Essentially two kinds of people come to work with Maureen:
1. Students and printmakers who want to hone their skills and learn new techniques, both for creating plates and for printing them. These people usually choose one of Maureen’s two-week courses, where they share both work and recreational experiences with two or three other course participants. There’s a lot to see and do in Granada.
2. Professional and serious amateur artists from all disciplines–including printmakers–who want to collaborate on a one-on-one basis with Maureen, either to transfer their vision onto inked plates or to work on special projects such as printing plates creatively, preparing exhibits or creating artist’s books.
Though Maureen has always worked in traditional intaglio printmaking, and she still does a lot of that, in recent years she has found her course participants demanding more solar plate techniques. This is for several reasons:
- They’re non toxic.
- Solar plate permits artists to incorporate their existing work–sketches, drawings and even watercolors–into their work.
- For artists who want to include text or calligraphy in their prints, solar plate permits them to do it normally. As the image is not reversed, they are not obliged to write backwards.
- Computer techniques can be incorporated by printing designs on laser acetates.
- The artists get up to speed is much quicker. Course participants can usually see their first prints on the second day.
Another technique which Maureen’s course participants
find fascinating and fun is what she calls “liquid metal printmaking.”
It’s based on a metallic gunk which Spanish plumbers use for joining pipes. But if you spread it on a plate it takes 10-15 minutes to dry to a hard metallic surface, which gives an artist just then these plates are inked and printed imaginatively the results are astonishing, invariably evoking the question when exhibited, even from knowledgeable printmakers: “How did you do that?”
If you would like more information on individual collaborative work with Maureen, just drop her an email.
Hi. Looking for a few days from 22October
Hi Trish, thanks for your enquiry. The studio is free round the last week in October and the first of November. So essentially whenever you like. When you get your flight reserved, let me know and I’ll confirm your booking. Do you have a website where I can see some of your work?