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Block Printing with Louisa Loakes
April 20 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Dates: Sat 20 April, 11am – 4pm
Tutor: Louisa Loakes
Fee: £95
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Enjoy a day with Louisa Loakes who will introduce you to the world of block printing.
First you will begin by looking at examples of Indian block printed fabrics from her own personal collection and explore artists and designers who have helped to influence Louisa’s practice and technique.
Together you will go through each stage of the block printing process. You will have the chance to carve your own linoleum block design, which you will use to explore and develop your own pattern repeat. You will have a chance to twist and turn the block to play with your repeat before finally printing. This workshop provides a creative approach to pattern.
You will come away from this session with knowledge of the fabrics and inks involved in the block printing process and a length of your very own hand block printed design onto a natural linen fabric.
All materials included.
Suitable for beginners, everyone welcome.
Your Tutor
Louisa Loakes
Louisa’s work blends elements from her fine art practice and her intuitive approach to textiles. During her time studying at Wimbledon School of Art, Louisa developed a particular interest in Abstract painting, which continues to ground and guide her work across a range of mediums.
Working from her studio in Peckham, Louisa’s practice is focused on the beautifully simple, slow art of hand-carved block printing. Having spent many years researching the craft, she draws particular inspiration from the processes involved in traditional Indian block printing, and her practice interweaves Eastern folk art traditions with forms and patterns familiar to western languages of abstraction. As a self-taught block printer, she approaches fabric like a painting – or one of her charcoal drawings – creating delicate, twisting patterns that repeat themselves across its surface. Distinctive in their simple use of geometric form, monochromatic palette and signature dash of hand-painted colour, Louisa’s hand-carved block printed patterns are charged with a human touch, the irregularities that appear in the printing process giving each piece a distinct energy and identity.
Louisa hosts block printing workshops around the country, past workshops have included Burberry Makers House, The New Craftsmen, Charleston House & gardens, Blyth Gallery / Imperial College London, South London Gallery, TOAST, Peckham Craft Show, Selvedge Magazine, Museum of Arts & Crafts Ditchling, SOHO House, Daylesford Organic Farm and Dulwich Picture Gallery.