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...
New prints for Kaltjiti Arts
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...
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...
More Greek prints from the workshops in 2012
Merle Clarkson’s etching, done during the Skopelos workshops in 2012. The print, on copper plate, was done first with a hard ground (scratched) line, and then aquatinted to create the various tones.
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