second week in… i got up at 6am yesterday to get to my studio for 9am, got home at 9pm, did 10 miles walking from train stations to places.. living in the country next to the mountains is beautiful but hard work without a car.
i met lots of the kids from year 10 yesterday, think i might have bombarded them with technical information :-) they seemed enthusiastic tho, plan is to run a workshop next monday morning with them, i’m going to give them some drypoint card and acetate to draw onto till then and they’ll bring them in monday and we’ll drypoint them and print them, i think it’s going to be the first real use the press gets although i am going to test run it today.
i’m going to have help from friends at the regional print centre as well, which will be great fun for me and for the kids i think and then the work is going to go up on show along side some of my work at the memorial gallery in yale college, wrexham. The work will be an introduction to this project and will be shown as part of an exhibition of stamps designed by children who worked on a project with Brian Jones and Linda Davies.
i am also going on a school trip! to Liverpool in May with the year 10 group to see the Walker art gallery and the museum.
for now tho i think i need to finish work i’m submitting for printfest 2010 next week and think about new work!
