The Sidney Cooper Workshop No 1

To coincide with The Print Block

collaboration with the Sidney Cooper

Contemporary Print Fair we were 

asked if we could provide some 

printing workshops in Canterbury. 

Over 2 days we held 4 workshops 

which proved very popular and we 

had some amazing feedback which 

was lovely. 

These are examples of work by our 

first class. The screen printing

taught by Suki and Karen focused 

on colour transparency & pattern 

making and the monoprinting taught 

by Ruth McDonald introduced them 

to colour, pattern, texture and 

her expertise for mark making.

We would like to thank our brilliant 

and lovely volunteers Teresa and 

Hannah who worked tirelessly 

juggling buckets of water, 

hairdryers and a host of other 

useful things which were invaluable 

in making our workshops run so 

smoothly. Also a big thank you to 

Hazel and Harriet at The Sidney 

Cooper Gallery for being so 

supportive and for giving us the 

opportunity to teach printmaking 

in such a lovely big space!

  

Sidney Cooper Contemporary Print Fair

This year’s Contemporary Print 

Fair at The Sidney Cooper Gallery 

in Canterbury has been partnered 

with The Print Block in Whitstable. 

The exhibition is now open to the 

public and it shows a diverse 

selection of work by artists who 

are using print in a variety of 

media celebrating print in its 

widest form. This is a selection

of some of the work currently on 

show by our editioning artists and 

print block members. There are also 

some beautiful screen printed textiles

by Collier & Campbell curtesy of the

lovely Sarah Campbell. The show is 

beautifully curated and well worth a 

visit....well done Suki!

Oyster Festival Workshop

On Wednesday we closed the studio and 

ran 2 screen printing workshops using 

photographic stencils as part of the 

Oyster Festival activity week. Both 

adults and children explored ink 

transparency and image overlay and 

these are some really brillaint examples

of what they produced in just two and 

a half hours. A lot of happy printers 

leaving our studio today.

The Oyster Festival begins

Luckily for us the Print Block  

studio is perfectly placed on 

the beach where the Landing of 

the Oysters Ceremony marks the 

beginning of the Whitstable 

Oyster Festival. These are some

examples of work produced during 

our week of daily screenprinting 

demos by Suki Hayes Watkins, 

Maria Clemen, Ruth McDonald, 

Robert Clarke, Karen Radford and 

textile artist Oywah Chung. We 

had members print sales throughout 

the week and a beautiful selection 

of screenprints by our editioning 

artist Paul Bommer. 'Print your 
own Pirate flag' was hugely poplar 
and we were inundated with children

keen to try their hand at printing. 
A big thank you to everyone who 
supported us and helped towards  
making this a really great Oyster 
week!

Editioning for Paul Bommer

Bingo Calls! These new prints by 
Paul Bommer were editioned 
by Suki this week.