Posted in Granada, Maureen Booth, Pomegranate Editions, Printmaking in Spain, tagged Grandchildren Maureens Studio, Maureen Booth Granada, Mauren Booth Studio on September 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Artists books, Granada, Maureen Booth, Pomegranate Editions, tagged Artists book, Libro de Artista, Lola Sánchez, Maureen Booth, Teresa Gómez on August 31, 2015| 2 Comments »
A couple of months ago Teresa Gómez and Lola Sánchez asked me if I would help them design and put together an artist’s book made up of a poem by Teresa and images by Lola. It sounded like a delicious little project for summer mornings. These are the pictures that Mike made today when we started pulling the edition. We´re all delighted with what we have achieved.
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Posted in Granada, Maureens printmaking workshops, Printmaking in Spain, tagged Granada Spain, Jess Klausen workshop, Maureen Booth Granada, Maureen Booth printmaker on August 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Jess is a lovely girl and was a pleasure to work with. She seemed to have a sense of purpose beyond her 20 years, learning the techniques of creative printmaking very fast. I was able to let her do her own printing after a few days. She has a lot of natural charm and also very keen to learn about solar plates and the liquid metal technique. Jess left with some very interesting prints which we made together and also a lot she created on her own. She also loved the city of Granada, where she would go lots of afternoons using the local bus service. We will miss you, Jess. Come back when you can.
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.From the visitors’ book:
I will always remember my time here with joy. I have learnt so much about art, Spain and myself. It’s an experience I will always treasure. Maureen, you and Miguel have been more than accommodating during my time here. So thank you. You have taught me such a mass of things. Perhaps I will see you in New Zealand!
Love, Jess — Keep in touch!
17 August 2015
Posted in Featured Posts, Granada, Maureen's World, Workshops, tagged Carole Pearson, Maureen studio retrospective, printmakiing in Spain, printmaking in Granada on May 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Carole Pearson is a English painter and printmaker who came to my studio for a week last summer after a two-week walking holiday in Andalusia. As well as being an engaging person, she’s a born artist who took to the studio like a natural. By the end of the week we were soul sisters and she’s coming back at the end of this month (May, 2015) to mount a joint exhibit with me at my new mini-gallery and studio.
Here are some of her observations from her stay in the Gallinero:
Instead of going to art school, I went to work in a bank. Not that I miss formal art training. I’ve always suspected–and this week working with Maureen in her studio has confirmed–that my work is more original for not having entered into the system. What Maureen made clearer than ever to me was that what an artist expresses sincerely is all valid.
I really had no idea what to expect, beyond an etching press and a nice person whom I had been corresponding with by email. But in the end it was a tremendously fulfilling experience. I’m convinced that I’ve advanced more than a year in printmaking in just one week’s intensive work with Maureen. Working one on one with a master is such a luxury.
From the visitors’ book: “Thank you so much for a wonderful week. I am rested, instructed, filled with creative hope and stuffed with all the goodies you keep bringing me. And not to forget Mike’s paella–a dream.”
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Posted in Featured Posts, Granada, Maureen's World, Workshops, tagged Iram Wani, Jennifer Morgan family, Jini Grinwald Melbourne, Lorna Ryan-Burden, Louis Netter, Maureen studio retrospective, printmaking Granada Spain, printmaking Maureen Booth, printmaking with Maureen on April 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I received an email from Jennifer Morgan in Nova Scotia asking me if I could mount a one-day solarplate printing workshop in my studio for herself and six family members, as a creative stop on their trip to Spain. I thought, “That’s impossible.” But I, who believe in the impossible, said “Fine. Come on over. We’ll give it a try.”
On the day, I had the great good luck that all Jennifer’s family had surprising artistic talent, which they may have inherited from their mother, the Canadian novelist, Bernice Morgan. (See photos) The quantity and quality of work they produced in a single day, their first, was impressive. I tremble to think what they could have achieved in a week.
Posted in Featured Posts, Granada, Maureen's World, Workshops, tagged Fran Ramírez, Gyla Friewald, IB School Bremen, Louis Netter illustrator, Maureen Booth printmaker, Maureen printmaking workshops, Maureen studio retrospective, printmaking in Spain, printmaking with Maureen on April 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Fran Ramírez is a talented and dedicated artist. We have been doing collaborative work together in my studio for more than 10 years. As you can see from the images below, Fran has his own particular view of life in Spain plus a unique vision in his paintings and prints. He has recently finished the restoration work on a new studio in Madrid for himself and his photographer wife, Marta. It also includes a discreet exhibit space. We’re anxious to see the work they hang up there.
Posted in Featured Posts, Granada, Maureen's World, Workshops, tagged Dave McConnell, Debbie Haskard, Deborah Maris Lader, Edith May, Maureen Booth printmaker, Maureen studio retrospective, printmaking courses Spain, printmaking Granada, Spain on April 7, 2015| 2 Comments »
Dave McConnell was a special person and it was a privilege to have him in my studio for a week’s collaborative work in photogravure solar plate. To begin with, a few days after he returned home to Boston he turned 90. He was accompanied on this trip to Spain by his son, a banker with the Boston Fed. Dave, who had spent his working life as a photographer at the Boston Globe, was the quintessence of the charming Irishman with a young heart, excellent humor and that glint in his eye. His project was to make a four-color solarplate photogravure print from a color photograph he had made many years before. This was new territory for me; we both learned a lot from the experience. And we had a grand time in the process. Here’s some pictures Mike made.
Posted in Featured Posts, Granada, Maureen's World, Workshops, tagged Abbie Luck, Karoline Piedra, Lorna Ryan-Burden, Maureen Booth, Maureen studio retrospective, printmaking courses Spain, printmaking Granada, printmaking Spain on February 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »
At the time Abbie came to my workshop, in 2005 I think, she had just gotten a job as art teacher at a fancy girls’ school in London and was eager to expand her repertoire of techniques. She took naturally to solarplate printmaking and did some interesting work while she was here. She liked solarplate particularly as it was something she could teach her students without getting involved with acid and resins. She quickly made friends with Karoline Piedra, the American artist from Massachusetts who was on holiday from her day job in Switzerland. That’s the two of them below, captured on a day that Mike and his mate, Curro, were doing some electronic flash tests that somehow got mixed with a wine tasting. That’s probably why the two girls seem to glisten in the photograph.
From a comment by Abbie on my Printmaking Courses in Spain blog: “Thank you for everything. I am leaving with a wealth of knowledge, but also wonderfully relaxed. You have been so welcoming. I have come to feel really at home in your studio and in Granada. I couldn’t have asked for a better working holiday. I will most definitely be back to visit.”
Posted in Featured Posts, Granada, Maureen's World, Workshops, tagged Barbara Pflanz Nagasawa, Berto Concepcion Medina, Carmen Almécija, Esperanza Romero, Maureen Booth printmaking, Maureen Booth studio, Maureen studio retrospective, Michieletto, printmaking Granada on January 28, 2015| 1 Comment »
Mike and I were reminiscing the other evening about all of the wonderful people who have come to Granada to work with me in my studio over the years when he said, “Why don’t we do a multí-chapter post that is a tribute to all of them? Do you have samples of their work?” That’s how this project was born, and it’s turning out to be a fascinating stroll for me through years of printmaking, teaching, and collaborative work with other artists. I hope it will be that for some of you, too.
What follows is the first chapter in a retrospective virtual exhibit of work done by the artists who have worked with me in my studio over many years. They have come from all over the world, from Canada and the U.S.A to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Australia, and many places in between. They appear here in roughly chronological order. Their work includes a wide variety of techniques: traditional acid etching, collage, variations on solar-plate printmaking, liquid metal, photogravure, linocuts, etc. The photographs used here of the artists and their work were mainly done by Mike while they were here. Where available we have included excerpts from the messages they left in my visitors’ book as they were leaving. Let’s start at the beginning.
Printmaking Courses in Spain 