Artist's Books – Printmaking
Our time travel draws to an end, we have arrived at our destination: the here & now, the year 2024. Many a situation cannot be pinned to one particular year anymore. In the early days master lithographer and colleague Hans Ulrich passed on a type case to me containing Garamond. It had been saved from a place that had been …
There is a basic difference in the nature of the artist‘s book and the product of a publishing house. The product of the publisher will present a text, there might be an introduction, a commentary, a preface, an epilogue. The artist‘s book differs from that fundamentally. It is born from an idea. This is the seed from which the concept …
The barn next to the printmaking studio in Oppenwehe will turn itself into this bespoke gallery space again and art work from the past 25 years of printmaking will be on show: woodcuts, linoprints, broadsheets and artist‘s books. The historic printing press will be ready for printing and all visitors can have a go at inking and printing, getting a …
Ever heard of Archaea? Archaea are single-celled organisms. They do not have a nucleus, their DNA kind of floats in their cells without being enclosed within a membrane. They might be the most ancient form of life on planet earth, or carry some very ancient traits in them, for that matter. If the process of copying DNA had ever worked …
Save the date! 9. Biennale Buchkunst Weimar will be held from 6-8 December 2024 in Seminargebäude in Congresscentrum Neue Weimarhalle in Weimar Good old Shakespeare will be in wraps again (because it is winter), but all the lovely books and prints will be on show! And The Fork and Broom Press will have its new art work on the table. …
In the years of my childhood and youth I just loved trains. When I was little we lived in Aachen and I insisted to go and see the steam trains. On Sundays we‘d head for the station and watch the powerful locomotives do their work, reversing out – it was a terminal station. When I was 5, I asked Santa …
The season of events in the barn draws to an end. The historic press will need to get ready for hibernation. Dates and times for the „End-of-Season-Gallery in Barn“are set: The „Gallery in Barn“ will be open this autumn as follows Saturday 21 October 1pm to 6pm Sunday 22 October 11 am to 5pm Visitors can expect two new volumes …
„Culture Weeks“ are returning to LandArt-Route 5 for the second time after in 2019 having coincided with my studio‘s 20th anniversary when we had readings in our lovely old barn. This year the event will be from 1 to 16 July giving artists and arts&crafts workshops opportunity to showcase their works, offer workshops or house events like poetry slams, readings …
You can now find a digitized version of the original linoprint for the millprint challenge below for download. This is to give all those of you, who could not come to pull their personal print during the Wayzgoose, the opportunity to take part and create their own contribution. This need not be a digital version, the file will allow to …
Wayzgoose with pop-up gallery in the old barnThursday 25 to Saturday 27 August open 3pm to 7pmSunday 28 August open 11am to 4pm There will be the Fork-and-Broom-Mill-Print-Challenge open to all on all four days during opening hours. Find more about this in the respective post in the category “Printmaker’s Day”
