Showing posts with label printmaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label printmaking. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 10
This blog is moving house!
Our blog is moving to it's new home. We've been busy busy busy and we've just launched our new website. We're happy with it, and although there will be some inevitable tweaking, it's so nice have all of our pages and galleries and information in one place - finally! Our letterpress studio, tucked up high in the hills of Northern NSW is purring away each day, creating hand-made objects and products of beauty and use. This really is the main focus of our work place, making beautiful things that have a place in each and every home, things of usefulness and pleasure. As well as printing custom design jobs, we produce a range of hand-printed and assembled letterpress products such as notebooks and gift cards. Our new range of notebooks are coming together this week, they are inspired by the hues of Japan and it's breathtaking textiles; it's exciting watching every aspect of their design materialising before us. We hand-print our gift cards also, and one by one our designs are rolling of the press and into our online stores and bricks and mortar stockists. I can't tell you how great it is to be creating everyday and doing precisely what we love.
So from this moment on, all of our blog posts will be published directly from our new website. It's the spot to visit if you're curious about who we are, where we are and what we do. We'll be posting about our most recent print jobs, our inspiring clients and the business of making (or trying to make) a living from a creative life. We will bring you links to people who inspire us in our everyday creative practices, artists who blow our minds, designers who we admire, friends who are toiling away at their own beautiful creative lives and some fine sites and blogs to visit.
We would love you to visit our new online "home" where you can explore our work, find links to our stores and stockists or find info about up and coming workshops. If you do visit be sure to say hi, you can leave a comment on the blog or drop us a note via the contacts page. We'd love to hear from you.
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Monday, February 4
Time to get back to work! I'm so excited to be moving into a new studio this week. Our beautiful Heidelberg press resides at our home in the hills, but all of the drawing, printing and ideas work will now be happening in the Murwillumbah studio. The best part of being in the town studio this year will be the people I'm surrounded by; all unique mentors in their own way and all marvellously inspiring and endlessly creative. I can't wait to see what work comes from all of this positive energy. Is your studio a ball of electric energy or are you the country mouse motivated by solitude and peace?
Tuesday, August 28
DIG IT!
ooooh DIG is coming....yes the newest workshop and I'm so excited about getting gritty with ochres, rusted paper, stitching, spuds, hessian sacks, it will be just like my childhood, bandicooting in the spud paddocks (yes I actually did grow up among swarthy spud farmers!) book a spot at the Print + Paper + Book store and spend a beautiful day making tunnel books. Did I mention that it's at the Blue Knob Hall at the lovely Lillian Rock in Northern NSW, AND they have the best little cafe with big pots of Chai and hearty meals...can't wait!
Sunday, July 1
Fire + Book + Bind Workshop
The best thing to hear from someone who does one of our workshops (I work with the super talented Heather Matthew) is that it was the "best day I've had in so long" or that "I never give myself the opportunity to be creative and I love it". The thing about creating is that it is so good for the soul, it gets you in touch with your "humaness" (if that is infact a word!), it is one of those activities that helps us find our voice, be still for a while, think it through and make something to be proud of. We all love to learn and that little welling of pride that comes from success in print form, or book form is precious and to be treasured. We feel alive when we make and that is something to do and do often.
xoxoxo
Thursday, March 29
Monday, January 30
Print + Paper + Book Workshop
Teaming up with the inspirational writer and artist Heather Matthew for a two day workshop. Plunge your hands into pulpy paper joy, pull some awesome prints and wrap it all up into a neat little book, hand-bound by YOU!
All happening at Lisa Gair's Studio 9 in the beautiful, no stunning, little village of Uki, Northern NSW, Australia!
contact jo for more details or to make a booking at joolive@bigpond.com.
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