Block Printing in Rajasthan

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Nancy

Travelling with sketchbook in Rajasthan

Interesting to encounter traditional block printing after years of making blocks in my own way.

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Flying Arts tour Moranbah

Posted on August 13, 2023 by Nancy

Some photos from Flying Arts tour to Moranbah to facilitate a mixed media and printmaking workshop responding to ‘Reframe’ a Flying Arts touring exhibition

Flying Arts workshop Moranbah 2023
Flying Arts Moranbah 2023
Gel plate printing workshop Moranbah 2023
Flying Arts workshop gallery visit ‘ Reframe’ Moranbah 2023
Artwork and poetry by Audrey Flying Arts Moranbah 2023
Gel plate, Chine colle and block printing Flying Arts workshop Moranbah 2023
Workshop photo Flying Arts

Moranbah 2023 Nancy Brown
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Textile workshops

Posted on June 16, 2023 by Nancy

Photos from a 9 week set of textile printing with Flying arts which covered screenprinting, block printing, hand painting and photoemulsion screens.

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Woodford Festival 22 23

Posted on January 3, 2023 by Nancy

Glad the festival was back on, although all bar one of our group went home sick c’est la vie!

We managed to run few great workshops in the pouring rain before we left though.

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Learning again

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Nancy
Berries from my garden- Mulberry , Cranberry Hibiscus, Strawberry, Native Raspberry and Panama berry leaves printed with a tannin background on Calico.

Exploring some techniques that are both old and new to me. Back to tin tack basics with mordants. I usually make my own mordants from rusty objects, but am trying some more refined mordants for different darker results. I’m learning to print with these natural dyes on cotton and linen which allows me to transform all manner of secondhand items. The flooding of the work studio at BIA and is a new beginning of more considered choices. Still doing the mud clean up there, many hands make good friends, and strangely fresh atmosphere. Sad that so many prints and books were lost. Still rescuing throw outs from the street! An artists treasures and tools are a strange hodgepodge indeed.

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Woodford Bushtime festival

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Nancy

Woodford festival marks the old and new year for me, and the Bushtime festival was a magical small festival that seemed to distill the best of the other festivals, Science talks and walks, nights under the stars, busy creative sessions with the Woodford children cabaret and folk music. Best of all are the wonderful folk who belong to Woodford and create the festival each year, who hold a silence for the old year, and greet the new year sunrise with chanting on the hill

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Young women’s project 2021

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Nancy

Some photos from a project for Zig Zag young women’s art group. Sessions in screenprinting, expressive printmaking, jewellery making, pinch pot ceramics, sculptural casting, artist books and more. I really enjoyed facilitating these sessions where friendships grew as art was being created.

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New courses enrolling at Brisbane Institute of Art

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Nancy

https://brisart.org/

Winter timetable 2021 is out and the courses for second semester are now enrolling. Brisbane Institute of Art has exhibitions in the Metcalfe gallery. Open studio spaces have a well lit and spacious ambience. Classes are for beginner through to advanced students.
Two photos, one from Glen Skien’s book to print course which I have been studying this semester, the other a photo of the display from the fabric printing semester class that I tutor.

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Autumn short courses at Brisbane Institute of Art.

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Nancy

Autumn is a great time to learn new skills or return to creative interests, and there are some exciting offerings the program at Brisbane Institute of Art.
https://brisart.org/courses/short-courses/short-courses-timetable
I am offering a short course in printmaking with water based mediums on May 29th and 30th https://brisart.org/courses/short-courses/water-based-media-in-printmaking-detail

I’m also offering Indigo and plant dyeing https://brisart.org/courses/short-courses/indigo-plant-dyes-on-textiles-detail

cost is $345 for the 2 day courses.

  • Pole wrapped scarves Brisbane Institute of Art
  • Indigo dyed scarves Workshop
  • indigo dyed scarves Brisbane Institute of Art
  • Leaf prints on Calico Indigiscapes
  • Leaf prints on silk Indigiscapes
  • Nancy Brown screenprint
  • Printmaking stencils
Nancy Brown Printmaking
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How art follows life, then life follows art.

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Nancy

I’m back in my studio, and have planted the garden with vegetables and fruit in pots to tempt and inspire me, as they crawl along the footpath and driveway, over fences and offer up their daily pickings. the shapes intrigue me, their interactions form conversations with each other and the animals that live among them. Entwining their lives with mine, I am intrigued that these plants have followed humans around for millennium, thriving on our ash and waste, while feeding us. In monoculture, we miss this dynamic, and it seems like missing the point of our place in time, space and collective memory.

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