Pattern & Print - Gelli plate Meets Linocut

Drawing skills are not essential.

Two techniques, two days, one growing pile of pattern to play with. This workshop brings gelli plate printing and linocut together, so each one feeds the other — and by the end, you'll have a body of work that's entirely your own to build on. You will be encouraged to explore mark making with linocuts first to build your mark making skills and then to make a small plate for the following day that follows a theme of your choice which you will caryy through to day two of gelli-plate printing, building up a stock of printed papers, marks and textures — that you can begin combining in ways you unexpected ways. It's playful, hands-on, and a great way to see how far a small set of simple techniques can stretch.

Carol Nunan Isle of Bute Printmaker, Sithean Studio 16 Academy Road, Rothesay, PA20 0BG,