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Monthly Print Club
Our Print Club runs on the last Thursday of the month. Sometimes this may change. If it does, we will announce it here.
If you have an interest in Print Making in any of its many forms, then come along. Meet other like minded people. We have people of all abilities and at different stages of their printmaking journey. Beginners and more advanced, we welcome you to come along.
You may just want a couple of hours to work on a project whilst being able to talk to other creatives. You might want to discuss and share tips and tricks of printmaking processes. It may be that you would like to collaborate with others to have an exhibition or have a space to hire for workshops of your own. Sometimes it's just nice to have some company whilst doing some work. Sometimes we organise an activity to do whilst we are there and other times we decide as a group something to work on to bring in and show off.
Lets create a community of Print Makers in our area!
PRINT [WORKS] WESTON PRINT CLUB
A regular monthly meeting on the last Thursday of the month
We are running a social Print Club regularly at our workshop on the last Thursday of each month. The cost is £5 per person to cover our costs. Please keep an eye on our Instagram page for updates. Scroll down to see some pictures of previous Print Club activities.
NEXT PRINT CLUB IS THURSDAY OCTOBER 24TH 6 - 8PM.
Calendar
August - No Print Club. A theme has been set for work to show at the October Print Club. Create some work based on the theme 'Autumnal Season'. Ideas for this could be based on the seasonal changes or events that happen in the Autumn such as Halloween or harvest festival for example.
September 26th - Group 'Feast' Print. Everyone will get a piece of 10 x 10cm lino to carve on the theme of 'Feast' at the session. The plan will be to cut and print all the lino together to create a group artwork each. We may get around to printing at the end of this session, if not, we will print at the next print club.
October 24th - Seasonal themed print show and tell. Bring along your 'Autumnal season' themed print to share with the group. We will also finish off printing our lino from the previous session if required.
November 28th - Seasonal card exchange - For the final Print Club of the year we'll host a seasonal card exchange. Bring along a printed card with an envelope, we'll put them in a hat and take turns drawing one out to take home.
December - No Print Club
January - To be confirmed
February - To be confirmed
March - To be confirmed
Here are some images of what we have done at Print Club;
Collaborative lino print concertina book on the theme of 'Feast'
We spent Septembers Print Club starting to plan and carve the 10 x 10cm lino piece. In October, we started to print the lino pieces into big posters. Everyone had the opportunity to print the lino pieces in the order they wanted to make their A1 poster. In November we turned the pre printed book pages into a hard backed concertina book each.
'Space'
The prompt was 'Space' to be interpreted in any way.
Fossil Book
The prompt for this book was 'Fossil'. We Had a fantastic response for this one from our Print Clubbers.
Leap Year prints
As its a leap year and our Print Club falls on February 29th, we based our latest prints on the theme 'Leap'.
Fish themed Book
We had a print prompt 'fish' which we could interpret in what ever way we wanted in print. The only 'rule' was that it had to be A5 in size with a 1 inch border that would be for the binding of the book we were making them into. Everyone printed at least 20 prints of their fish edition so that everyone could have one each and make them into a book. We spent our January print club meet up binding our prints into books.
Here are all of the individual fish themed prints submitted for the book. There are a range of processes including lino, drypoint, gel plate, screen print and digital printing.
Secret Santa printed card swap
We each printed a Christmas card, bought it along to Print Club and had a lucky dip swap!
Map Project
We had some old maps that we each took one to work into, onto in whichever way we wanted. There was a diverse range of outcomes just from a map!
Embossed Wire Portraits
Starting with some soft modelling wire and some portrait imagery, we looked at manipulating the wire into shapes and popping them through the press with damp paper. Imaginations grew from portraits into other shapes and body parts!
North Somerset Arts Exhibition
We coincided our Aprils Print Club with an exhibition Private View. We had an exhibition of printed artworks by our Print Clubbers. Many of which had not showed their work before. This was a great opportunity for them to show off their work, sell their work and increase confidence in their abilities as a printmaker. It was a great success and we sold a lot of work to the public as a result. Well done everyone!
Homemade roller printing
We made our own rollers from pipe foam protector, cutting patterns in them to print. These are the patterns we made.
