I’m proud to announce that my Printmaking Master Classes videos are now online and ready to download. We’re launching with five videos and there are more coming. Every time we start planning a new one we get ideas for two more. I’ve worked in my studio with a lot of artists from different parts of the world and have a pretty clear idea of what they need both in technical and motivational terms, and I have tried to address these needs in my videos.

So, here you have access to five brief previews. Please have a look and see if you think I’ve succeeded.

• Solar Plate Video Preview

• Traditional Printmaking Video Preview

• Liquid Metal Video Preview

• Creative Printing Video Preview

• Making a Chop Video Preview

Isabel Fallow
The first one to visit was Isabel Fallow, accompanied by her husband, Jack, a professional communicator and mediator (in the peacemaking sense of the word) who dedicated his time to reading, relaxing and resolving world issues with my husband, Mike, while Isabel and I worked together in the studio.

Isabel, like all the others, found my studio on Internet (I’m not sure where as Mike has put me all over the place…) She’s a painter and printmaker from Buckinghamshire in the U.K. Her work is bold with a distinctive personal touch, and her drawings lent themselves nicely to the creation of solar-plate prints. She was delighted with the results and is
already talking about coming back for more, perhaps with a few artist friends.

Beatriz Taillefer & Eduardo

Beatriz and Eduardo are, respectively, an established painter and a professional photographer from Málaga on the southern Mediterranean coast of Spain. Both were fascinated with the solar-plate techniques, and anxious to apply them to their work, each in their own way. Beatriz, who is doing a lot of portrait commissions lately, was anxious
to change techniques for a while, so she spent some time working on her favorite subject, flowers, which she does beautifully.

Eduardo’s prints, based on his photographs expertly manipulated in PhotoShop, surprised me with their artful qualities. Who said you can’t make real art with a computer? Artistic creation aside, Beatriz and Eduardo discovered that the bar just down the road served free tapas with the drinks and became loyal regulars there evenings.

Janet Stahle-Fraser

Janet arrived in early June, along with her husband, Dave, from their cabin “in the bush” somewhere north of Toronto. In the two weeks she spent in my studio Janet touched some of the most interesting techniques: solar plate, carborundum, liquid metal, chine collé and some experimental printing. She was delighted to go home with a big
bundle of plates and prints under her arm, which she will be showing this summer in her Tapawingo Studio in Baysville, Ontario.

Dave, whom Mike refers to as his “Canadian expert,” got stuck into what was supposed to be a minor building project with Mike but wound up being two days of hard-rock mining, as the walls of our house are of stone almost two feet thick!

The result was the hanging of this antique plant holder which they found in a second-hand lot, thinking it was “a bargain.”

Note: There are still some available spaces in my calendar of summer workshops, both for the courses and the Gallinero. But you need to write me soon, or phone (+34 658 953399) before they are spoken for.

Links to my other sites on the web:

• Maureen Booth, my main site
• World Printmakers
• Pomegranate Editions on Print Workshop Central
• Printmaking Courses in Spain
• El Gallinero, my new artists’ residence
  

Welcome to Granada, one of Europe’s most breathtaking monumental cities, an obligatory stop on everyone’s Spanish itinerary. A visit to the Alhambra Moorish fortress and palace will not disappoint you. Nor will its  beautiful Generalife Gardens. But for those of you who love art and like to get on the inside of the places you travel to, Granada has more to offer. Why not include a visit to the studio of an outstanding artist who has worked in Granada for almost 40 years?

You Are Invited to Share a Glass of Champagne with the Artist

The Anglo-Spanish painter and printmaker, Maureen Booth, invites you to make an appointment to visit her studio, share a glass  of champagne and some light refreshment (in Spanish “tapas”), chat with the artist and see her latest paintings and prints.  Small groups of up to six persons are welcomed. Maureen’s studio is just 15 minutes outside of the city in a bucolic setting at the edge of a village in the Sierra Nevada foothills. In springtime you can hear the nightingales sing day and night in the willows along the River Genil just below. If you see a painting or print you would like to have, you can purchase it from the artist herself. You will be picked up at your hotel and driven to and from the studio.

Click to See This Video Interview with Maureen

Here’s a recent interview with Maureen in which she discusses her work and her life in Granada over the past 40 years:

It’s Easy to Make a Reservation

Booking a visit to Maureen’s studio is as easy as making a phone call. Just dial 658 953399 and you will speak personally with Maureen herself. It’s as simple as that. Reservations are usually made at least a day in advance, but there are sometimes visits available on the same day.