Capturing Natural Forms with Screenprinting

This one-day course introduces the basic principles of both capturing natural forms and screenprinting. You will learn the basics of screen printing onto paper and produce your own screen prints and how to transfer a natural materials such as leaves, petals, flowers onto a screen, register and print onto paper to produce a colour screen print of your own composition. This one-day course is ideal for beginners, who are interested in nature.

You will cover:

• how to produce a nature inspired screen print
• how to prep your screen with emulsion
• how to expose and develop natural materials (leaves, flowers, petals)
• how to print your image onto paper
• basic troubleshooting

Course Structure

10:00 Introduction to the workshop + Health and Safety.
10:20 Introduction to the course. Covering the principles of the process and examples.
11.00 Coating screens and exposing images.
12:00 LUNCH BREAK
13:00 Printing image with registration demonstration.
15:30 Clean up and evaluation

About the Tutor

Augusta Philippou studied textiles at Loughborough University (BA) and Nottingham Trent (MA) and specialises in multi-media print an embroidery. She works as both a commercial print and a high-end fashion textiles designer, currently working as a freelancer for Alexander McQueen.

Based in the Midlands, she works as a freelance print tutor for Leicester Print Workshop and a textiles tutor for Loughborough University ‘Textiles Innovation and Design’ BA course. She has also facilitated textiles workshops for people living with Alzheimer’s; observing whether textiles processes and textiles workshops can improve well-being and in an audience.

Her work explores memory, using visual references like stains, imperfections and holes to develop prints. Work also takes inspiration from the natural process of aging, examining the way a surface will alter over time; becoming bleached, weathered and worn away. Textures, like memories, change overtime. Ultimately, she is fascinated by the way that memory can become embedded into the fibres of materials, and her work looks at ways of visualising this concept.

Website: https://www.augustaphilippou.co.uk (https://www.augustaphilippou.co.uk/)

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