MAKE 2020 Contemporary Crafts for Christmas

During this month's lockdown it was nice to receive some good news... MAKE 2020 Contemporary Crafts for Christmas was installed and photographs were already on the Devon Guild website. It had taken me a lot of time and effort to get everything ready for the exhibition including three new screen prints. I had only just posted a big box of framed prints to Devon when the second lockdown was announced. It was such a disappointment to think the prints might not get seen. So it was great to see photographs and films of the exhibition shared online. Thank you to staff at the Devon Guild for working so hard to showcase the work of 50 exhibitors even in lockdown! Hopefully the exhibition will open from the 2nd of December (tbc) 2020 until the 10th of January 2021. Meanwhile you can see photographs of the exhibition on the Devon Guild website; https://www.crafts.org.uk/all-exhibitions/make-2020

 

Angels & Folk Birds for Folka

Making angel and folk bird decorations has been keeping me busy lately! The angels are screen printed in bronze and teal on kraft recycled card. Each angel is made of three screen printed sheets of card so I need to print sixty angels just to make twenty finished decorations. Once the ink is dry the prints are folded down the middle, glued together and then every angel is cut out by hand. It's alot of work but after years of practice it gets easier and I can make about twenty angels in eight hours! Recently I've also been printing gold and green angels aswell as more folk birds. The birds are made from one sheet of kraft card screen printed in blue and metallic green on one side and then metallic green on the other side. As soon as the ink is dry they're glued together, cut out by hand & threaded ready to hang.

These decorations are now on the way to Folka in London. You can find out more about the shop and the hand made work it sells here https://www.folka.co/

Leicester Print Festival & Print Fair!

From Monday the 23rd of November until Sunday the 29th of November it is Leicester Print Festival; a whole week of online printmaking activities, demonstrations and events all organised by Leicester Print Workshop. For my contribution to the festival I visited the workshop just before lockdown and did a demonstration of screen printing a two colour print. There was alot to remember as I had to take all the equipment and materials needed, then set up to print in a space I've only worked in once before. It was a little nerve wracking but I'm glad to have tried something new especially as so much is taking place online at the moment. You can watch the film of my demonstration here: https://www.makeprints.co.uk/festival-programme/silkscreen-with-karoline-rerrie

As part of the festival Leicester Print Fair is also taking place online this weekend on the 28th and 29th of November. There will be virtual stalls from nearly 30 print makers from around the UK and a colourful selection of my limited edition screen prints will be available to buy from the print fair. These are just some of my prints which will be for sale on the website this Saturday and Sunday. Leicester Print Festival including the print fair can be found here: https://www.makeprints.co.uk/