Feilding Rangers and Girl Guides

The Feilding Guides and Rangers Group along with 3 of their Leaders spend one and a half hours making a book and then printing some 'clip art' from the Museum collection of homeprint.
Girls sort through the blocks to find one they like to add to their 'clip art' page.

Feilding Rangers and Girl Guides

John demonstrates the laying on of the paper to avoid smudging.

Feilding Rangers and Girl Guides

Pick up and roll the roller across the picture blocks to achieve an even inking.

Feilding Rangers and Girl Guides

Push the power lever down.

Feilding Rangers and Girl Guides

Feilding Rangers and Girl Guides

Here is my print.

John Brebner - painter

Acrylic painting of the 'sunlight peep' series. This one is 'Sunlight peep over sea'

John Brebner - painter

The 'sunlight peep' is an acrylic painting as part of a series produced in 1984.

Chris Pollard - artist

Paper cut and drawn ink line by Chris Pollard. Back Beach from the car park.

Chris Pollard - artist

Chris has cut paper and drawn a line to create this lasting image of 'Back beach' New Plymouth. (from the beach)

Kerry Larkin. Artist.

Biro drawing of 'Girl with the pearl earing' by Kerry.

Kerry Larkin - artist

Stunning biro drawing from an old master.

Devils Cup 1 kg beans

These freshly roasted beans have been produced by Kev Murrow from Patea. While Michaela returned 14 borrowed prints from an exhibition in Eltham, Kev showed me some of the techniques on my stove top to brew a great cup of coffee. I can smell it now!

John and Allison Brebner - Halletts Bay print

The 'Halletts Bay' print is a combination of MDF cut on a jig saw, letterpress wood type and lead type and blind embossing.

Brebner Cottage - snow!

Snow fell at the Brebner Cottage on the decking and solar heated pool.

Devil's Cup - Fair trade Coffee

Kev Murrow and his partner Michaela Stoneman ( South Taranaki Arts Co-ordinator) make a cup of 'Devils Cup' in the Brebner Cottage before heading off to Australia for a holiday.

Chrystall Rata - Artist

Chrystall has set a selection of woodtype from the Homeprint collection and printed onto flax paper made by Andrew Reilly. (Tenax)

Kerry Larkin. Artist.

A close up of the 'woman' biro drawing mural.

Kerry Larkin. Artist.

Kerry is looking down on his latest mural, biro drawing on paper, as yet unfinished with a plan to draw at least one more full row of panels.

The Village Gallery - Bookbinding Workshop

The first stage in the bookbinding process is to fold your paper. We used Eden Grove,white, 90 gsm, A2 sheet. It was very nice to work with and had a laid pattern and a watermark.
Michaela Stoneman had worked very hard to organise this successful workshop in conjunction with an 'Impressions' a fine exhibition of contemporary printmaking.
I was impressed with the enthusiasm and skill of the 9 participants.

The Village Gallery - Bookbinding Workshop

Folding paper. We used plastic, beef bone or bamboo (bone folders) the bamboo folders were popular!

The Village Gallery - Bookbinding Workshop

Preparing bookcloth to fit the boards.

The Village Gallery - Bookbinding Workshop

Gluing the end paper ready to press onto the case.

The Village Gallery - Bookbinding Workshop

The sections are positioned on the case.

The Village Gallery - Bookbinding Workshop

The sections are glued into the hard case.

Gary Whiting - inkjet print

Pukeho copy 2

Sue Pearson

Kingfisher lino print by Sue Pearson. 2011.

Marty Vreede artist / printmaker / engineer

Bedoni, 96 point, with lead packing 'John Brebner' cast in the Ludlow.

Marty Vreede artist / printmaker / engineer

The stick is turned over to show the brass mats with the letters showing. This is where the molten lead is forced into this space to form the letters as part of the slug.

Marty Vreede artist / printmaker / engineer

Marty shows me how the pot reamer is fitted into place. It sits on the molten metal and controls the pressure into the mat.