Tidied up and ready for my visitors.
Well what a fantastic weekend, opening up my studio to visitors! I have met some lovely people and really enjoyed talking about my work and demonstrating simple printmaking techniques. It was exhausting but definately worth it! Thanks so much to all who came to see me. x
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Samantha Groom. Printmaker.
All sewn up!
Hooray! My first lavender bag is made and I only had to unpick it once!
I LOVE collage
I have always enjoyed making collages, using prints that haven’t worked to create anything from real or imagined landscapes and animals to simple abstract compositions. The shapes and marks in the discarded print to suggest to me how the collage should look . At the moment I’m experimenting with collaging printed fabrics together, using sewing rather than glue.
I have been considering ways of including words into my work for a while now. Recently a friend pointed me towards this blog http://blogdelanine.blogspot.com/ and I was very excited to see the tutorial on hand carved stamps. I immediately set to work carving letters into ordinary white erasers which I cut into 2 cm square sections. Once I had drawn out the letter shapes, (back to front of course!) I set about cutting into them with my lino cutting tools. It took some practice as the letters are small and it’s tricky getting into the narrow parts of each letter, but I managed it and I am now busy printing letters onto fabric with my rather runny fabric printing ink.
Hmmm, I think I’m going to make some lavender bags!
Hello again, sorry it’s been so long!
I plan to add lots more images to the website over the next few days. To begin, here is a wood and lino cut print I have done recently. I printed onto Bockingford watercolour paper (300gms) using water based printing ink in the first image and I printed onto the T-shirt using fabric printing ink.
As well as T-shirts, I have been printing designs onto organic canvas bags. I printed my ‘Tree in Blossom’ print onto a bag as a Christmas present for my sister.
I’ll be back in the next day or so with some more work, see you soon!
Some more recent work…
I keep all the woodblock prints that don’t quite work and use them to make collages. Here is one of a bluebird. I have made a lino-cut based on this and printed it onto cardboard. I am thinking of making sets of three in different colours to hang on the wall.
I have also been experimenting with fabric printing ink. Not easy! The ink is really runny and slippery and nothing like ordinary block printing ink. It takes quite a lot of practice and many mistakes. Anyway I am quite pleased with these woodblock prints onto cloth. I plan to print another colour onto the flower and perhaps the cat, although I quite like him just like this!
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