A beautiful new silkscreen edition has just been completed for NT artist and outstanding landscape painter Angelina George. Basil is seen at left working on the 10 colour silkscreen BHE has recently completed for Djilpin Arts in Katherine and Beswick. We have been fortunate that Megalo Print Studio and Gallery has still been open in...
Printmaker, Antonia Aitken has been assisting Basil with a number of new editions for Beswick, Iwantja Arts in Indulkana, Kaltjiti Arts in Fregon and Mimili Maku. Here Antonia is placing the paper over a new collagraph by Indulkana artist Whiskey Tjukangu. The collagraph block is actually a painted and carved woodblock, inked up intaglio. It...
Clinton Barker and Basil have been working at Megalo Print Studio on new silkscreen prints for Mimili Maku Arts Centre in South Australia and for Djilpin Arts in Beswick, NT. Because the BHE silkscreen gear is still on its way from Darwin, we accessed Megalo’s fine workshop in its last few weeks at the Watson...
Yes, it is about making prints and learning some new tricks, but two or three weeks on the beautiful island of Skopelos gives participants in our popular workshops more than enough time to explore, sail to neighbouring islands, visit neolithic tombs, walk up pine clad hills and along ancient goat tracks through scenic farmland and...
It’s on again! Basil and Steph head off in the coming weeks to Greece to prepare for this year’s two workshops on Skopelos. With 19 participants and three artists in residence to date, it will be a busy season on the island. The scene on the left is a typical taverna scene; this one is...
Two days before, this road was under metres of water. By the time we came out to Beswick to run the third day of our recent workshop, residents were fishing peacefully here as though nothing had happened. Artists worked on the extended deck of the art centre, painting silkscreen acetates and scratching etching plates as...
Basil and Nena Zanos have just returned from running workshops in Beswick (Wugularr) and Katherine in the Northern Territory. With the Wet Season finally starting in earnest, it was a damp affair. The team was caught by floodwaters across the Stuart Highway just north of Katherine on the first evening. Over 2 metres of water...
Well, a hard decision has been made; and that is NOT to go ahead with the move to our proposed new studio adjacent to Raft Artspace in Alice Springs. BHE was to have established the silkscreen equipment and one of our larger etching presses there in March, but we have decided to consolidate all the...
We were very sad to hear of the recent passing of Kaltjiti artist, Tjilpi (old man) Robin, whose beautiful series of drawings we are currently editioning at the Braidwood studio. Robin made the charcoal drawings on a special plastic drafting sheet which faithfully received all the tonal nuances of his shading. The sheets were sent...
Helen Mueller will also join us as an artist in residence on Skopelos in 2013. Helen is one of a small consortium of artists who have established the studio we use on the island for workshops and residencies, and this is her second visit. Helen will continue to research new ways of etching zinc plates...
Mieke Cohen from Sydney, NSW, will join Munich-based Australian artist Christopher Croft on the island in May 2013 and they will share the Milos studio during their stay. Mieke plans to make some more copper plate etchings (following her earlier visit to the island in 2010 – she is seen working hard at left) and...
The proud proprietor surveys the scene during our first workshop in Braidwood. The studio proved to be a great place to work when three artists travelled from Greece (via Bungendore), Mollymook and Griffith to attend a weekend try out of the facilities. We managed to pack plenty in to the time, using the aquatint facilities...
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