Sally Hirst
15th - 17th September
£475
Printmaking for Collage: an artist's approach to combining processes
This three-day course coincides with the publication of Sally’s book that explores creating unique papers to use in collage. Sally is known for the rich and varied work that she creates from her hand printed papers. Her experimental and painterly approach allows for a great deal of play and exploration at both the print making stage, and when using the papers for collage.
Day 1. Sally will introduce the course by discussing the range of printmaking techniques and specialist papers that can be used. We will start the course considering possible palettes, themes and motifs that will run as threads through the work. Students will create a series of plates, masks and stencils based on their ideas. The rest of the day students will explore using painterly monotype techniques to build their first pile of collage papers.
Day 2. Sally will discuss shape, line and texture in terms of both relief and intaglio techniques. The final part of the day will be dedicated to a ‘hybrid’ printing session: mixing up techniques, pushing ideas further.
Day 3 Having created our papers this day is all about collage and composition. Sally will advise on which papers to use to explore opacity and transparency, concealing and revealing. Students will create cohesive and exciting work on a range of substrates, with plenty of collage papers to take home.
This course is suitable for both beginners and those with experience. With a small group Sally will be able to work with students 1-2-1. Those with experience will benefit from Sally’s experimental approach and encouraged to push past traditional methodologies.
Materials will be provided but participants will be asked to bring some basic equipment.
Lunches and refreshments included. Days run from 10am to 4pm (ish)
About Sally
Sally is a professional artist educated to Masters level and qualified teacher with decades of experience. From her studio in Norwich she creates prints, collages, and mixed media paintings informed by the textures colours and structures of the environment. By choosing processes that allow the interplay of both formal and contingent elements she aims to create a tension in the work, between intention and chance, control and accident, past and present, concealing and revealing.
Her work is in collections worldwide and she exhibits regularly in the UK and in Spain where she lived before the pandemic. She has been featured in a number of publications including SuzIe Mackenzie’s Collagraphy Printmaking.
Since 2020 she has been teaching thousands of artists online. This course at Lund is the first in-person course she has run since the pandemic.
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