Ref: SLW35959
This course takes the plants and flowers of the magnificent West Dean gardens as inspiration. After getting familiar with the stencil cutting and stencil printing techniques that we will use, we will go outside and spend some hours sketching, getting ideas on paper of plants or flowers that we will use as inspiration for prints.
We will then study the multiple ways to transform a sketch into a layered design that can be stencil printed. Depending on your style, taste and level of experience your designs may be simple (maybe inspired by Scandinavian printing styles) or much more detailed. You will be able to make beautiful prints regardless of your sketching and printing experience.
The second part of the workshop will be spent in printing the designs on fabric to take home with you, to turn into a cushion of a small wall hanging or anything else you would like.
Going home from this course you will have a skill that you will be able to continue practicing at home at your kitchen table. The supplies that you will need are quite simple and you get to take the brushes with you that you have used during the course, as well as a supply list to use going forward.
The course is suitable for complete beginners and can also be taken by artists and designers who want to learn a new skill and anyone in between.
All materials will be supplied for use on the course including 1 metre of cotton calico, 1/2 metre of natural linen, printing inks, paste and stencil printing brushes. to take home
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Wear appropriate clothing/aprons for the workshop or studio, this includes stout covered footwear i.e. no open-toes or sandals. Safety boots, if specified.
Arrival Day - this is the first date listed above
Courses start early evening. Residential students to arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm.
6.45pm: Welcome, followed by dinner (included).
8 - 9pm: First teaching session, attendance is essential.
Daily timetable
Classes 9.15 - 5pm, lunch is included.
From 6.30pm: Dinner (included for residential students).
Evening working - students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with their tutor's permission and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.
Last day
Classes 9.15am - 3pm, lunch is included.
Residential students are to vacate their rooms by 10am please.
(This timetable is for courses of more than one day in length. The tutor may make slight variations)
Pauline Greuell is a self-taught fabric printer, surface pattern designer and teacher. She has developed her own techniques in stencil printing and has been teaching them over the past few years, working with Selvedge Magazine as well as with other partners and on Zoom. Her designs are being licensed for interior design fabrics in the UK.
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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