Author: Elephant Grass Printmakers Society

Hands-On Printmaking Experience: May 17 at EGPS

The 2025 Saturday Open House season has begun! Join your EGPS printmakers for a day of inky fun and hands on demos on Saturday May 17, 11am -2pm at our studio, 240 St. George Str., 2nd floor, Annapolis Royal.

Sheri Jean Hancock will be showing the magical effects of a rainbow roll on a relief print. Or print your own mini letterpress takeaway plus on one of our letterpresses.

Bonnie Baker of Bonnie Baker Studio will be demonstrating how to do polaroid lifts in her adjourning studio.

Are you thinking about a printmaking activity or a project in the works in your future? You are welcome to come by, check out the different ways you can print at the studio or be involved as a member or just hang out for the conversation. So why not drop in after your market shopping and play with us?

Boots on the Ground

Rainbow roll with multiple colours on the same roller.

Visiting Artist Open House POP UP

Drop by Elephant Grass Printmakers on Sunday, April 27 between 6-8pm to see what Basma Kavanagh, April’s Visiting Artist, has been creating during her time in the studio.

Basma will be showing her new prints, stitch and collage experiments and  give us a peak at some projects-in-progress.

Refreshments, nibbles  and conversation on hand.

240 St. George Str, 2nd Floor, Annapolis Royal. 

INK, PAPER, POSSIBILITY

an introduction to relief printmaking

Sundays, 1-3pm, April 6, 13, 20, 27

This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some printmaking experience. In this four-week class participants will learn the basics—and move beyond them—as we explore the possibilities of linocut, a versatile and accessible relief printmaking medium. Learn how to carve expressively, work with a range of papers and inking techniques, and get comfortable with the etching press. The possibilities are endless!

Basma is a Lebanese-Canadian artist whose multidisciplinary practice includes writing, drawing, printmaking, artist’s books, textiles, performance and land-based explorations. She lives in the Annapolis Valley, in the Sipekne’katik region of Mi’kma’ki.

$140 (members) $165 (non-members) Suitable for 18yrs. and up.

Register by contacting elephantgrassprint@gmail.com Payment via e-transfer, cash, or cheque. *Become an Associate Member ($50), get the workshop discount and future studio time for $20/day.

240 St. George Street, 2nd floor, Annapolis Royal

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2025 AGM and 1st Print Circle of the year.

Join us on Sunday March 2, 2025 from 1-2pm for our Annual General Meeting. If you are interested in renewing membership or knowing more about which type of membership may suit you, then come. Then hang out and chat with members at the following Print Circle 2-3:30pm.
There have be Doors Prizes but you have to come to win!

240 St. George Street, 2nd floor, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

PAINT, PLAY, PRINT: an interpretation of Nature through simple printmaking workshop.

Starting in February 2025, EGPS will be launching our 2025 workshops in four Thursday afternoons at the studio with Lorna Mulligan, exploring Nature with simple printmaking techniques.

Ease into printmaking through hands-on creative play and spend four afternoons with Lorna Mulligan. We’ll take a painterly, mixed-media approach which will involve lots of fun experimentation with simple printmaking ideas including monoprint and relief printing, letterpress, collage, embossing and ink marbling. The theme is: your interpretation of NATURE. You’ll learn a bit about composition and colour harmonies along the way, as we combine and layer our printed papers full of beautiful colour, textures and imagery.

Most material is supplied! Students are encouraged to bring some of their own papers to print upon, including found papers. Bring pencils, ruler, eraser, scissors and glue stick. EGPS will supply the printing ink, plates and the fine art papers for printing.

Lorna Mulligan is an artist, calligrapher and teacher who has recently moved to Nova Scotia from Montreal. She studied at the University of British Columbia and at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts. Her watercolours, artist’s books and mixed media artworks have been exhibited across Canada, in the US, and in Europe. She has been teaching art for over twenty-five years.

THURSDAYS, 12:30 – 2:30pm, FEB 13, 20, 27 and MARCH 6

$140 (members)* 165 (non-members) Suitable for 15yrs above. Why not renew your Membership or become an Associate Member now ($50) and get the discount?

Registration and payment can be made via e-transfer to elephantgrassprint@gmail.com, or by cash or cheque.

 Elephant Grass Printmaking Studio , 240 St. George Street, 2nd floor, Annapolis Royal, NS


PAINT, PLAY, PRINT!  Weekly Schedule

Wk 1 – Black ink, with brush and brayer, also the start of creating stamps and relief plates

Wk 2 – Printing on large papers, plus metallic ink on black paper, colored ink exploration

Wk 3 – Monoprinting various ways, some embossing and start of Tetrapak plate drawings

Wk 4 – Printing Tetrapak prints, Letterpress words or phrases, assemble artwork into folder

ALL INKED UP!

ALL INKED UP! We are delighted to present our exhibit of finely crafted prints from Elephant Grass Printmakers Society illustrating the art of creative printmaking. With linocut, woodcut, etching, papercutting, collage, paper folding, monoprinting, tetrapak, cyanotype and letterpress processes, EGPS members explore the tradition of making artworks on paper and cloth the slow way, by hand, sweat and imagination.

The exhibit runs Sept 1- Oct 15 at Sissiboo Cafe and Gallery in Bear River, NS, until it moves to theSissiboo Cafe in Annapolis Royal, Oct. 16- Nov 30.

A few sneak peeks of the diversity of print techniques employed by our members. The images are only a small selection of what is in the show and really doesn’t do justice to seeing the prints in person. If you can visit, it is so much more satisfying.

Members showing in ALL INKED UP! are Janel, Warmington, Shela Breau, Lorna Mulligan, Katie Prescott, Charlott Zimmermann, Constance Whittaker, Bonnie Baker, Eva MacCauley, Micheline Gushue and Julie Rosvall.

Katie Prescott, Woodshed Press, letterpress in thrifted frame
CharlottZimmerman, linocut
Connstance Whittaker, stencil print and mixed medium
Charlott Zimmermann, Linocut
Shela Breau, linocut
Janel Warmington, Linocut with chine colle
Lorna Mulligan, Tetrapak
Lorna Mulligan, Letterpress, collage, monprint
Lorna Mulligan, Linocut
Micheline Gushue, linocut
Eva MacCulley, monoprint

Worldwide Print Day in May Celebration!

May 4, 2024 is a day where Printmakers all over the world celebrate the fine art of printmaking and letterpress through group or individual print related activities which we then share on our social media.

At our monthly Print Circle, EGPS members will be joining in with demos, chat and posting from 1-4pm. What is a Print Circle? PC’s are casual gatherings of EGPS members, friend and anyone interested in sharing resources, and information about fine art printmaking and letterpress, held once a month at EGPS studio, 240 St George Str, 2nd floor, Annapolis Royal. 

There is no agenda or scheduled program except it is a time to come together, show each other what we are creating, whether it is work in progess or finished prints, ask questions or get inspired talking shop

Everyone is welcome from the experienced to the aspiring novice. If you love the smell of ink and don’t mind getting a little messy, you may be a budding printmaker. Why not come by and check us out?

Print Circle Postponed until February 25, 1-3pm

Due to the horrific driving conditions this weekend, we have postponed Our first Print Circle of 2024 until Feburary 25, 1-3pm. What is a Print Circle? PC’s are casual gatherings of EGPS members, friend and anyone interested in sharing resources, and information about fine art printmaking and letterpress, held once a month at EGPS studio, 240 St George Str, 2nd floor, Annapolis Royal. 

There is no agenda or scheduled program except it is a time to come together, show each other what we are creating, whether it is work in progess or finished prints, ask questions or get inspired talking shop

Everyone is welcome from the experienced to the aspiring novice. If you love the smell of ink and don’t mind getting a little messy, you may be a budding printmaker. Why not come by and check us out?

The Count Down Starts Now!

Only two weeks left to buy your tickets for a chance to win these wonderful prizes: Hydrangea pendant, Leaf imprinted pure silver on handmade silk cord by Marianne Brown Jewellery or a carved and painted porcelain lidded Chickadee jar by Deb Kuzyk and Ray Mackie, formerly Lucky Rabbit Pottery.

For tickets, send us a message or drop by the studio Oct 26 & 27, 11am-4pm, 240 St. George Str, 2nd floor, Annapolis Royal. You can also purchased tickets directly from any EGPS member.

Thank you to Marianne, Deb and Ray for their generous support of our printmaking community.

Keep checking back for more events and announcements coming later to mark our 10th year anniversary! Yes we have been a little quiet about it but now we are gearing up to celebrate throughout November through December with Impressed, an exhibit of Members work in November and

… wait for it …

We also launch Earth, the final box set in a four part series of limited edition of original prints by members and guest artists under the theme The Four Elements.

Hydranga silver pendant on silk cord by Marianne Brown
Lidded Chickadee jar by Deb Kuzyk and Ray Mackie