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, 2^nd 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