoon lino pattern session to make a full day experience and get 10% off!
Sat 31 MayEdinburghThis afternoon session can be booked with the morning Indian Block Printing session to make a full day of it and to get 10% off!
Indian block printing
Get a taste of the ancient art of Indian block printing using similar wooden blocks. Use these beautifully hand-carved blocks to create your own pattern and colour combinations on textile or paper items.
Linocut block printing
If you're dying to do more - let's look at how pattern works. How are repeat motifs structured? Have a try at designing your own motif, carefully carve it into lino and then print your own pattern.
About Karené
Hi! I'm Karené and I will be your host for your printmaking workshops. I am an artist and a photographer, a printmaker and a pattern addict! I create my own motifs with linocuts, and also have a growing collection of hand carved wooden blocks from India that I enjoy using.
The process of block printing is calming and meditative, and at the same time there's something really satisfying and exciting about gradually seeing a pattern grow on your fabric. Combining your own choice of colours and pattern motifs means the options for creativity are endless. There's something joyful, meaningful and magical about physically using your hands to create and I want to share this joy.
I am currently teaching workshops in pattern printing and pattern design at various venues including the Scottish School of Craft and the Spinal Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Qualifications: I have a Fine Art degree in Studio Practice and History of Art; a PGCert in Applied Art and Social Practice; and I have studied an introductory course in Art Psychotherapy at Glasgow University. After many years of working as a photographer my love for printmaking was reignited out of a deep need to make with my hands again. That need lead me to a course in Oxford and I am now also a certified block printing tutor.
The video below shows the process of block printing, with my own lino-cut motif.
Contact me to host your block printing workshop!
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