Our technician Kate Desforges has been spending some dedicated print research days in the studios recently, most recently exploring photo-etching. This time is hugely important to refine particular processes and try out new ones, ensuring that we can continue to offer a wide range of printmaking techniques to our community of printmakers, and importantly, to make […]
Our technician Kate Desforges has been spending some dedicated print research days in the studios recently, most recently exploring photo-etching. This time is hugely important to refine particular processes and try out new ones, ensuring that we can continue to offer a wide range of printmaking techniques to our community of printmakers, and importantly, to […]
We are really excited to introduce our two new Print Fellows – Fleur Ward and Bach Singh.  They’ll be with us for a year and they’ll be in the workshops on a regular basis from mid-October, so do say hi! We can’t wait to welcome them into our artist community and see what they get up to in the print studios. Read a bit more about them in […]
Our second career spotlight today is Kate Desforges. Kate is an artist, printmaker and our print studio coordinator here at WYPW!Â
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Michelle Keegan is no stranger to our workshop or indeed WYPW having received our Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking back in 2014. An experienced printmaker, Michelle has been sharing her love and passion for print …
‘Becalmed’ opens to the public on 26th September at Unit 2 in the Piazza shopping centre and runs until 31st October.
Tom Ratcliffe is an artist and art historian who lives and works in Brighouse, West Yorkshire. Tom creates artwork in a variety of media including painting, print and sculpture.
Etching is an intaglio method of printmaking which uses an acid or mordant to make marks in a metal plate surface to create a design to be printed from. A metal plate, (usually copper, zinc or steel), is covered with a thin layer of waxy ground which is resistant to acid. The ground is then […]