Hannah Tilson

Personal Patterns

15–27 August 2022

Media
Etching (including aquatint, sugar lift and chine colle), mono-print, lino, drawing, collage.

Location
Hohensalzburg Fortress

Teaching language
English

What to bring
Materials and images/drawings to work from, sketchbook, preferred drawing utensils, a personal pattern (see more info in the class description), camera to document process/work (if available, you can use your phone camera too), working clothes

Requirements
You must be willing to work in a group situation and be ready to experiment with your printmaking!

Maximum number of participants
15

Teaching assistant
Otis Blease

Participation fee
€ 640.– (reduced € 480.–)

We will start the course by looking and drawing from Japanese woodblocks, paying special attention to their rhythmic geometric compositions and the flowing patterned kimonos and forms within the prints. In doing this, we will be thinking about how these works influenced artists like Félix Vallotton and Van Gogh, and how, in the present day, artists such as Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Jessie Makinson have used patterns in their work to fully encompass the body and reflect culture.

As a student, you are asked to bring a drawing or a pattern that means something to you personally. It could be a pattern or print from the culture you grew up in or in which you find yourself now. Or it could just be a pattern that you like or that represents how you feel. It might well be that you discover this pattern during your time with us.

We will be working in a hands-on, energetic team environment, with regular group discussions as well as one-on-one learning. Through an experimental approach to printmaking, with the added elements of drawing and collage, we will learn new techniques while exploring the figure and its relationship to pattern.