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Tom's Yard Screenprint Studio
Screenprint studio now located at Higher Bussow Farm Studios, St. Ives. TR26 3BB. We provide studio facilities and short courses for artists and visitors to Cornwall and also commercial printing assignments for local businesses.
Friday 12 May 2023
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Sunday 11 September 2022
Friday 13 May 2022
Monday 30 November 2020
2020 - the end is nigh...
...And we will be glad to say farewell to 2020.
It has not been a good year; cataract surgery was delayed 4 times but finally one eye was treated in mid-November. It is difficult to screenprint when you cannot see but how staggeringly bright and colourful the world appears after the operation.
While waiting for surgery I managed to damage 3 toes with the lawn-mower. Entirely my own fault and I remain very embarrassed by the incident. Three months later I am still having to attend the wonderful Stennack Surgery every week to change the dressing!
So what it was a lean year for printing. But here are some of the output:
Cards for The St Ives Jazz Club - this is for the amazing SPYRALZ |
New doors, windows and a hanging basket at the Higher Bussow Farm Studio! |
Phase II - screenprint of Susi and Rebecca socially distanced in an almost empty St Ives |
Sunday 1 December 2019
Pack of 10 cards with foraging recipes
Monday 14 October 2019
Tuesday 3 September 2019
Thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition at the Crypt Gallery in St Ives.
A special thank you to those who loved the works enough to take them home.
To share my joy of screenprinting I spent several sessions screenprinting cards during the exhibition.
Tuesday 20 August 2019
Sunday 28 April 2019
That was winter...
Back now at home in St Ives and preparing for an exhibition later this year In the Crypt Gallery, St Ives.
Screenprinting workshops are once again up and running for both experienced, novice and just-fancy-a-go printers. At £10ph it is cheaper than a boat to visit the seals.
Here is the last review
"Graham is clearly passionate about practicing and sharing his knowledge of the screenprinting craft. His printing studio set in a converted stables near St. Ives exemplifies the artist's creative setting. The main "screenprinter" during this activity was a 10-year old boy who had never tried anything similar. Graham was very patient with the novice child screenprinter and guided him during the various, at times messy, stages of the process to the end result - a lovely screenprinted T-shirt based on the child's design. We truly enjoyed learning about and doing screen printing for the first time and would highly recommend this as a novel artistic experience in a unique setting with a very patient and congenial host."
Go on - you know you want to...
Sunday 11 November 2018
Slowly Sloe
Winter is coming and so are the sloes.
I recently added sloes to the foraging series of cards. I think it ended up with eight printings but I may have lost count. Three photo-stencils were used, combined with temporary blocking techniques using a wax based screen filler.(Sorry about the poor photos).
First two colours, pale yellow rectangle over-printed with opaque grey. |
Screen filler was used to further block the grey stencil and over print greens |
Photo-stencil with blocking |
First blue with another photo-stencil |
Darker blue over print using same technique |
Add final black |
Sunday 3 June 2018
Three Cornered Leek
<<< Three Cornered Leek smells and tastes of garlic and is great in salads or cooked.
I picked these on the walk to Higher Bussow Farm Studios and popped them in my coffee cup to take some photos.
Leaving them there for a night or two gave a wonderful fragrance to the studio - if you like garlic.
Thursday 31 May 2018
Three cornered Leek (version 2)
A new version of the three cornered leek card (now called version 1!) is in progress.The first colour down is a blend, with the darker tone at the top of the card this time.
You need to print about a dozen sheets before the ink is sufficiently 'blended' to start the production.
And once printing you cannot add more ink without going through the 'blending' process again.
Blends on the rack |
The second colour this time is opaque white. It says 'super opaque' on the tim but still needed two printings to achieve a clean white against the dark blend tones.
The third colour (fourth printing (2 x white)) is the green for the foliage. The pigment ink is mixed with a base to make it slightly transparent. This means that the darker tones of the blend at the top of the card also darkens the tone of the foliage.
Two more colours to go....
And then the text, including a new recipe.