Liz Neale, Irene Mason 'artists in residence'

Liz and Irene keep on rolling out new colours and experiment with mixing the Akua Intaglio/ relief ink.

Jane Adson's intaglio solarplate

Using an iceblock stick makes it easy to stir the jar of Akua waterbased intaglio ink then place a dob of ink onto the solarplate ready for the squeegee. As the ink does not dry in the air but dries in the paper its printed onto, extra ink can always be scraped off and put back into the jar.

John rolling out the Akua

Here I am rolling out the Akua Ink after first stirring the ink in the jar. I pick up and roll the roller to make a strip of ink of even consistancy. Next I use that full roller and start a new strip of thinner ink on the second piece of plastic. I am looking for an even velvety coating of ink before I roll out on the solarplates.