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…
Tag: David Krut Print Workshop
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…
A Luis Alonzo-Barkigia special at AOM
24.11.15 Blogger & photographer: Jessie Cohen It’s almost Christmas but the pace at AOM is not letting up. Master printer Jillian Ross is back in…
“In this profession, a millimetre matters”: Printing with precision at AOM
It’s another scorching day at AOM and printer Kim-Lee Loggenberg is in the workshop bright and early, ready to roll. This week Kim-Lee is editioning…
Edition; Flatten; Crop; Bop: A merry Monday as work continues at AOM
This week at the DKP workshop, the printers are in the final stages of editioning works by Mischa Fritsch, Mongezi Ncaphayi and Oliver Mayhew. Monday mornings…