Fun at the Fair

Posted on March 3, 2015 by jcb990

‘This is a beautiful stand with exquisite work – well done’ a much appreciated comment from an early visitor to the Fruitmarket event.

The Edinburgh Bookfair was a great opportunity to show off my books of relief prints that I have been making over the past few years, along side sculptural maquette’s of unfolding wire lines and constructed wire fabrics which have inspired the prints.

Some works are still for sale: Wandering line books A6 & A7 (black & white) £26

positive and negative line prints

Constructed fabric print books A6 £30

Recycled Scrap Books A6 £15

All prices include P & P in the UK, e mail for posting prices abroad

Seaweed: relief

Posted on February 14, 2014 by jcb990

After months away from the printing press I have spent the last two days indulging in examining and printing a beautiful array of seaweed samples that I collected on the west coast of Ross-shire and Sutherland whist I was undertaking research into beach litter for my Littoral art project.

Seaweeds have so many similarities with the botanical forms that I have worked with that I decided to find out more about them by taking an introductory course in Seaweeds at the University of Edinburgh

In the six weeks of study we began to glimpse the extraordinary range of seaweeds around our shorelines and started to understand the categorisations of the algae washed up on beaches we know.

As with botanical prints pressing samples carefully is extremely important, even more so with the fine seaweeds that don’t have a strong internal structure. I began experimenting ways of pressing and preserving seaweeds for printing. The seaweeds in these prints are all from the Loch Broom area.

The wracks seen here print well being strong enough to take a firm pressure through the rollers, while the finer more delicate seaweeds need a damper paper and less pressure to achieve a good print.

These prints have been made as rewards for crowd funding sponsors of my littoral art project and as such I decided to print them on sustainable paper using Khadi paper (recycled fabric fibre) and newspaper in keeping with the underpinning project message that we need to use less and to recycle more to help maintain a resilient environment.

Tomorrow they will be being packaged up and posted to my sponsors. I hope you like them! Seaweed prints made for sale will be posted soon.

Day Course – Introduction to relief printing May 18th

Posted on March 11, 2013 by jcb990

Steeple Arts Centre – in Fife, Scotland.

Saturday May 18th 10am- 4pm

A one day introductory relief printing course with the opportunity to use a flatbed printing press is being planned in April/May, dates to be confirmed. We will be experimenting with a wide selection of materials playing with different techniques, colour combinations and papers. Each student will create a series of three exciting prints by the end of the day.

The course will be taught by Artist Julia Barton. Julia specialises in relief printing often using plant materials and sculptural fabrics, a selection of her prints can be viewed on this blog.

Equipment will be provided. Students will be asked to bring their own workshop aprons. The course will take place between 10am -4pm. The course fee is £60 for the day, with a small charge for paper and ink of £5 per student.

Course numbers are limited to ensure a good learning experience. Minimum numbers are required for the course to run so it is helpful if students can book their place early.

Free taster session will be held at the Steeple Arts Centre on Thursday 21st of March at 3-4pm

Artist Julia Barton will demonstrate and explain relief printing techniques. She will share her passion for printing directly from materials such fabric, mesh and plants to create intriguing and exquisite prints on a variety of papers. You will be welcome to select materials with which to compose and print a simple bookmark to take away using a flatbed roller press. She hopes you too will be excited by the results and want to join her day course later in the spring.

For information and bookings please contact: julia_barton@btinternet.com 07977997605

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