Skopelos printmaking workshops kick off in Greek Spring
The lucky participants in the 2013 printmaking workshops on Skopelos will begin arriving today. The island is turning on a beautiful spring, with wildflowers and herbs growing in great profusion. Everywhere, houses in the village are being spruced up with fresh whitewash on their already gleaming walls and coats of (blue) paint on their shutters....
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...
One more to tempt you next year!
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...
First Skopelos Workshops for 2013 starting soon
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...
Through the Beswick floodwaters
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...
April Workshops in Beswick and Katherine
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...
Sadly, we never made it to Alice
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...
Another 2013 Artist in Residence at the Skopelos studio
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...
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...
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