KICKSTART a creative new year with a different type of screen time with Berkshire Printmakers.
A participant in Berkshire Printmakers workshops shows the result
The Newbury husband-and-wife team finished 2024 with a sellout screen printing workshop at the prestigious Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. They are back in 2025 offering two printing workshops at two local venues.
Print and Sip – A night of tapas, wine and printmaking! – January 24, 6pm to 9pm
They return to Buick Mackane with their popular Print and Sip evening on January 24 from 6-9pm. In the chilled atmosphere of the West Mills offices, the experienced husband-and-wife team will run a laidback screen printing workshop for adults. The couple, Cipriano a practising artist and Sarah an art teacher, will guide you through showing you step by step how you can create your own print, with a wine glass in one hand and a squeegee in the other!
Attendees can try making paper stencils, colour mixing and combining their images with the company’s big bank of patterned screens, to create a print they can take home at the end of the evening.
Sarah Martinez of Berkshire Printmakers says: “We plan to make the evening a wonderful way to relax and unwind after a busy working week and a great way to meet new friends.
“Get artistic and experience a great night out that you’ll be talking about for weeks!”
This fun evening will be interspersed with “fabulous wine and snacks”. For more details and tickets contact Melissa at Buick Mackane melissa@buickmackane. co.uk
Berkshire Printmakers workshops – Beginners screen printing
Five week Silkscreen Printing on Paper Course at The Base from February 27, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
From February 27 the couple will be running a fun, in-depth five-week evening course at The Base Greenham, for beginners and those with previous experience.
They will bring their huge library of plain, patterned screens, squeegees, water based inks and stencil and take you through how to use a squeegee and get good printing results, how to create and print with paper stencils, make multilayered prints using registration marks, create translucent colours and experimental printmaking techniques using charcoal, pastels and working directly on the screen.
No experience is necessary as you will be taken step by step through the process. All materials are included in the cost.
Berkshire Printmakers workshops – Beginners screen printing
Visit https://tinyurl.com/3s5vxktn for booking details.