12.07.16 Blogger: Jessie Cohen Finally, we have the pleasure of hosting visual artist Jacob van Schalkwyk in our workshop. The collaboration has been five years in…
Tag: David Krut Print Workshop
RISD Interns get stuck in at DKW: Winter 2016
04/07/16 For the second time since winter 2015, David Krut Workshop (DKW) welcome two interns from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to our dynamic collaborative printing…
Cracking the puzzle: Matthew Hindley returns to DKW to make an ambitious etching series
Blogger: Jessie Cohen 20.06.16 Recently, Cape Town-based contemporary artist Matthew Hindley returned to David Krut Workshop (DKW) to develop an ambitious etching series. Hindley didn’t waste any…
Nearing the finish line: Robyn Penn on her latest cloud prints
This week, Robyn Penn came to DKW to continue developing her mezzotints, which are set to feature in her exhibition at DKP Parkwood next month. Two small…
The making of “Mantegna” – DKW collaboration with William Kentridge
By Jessie Cohen 21.04.16 To coincide with the hotly anticipated opening of Triumphs and Laments – a 550m frieze on Rome’s Tiber embankment by William Kentridge –…
Destruction/Construction: “Main and Kruger” etching series by Stephen Hobbs
Main and Kruger I-V Hardground etching series 2014-2015 Stephen Hobbs “These prints are my fantasizing about the aesthetics of grids and order” – Stephen Hobbs…
Explosive Beauty & Beautiful Explosions: Matthew Hindley makes watercolour monotypes at David Krut Workshop, AOM
Blogger: Jessie Cohen When artist Matthew Hindley came to our printing workshop to make a series of watercolour monotypes, he had not made a print in…
Robyn Penn makes an epic cloud print
Blogger: Jessie Cohen 01/02/16 “I find clouds a sublime metaphor for the transience of the moment, and, in the spirit of the Romantics, they are…
Abstract artist Luis Alonzo-Barkigia battles with the elements to make watercolour monotypes in the wild
17.12.15 Blogger: Jessie Cohen Mexican born mixed media artist Luis Alonzo-Barkigia returned to Arts on Main (AOM) last week to finalize a set of watercolour monotypes which he made on…
Architectural Printmaking with Lorenzo Nassimbeni
Blogger: Jessie Cohen 10.10.15 On entering the AOM workshop, architect-come-fine-artist Lorenzo Nassimbeni is already in work mode, pacing with a mug and a pen while…
Up-and-coming artist Keneilwe Mokoena visits AOM 2015-12
08.12.15 Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming young up-and-coming artist, Keneilwe Mokoena, to the workshop to carve some test plates. Mokoena is from…
AOM: Control is the word
Activities (and weather conditions) are heating up at AOM before we shut our doors for 2015. The team multi-task in order to complete their projects…