Basil on the one arm at Megalo
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...
New prints for Mimili Maku
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...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to our loyal readers
I came across this amongst the Christmas photos and realised I hadn’t wished everyone a Merry one. From all of us at BHE (that’s only Basil at present until printing gets underway in the second week of January), I hope you, our loyal friends and clients, had a Merry Christmas and will have a wonderful...
Artist in Residence at Milos Studio, Skopelos
Munich-based artist, Christopher Croft, will be our first artist in residence at Milos Studios on Skopelos this year. He and Basil have collaborated on numerous editions since the 1980′s, so it will be great to reunite in Paradise once again! Christopher (seen at left working with Basil in Darwin in 2010) will work for two...
Back to work…in Canberra
Basil Hall Editions may have moved south, but work continues on projects begun in the Top End. Basil is currently printing up editions of the “Seven Sisters” etchings by the seven Yunupingu sisters from Yirrkala. Although our new studios in Braidwood and Alice are not yet set up, the etchings are being done using the...
Another print comes off the Classic press
Steph helps Liz Morell run a series of embossings of found objects through the smaller of our two presses during the July workshop on Skopelos. Participants have been making soft and hard ground etchings, aquatints, sugar lifts, linocuts and more! The weather has been perfect, so it has been hard to decide what to do...
The souvlaki chef, Skopelos 2012
After nearly two weeks of delectable vegetable dishes, the gang was ready for a big meat cook-up! Chef Tim Kelly is seen here doing the cooking, while behind him the tables are laid and ready for our latest feast; this time at Milos Studios, where most of us are staying. The second printmaking workshop is...
Modelling the new apron
Lizzie Horne came prepared for the workshop with a unique wardrobe, designed to please the toughest of tutors. She’s standing proudly in front of the print rack, which she’s in the process of filling, as I write, with an edition of reduction linocuts.
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