October Newsletter

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

Online Open Studio during October

Hi Visitor,

This wet weekend would have normally been our Open Studio, so you could say that it is better that we have gone online this year. Well, it's drier anyway- that is about the the only good thing about it! In the absence of a physical exhibition we hope that you will join us on Instagram to see our virtual open studio exhibition.

Every day for the month of October, there is a new artist to discover, as we’ll be uploading the work of one of our artists a day at a time. In fact we have already started and you can see the posts from the 1st October - I'm just a couple of days late getting this newsletter out!

This is the time of the year when we invite you in to see the work of our really diverse artist members, when we share our love of printmaking with you via courses, demonstrations and lovely conversations in the studio. It has been a hard six months, and the studio and our artists are adapting to a lot of uncertainty going forwards. As always, the work in the exhibition is for sale, and I don't think you will be surprised to hear us ask if you will look at the work and, if you like something, maybe buy one of our lovingly made original prints. In that way you would be supporting both our individual artist members and the studio itself.

To complement the online exhibition, and to keep the conversation going, we have a series of Artists' Talks and some very small, very exclusive and very safely distanced courses. After all of this last six months, we think that it is high time to get our hands dirty again, and we hope you will join us at one of our classes to make your own prints, or via Zoom to find out more about our artists, what inspires them and how they make their work, in our Tuesday evening talk series.

The first talk is on Tuesday 6 October, when member Helen Breach will discuss her work. Starts at 6.30pm, please email if you would like to join in. Claire Willberg and Graham Martin will take to the Zoom stage on subsequent Tuesdays. More information here.

Courses coming up

We have redesigned our courses to make sure that we can distance safely, and our maximum is now three students plus the tutor. Some of our classes have become more expensive as a result, we hope you will enjoy more attention and personal one-to-one and think that the increased cost is worth it.

Our Taster Classes in October are held at pre-covid prices to encourage you to give them a go.

Drypoint Taster

Saturday 10 October 2020, 1.30- 4.30pm

Tutor: Chris Christodoulou

Chris will show you how to achieve a range of rich black and grey tones using drypoint techniques on easily available acrylic plastic sheet..

Etched Lino

Sunday 11 October 2020, 11.00- 4.00pm

Tutor: Sarah Gürsoy- Heuser

Etched lino is a great way to introduce texture to your lino prints. It can look painterly and gestural. Join this one day course to learn how to use different resists to create excitingly varied lino surfaces, experiment and try out various ideas.

Colour Collagraph

Thursday 22 & 29 October, 5 & 12 November 2020, 6.00-9.00pm

Tutor: Rob White

Using carborundum grit and acrylic mediums, you will make two collagraph plates that can be printed together to create a complex multi-layered colour print.

Linocut Taster

Saturday 24 October 2020, 1.30- 4.30pm

Tutor: SooMin Leong

Work with artist SooMin Leong on this three hour printmaking taster course exploring lino printing

Please get in touch if you have any questions about any of our courses. We hope you enjoy our exhibition, and if you do, we would be grateful if you could share and repost to your own contacts.

With best wishes

Michelle and the SLAUGHTERHAUS team.

PS: I wanted to say a big thank you to Anders Gramer, studio member and professional photographer who photographed all the work for our virtual exhibition.

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October Newsletter

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

Online Open Studio during October