Charlotte Kimberlee works on the new collaborative print
One of the eight participating artists in this year’s Basil Hall Editions’ workshops in Greece, Charlotte Kimberlee, is seen here commencing work on a large sugarlift etching being undertaken by the whole group. The piece will ultimately be a multi plate colour etching measuring 120 x 80cms.
Artist at work on Skopelos, Greece
Kat Kershaw, one of a group of Australian artists currently working with Basil Hall and Steph Bolt on Skopelos Island, Greece. Kat is pictured painting her section of a large sugarlift etching being undertaken collaboratively by all eight participants. The print will be editioned in Australia at Basil Hall Editions and will be launched later...
A large collaborative print from Skopelos
Kate Furnell leads a discussion in our Milos studio about the collaborative print being undertaken by our first group of artists on Skopelos this year. The final work, comprising 8 copper plates, will be a multi plate colour etching and include contributions from Basil and Steph, the workshop leaders, plus all 8 of our workshop...
An outdoor drawing studio, Skopelos 2013
One of the first days of our 2013 printmaking workshops in Greece was spent drawing en plein air a few kilometres from the studio. We took the Glisteri road and walked up an old calderimi track to a clearing on the right which contained a small church. Some of our artists settled in to draw...
First 2013 Skopelos Workshop winds up on Sunday
Three of the participants in our May-June 2013 workshop working on a large group devised copper plate etching which will be editioned back in Australia at Basil Hall Editions. The piece will measure 120 x 80cms and the subject matter will inevitably concern itself with Greek cuisine. The workshop will wind up on Sunday June...
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...
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...
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...
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