Category Archives: courses

Screenprinting at Impress

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Nancy

A weekend at Impress Printmakers studio. I was tutoring a two day studio session in Screenprinting for an experienced group of artists. Impress Printmakers studio at Kedron is a beautiful working space with high ceilings, flooded with natural light. The … Continue reading →

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Emerald

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Nancy

I visited Emerald, one of my favourite outback towns, for a Flying Arts tour. Emerald is a historic town. It has a grand Queenslander style railway station and a welcoming botanical garden, popular with travellers. I flew in on a … Continue reading →

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Toowoomba Artist books and etching

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Nancy

Another visit to The Glennie school, for some workshops on etching and Artist books. Through the rose gardens to the new art rooms. which overlook the sporting green with a view back to the historic town. Being at Glennie is … Continue reading →

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Prints from Plants at Northey St City Farm

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Nancy

I love Northey St City farm, and enjoyed facilitating this workshop where we created prints from the plants in the garden on t shirts, sarongs, scarves and bags. Some photos from a Prints from Plants workshop one of their … Continue reading →

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Summer School

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Nancy

Some photos from summer school weekend courses at Brisbane Insitute of Art: T shirt printing and Fabric printing:

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T shirt printing course

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Nancy

https://nancybrownstudio.wordpress.com/courses/ This weekend (16th and 17th January 2016) I am running a course that is great fun, very creative, and is full of information. It’s a T shirt printing course at Brisbane Institute of Art. I often print my … Continue reading →

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Impress

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Nancy

Some photos from the Advanced Etching weekend workshop at Impress Studio. http://www.impress.org.au/. We began the images with sugar lift technique. Everyone printed a two plate etching, and made image transfers on aluminium plates. Whenever I tutor I learn more about … Continue reading →

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Alchemy and pattern around the Hills

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Nancy

On my line from today’s workshop, Shibori folded, clamped twisted and sewn. I found some triangles, circles and squares to clamp onto the cloth at Reverse Garbage, http://www.reversegarbage.com.au/ We created some very geometric pieces of indigo dyed cloth, with the … Continue reading →

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Pressing question

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Nancy

Can you print etchings on a clay press? I was invited to run a drypoint etching workshop at a school that didn’t have an etching press, and so the journey of discovery began. It was a two day Flying Arts … Continue reading →

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Woodford unmasked

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Nancy

Another Woodford Folk Festival, and 2015 began with fire ceremony, music and the arts. Woodford’ visiting artist this year was Wang Wen Chih from Taiwan who with a team of 30 people created the nest like bamboo entranceways to the … Continue reading →

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