Print Day in May 2018 - Drop-in Lino Print Workshop

WYPW (West Yorkshire Print Workshop) had their annual 'Print Day in May' event on the 5th May this year. This is a international event that any printmaker or print workshop can get involved in. All you need to do is print something on the day. Print Day in May began in 2007 at the Monterey Peninsula College (MPC), Monterey, CA. The MPC Fine Art Print Club (now the MPC Printmakers) created it to encourage printmakers everywhere to create prints on the same day. They even have their own blog so you can post what you have created and show it to the rest of the world. You can find out more in the link below-

https://printdayinmay.com/

To celebrate Print Day in May, WYPW ran a open day event at their workshop. The whole building was buzzing with different print activities and a pop-up cafe with cake in the gallery. As a member, I got involved by running a drop-in lino printing workshop with ready made etched lino blocks. Family's could put a pinny on, ink up some blocks and have a go at using the big imperial press to create their own prints.

WYPW is a registered charity, gaining funding from Art Council England and by running printmaking courses. Open day events help raise donation to improve their facilities and keep the workshop open. From all the activities people got involved in throughout the day, WYPW managed to raise £200!

Thanks to the 'Catalyst: Evolve scheme' funding awarded to them by Art Council England, this has allowed them to double the publics donations to £400! See below to find out more about 'Catalyst: Evolve scheme' and the 'Future Proof' campaign behind the funding-

http://www.wypw.org/blog/future-proof/

This was the first time I ran a drop-in workshop relating to my own work and I couldn't have asked for a better day. Perfect weather, lots of lovely people to meet and of course the cake.

'PRINT' Todmorden, Water Street Gallery

Prints by members of West Yorkshire Print Workshop & Water Street Gallery, Todmorden

3rd May - 10th June 2018

Participating artists include:  Andrew Hambleton, Ben Whittington, Dan Booth, Fabian Osborne, Graham Riding, Helen Campbell, Jenny Thomas, Scarlette Homeshaw, Susan Wright.

Prints by selected members of WYPW and Water Street Gallery, Todmorden.  An exhibition which showcases the possibilities for printmaking to make rich and engaging art works through a variety of printmaking processes, including dry-point, etching, linocut and screenprint. 

Printmaking demo at West Yorkshire Print Workshop

I got the chance to do a demo of my printmaking recently at WYPW (West Yorkshire Print Workshop). Here is a lovely write up by Kate Desforges the technician and course coordinator at the workshop.

“We had another fantastic Printmaker’s Toolkit Session here on Tuesday, this time run by our very own Fabian Matthias Osborne, (or Fabs as we all know him). Fabs has been working at WYPW for the past three years, and during that time has taken his work into the realms of printmaking, in particular lino etching, inspired by his background in ceramics. It was so lovely to see the progression in his work, and the themes of surface, erosion and texture which run through his practice. He describes printmaking as an element which was missing from his work during the time he was at university, and we are so glad that he found it here! Fabs demonstrated how he makes and prints his beautiful etched lino blocks.”

— West Yorkshire Print Workshop