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.
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
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?
is a pretty popular question these days. It is February in eastern Canada and the snow banks are over our heads. Despite all that nature has throw at us, EGPC is staying toasty and busy.
Three new members joined in January bringing core membership up to 11. With an assorted range of experience and interests, it is going to be curious what 2015 brings in way of workshops and projects. Already we have been experimenting with copper sulphate etching on zinc and had a visit from letterpress artist, Laura MacDonald of Deep Hollow Print. She began her career using a Nolan Press similar to the one in the shop. Tentative plans are in the making for a workshop with Laura. Time to get serious about using our letterpress equipment.
After the success of 2014 Box set Fire fundraiser. (we sold out at 25 sets) we installed an air filter system in the studio improving air quality. EGPC is committed to being as green and replacing traditionally used solvents with lower toxic substitutes whenever possible.
Our next planned event is a Spring Open House for the public in April. Something to look forward to…
Love Under Pressure – a Valentine’s Day card making day!
Sunday, February, 2nd 10am-4pm
In this day long workshop participants will be introduced to basic linocutting techniques, carve a small block and then print either by hand pulling or by press. Each participant will come away with four cards and a carved block that can be reused to print more cards or artwork
Cost: $35 which includes all materials. This workshop is limited to six participants.
Our Valentine’s Day card making workshop is full but you can still get on the waiting list.
email elephantgrassprint@gmail.com to subscribe to our advance notice email lists!
*A ‘snowdate’ has been set for February the 9th in case of inclement weather.
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