Attended a great workshop’creative etching” yesterday at the Print Centre in Wrexham. It was run by Marcelle Hanselaar
http://www.marcellehanselaar.com/
Apart from being a master artist Marcelle is also a gifted teacher. What struck me most about the workshop was the silent engagement when people were working on their plates. There were also moments of sharing when people proofed their plates or when Marcelle introduce some new thoughts or techniques.
It’s probably too much of a generalisation but what struck me was the difference between a fine art studio and a print room; the studio tends to be a place of individual isolation, where as the print room tends towards being a community, a place of sharing. A workshop.
The way that the artist talking blog is set up feels to me more like a studio than a community. Going through the blogs very few people take advantage of the comments space and there’s no place to take any emerging discussion into a public forum.
