Printmaking Courses in Spain

An article by Maureen Booth in the summer 2011 edition of Printmaking Today, the British fine-art-printmaking magazine with subscribers worldwide which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year

In this one-page article Maureen discusses the importance of Internet in the life of a working artist and gives some hints on how artists can create their own Internet strategy.  “This is ironic coming from me,” she says, “as I used to be complete Internet Luddite!”

Maureen also discusses the various delights of her adopted city, Granada, with its round-the-clock street activities, its historic monuments and its cultural initiatives. The rest of Granada province is also powerfully attractive, with landscapes which range from desert to seaside to paradisiacal gardens and orchards. The artist declares herself a fan of “low-mountain” activities like hiking, mushroom hunting and gathering pine cones for the fireplace.

She devotes the last third of the article to her printmaking workshops and collaborative work with both printmakers and artists from other disciplines, pointing out the rising interest she detects in newer techniques such as solar-plate prints and liquid metal techniques. These latter she describes as “based on a metallic gunk Spanish plumbers use for joining pipes, but it can be spread on plates to create great effects when printed.”

P.S. The magazine published a one-page abridgment of the story. To see the complete version go to the Pomegranate Editions section of the Print Workshop Central site, and scroll down past all the photos to the fifth article, entitled “Burning Plates and Making Prints in the Spanish Sun.”