A Brand New Season of Courses at Hot Bed Press

ORIZOME - JAPANESE PAPER DYEING & BooKBINDINg 

Weekend Course
Starting: Saturday 10th October 2015
Ending: Sunday 11th October 2015
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Tutor: Lucy May Schofield

About the course: 

Using Orizome Japanese dying techniques we will explore the effects of geometric folding forms on mulberry paper to create endless combinations of possible patterns and colour. In using folding as a resist method and dye pots of inks, you will experience the surprise of the unfolded orizome emerge. 

You will gain insight into a traditional Japanese practice which continues to be in use as a decorative technique still mastered today. On day two we will use the unique papers created as covers for a series of 4 Japanese stab sewn bindings (four hole, noble, tortoise shell and hemp leaf). 

This course is suitable for those with an interest in cross-processing, a love of textile repeat pattern, and those with a degree of bookbinding experience.

For enquiries and bookings visit Hot Bed Press.

JAPANESE WATER-BASED WOODBLOCK PRINTING (MOKUHANGA)

Weekend Course
Starting: Saturday 24th October 2015
Ending: Sunday 25th October 2015
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Tutor: Lucy May Schofield

About the course: 

Mokuhanga is perfect for artists interested in a non-toxic, table-top, meditative printmaking technique. Learn the basic skills to create a key block and colour separation print, in the tradition of Ukiyo-e, using Japanese tools and materials. With countless possibilities, and minimum equipment (only a baren, no press required!), you will be sure to fall in love with both the process and results of this accessible printmaking method.

For enquiries and bookings visit Hot Bed Press.

Extra Course in Japanese Bookbinding and Box making announced

*Due to oversubscription a New Course has been added to the Summer Schedule at Hot Bed Press Printmakers ! Please contact them for enquiries at http://www.hotbedpress.org/contact-us/ 

*JAPANESE BOOKBINDING & BOX MAKING 

Weekend Course
Starting: Saturday 12th September 2015
Ending: Sunday 13th September 2015
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Tutor: Lucy May Schofield

Experience a unique weekend workshop in Japanese book binding and box making. Learn the skills to make 4 different Fukuro Toji binding styles, (four hole, noble, tortoise shell and hemp leaf) housed within a Hako Chitsu fold-down Box. Using authentic Japanese printed papers, washi, and vintage kimono fabrics sourced from Japan, this course will give you the opportunity to create a selection of the strongest, most elegant and practical bindings for printmakers and artists’ working with the book form.

Summer time WORKSHOPS & TALKS in the UK at Hot Bed Press.

 

JAPANESE BOOKBINDING & BOX MAKING

Weekend Course
Starting: Saturday 15th August 2015
Ending: Sunday 16th August 2015
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Tutor: Lucy May Schofield

About the course: 

Experience a unique weekend workshop in Japanese book binding and box making. Learn the skills to make 4 different Fukuro Toji binding styles, (four hole, noble, tortoise shell and hemp leaf) housed within a Hako Chitsu fold-down Box. Using authentic Japanese printed papers, washi, and vintage kimono fabrics sourced from Japan, this course will give you the opportunity to create a selection of the strongest, most elegant and practical bindings for printmakers and artists’ working with the book form.

Cost: £130.00 / £110.00 members

Maximum of 9 people - For enquiries and bookings visit the Hot Bed Press site here.

JAPANESE WATER-BASED WOODBLOCK PRINTING (MOKUHANGA)

Weekend Course
Starting: Saturday 5th September 2015
Ending: Sunday 6th September 2015
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Tutor: Lucy May Schofield

Mokuhanga is perfect for artists interested in a non-toxic, table-top, meditative printmaking technique. Learn the basic skills to create a key block and colour separation print, in the tradition of Ukiyo-e, using Japanese tools and materials. With countless possibilities, and minimum equipment (only a baren, no press required!), you will be sure to fall in love with both the process and results of this accessible printmaking method.

Lucy May Schofield has been working in Japan for the past 2 years, taking part in the artist-in-residence program at ‘MI-LAB’ (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) and learning about Japanese hand paper making at ‘Awagami Factory’. We are really pleased to have Lucy back with us on a flying visit. Lucy has taught for Hot Bed Press for 8 years and is an internationally renowned book artist with work in many collections. She also works with Sylvie Waltering, (who runs our year-long book arts course), as the other half of 'Battenberg Press'.

Cost: £130.00 / £110.00 members

Maximum of 9 people - For enquiries and bookings visit the Hot Bed Press site here.

JAPANESE PAPER MAKING & PRINTMAKING

1 Evening Course (ARTIST'S TALK)
Starting: Wednesday 9th September 2015
Ending: Wednesday 9th September 2015
From: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Tutor: Lucy May Schofield

Returning to the UK for the Summer, after spending two years in Japan, Lucy May Schofield will give a talk about her recent residency at ‘MI-LAB’ (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) and learning hand paper making at ‘Awagami Factory’. Drawing on the important cultural relationship between paper making and printmaking, she will introduce and show samples of both washi (handmade paper) and mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock prints). Lucy will share her knowledge, ideas and inspirations from Japan, with a focus on how to adapt these traditional materials and techniques into a contemporary art practice.

Note Prices are £5 Advance and £10 on the door irrespective of membership status.

Cost: £10.00 / £5.00 members

Maximum of 40 people - For enquiries and bookings visit the Hot Bed Press site here. 

みそ Making

 みそ / Miso - kanji meaning - taste/flavour + boisterous !

The 33rd Annual Awagami Handmade Papermaking Workshop

Over 5 days in August I will be learning the art of Japanese hand paper making at the renowned Awagami factory in Tokushima. Excited doesn't cut it. 

www.awagami.com

A New Space

www.lucymayschofield.com

A place for work / projects / news,

and a shop.

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*New Courses at Hot Bed Press

Bookmaking for Artists #2

 

4 evenings Course
Starting: Tuesday 9th July 2013
Ending: Tuesday 30th July 2013
From: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

This course is suited to those with a bit of previous experience of book arts and/or for those who have done one of my courses before. Over 4 Summer evenings build on the knowledge and skills that you already have by learning how to create new book structures to house your artwork. With a focus on functional forms that allow single sewn pages to open flat, the versatile Coptic stitch and the creation of cloth covered slip cases. The course will expand your toolbox of techniques and talents in enabling you to confidently go on to make more of your own artist’s book editions.
Cost: £125.00 / £105.00 members
For more information go here.

Hard-backed Book Making

 

weekend Course
Starting: Saturday 3rd August 2013
Ending: Sunday 4th August 2013
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

This two day course will show you how to make your own hardback books from scratch.
You will begin by learning how to traditionally sew onto tapes along with compensation binding methods. Then you will go on to make a hard-back cloth bound book complete with endpapers, headbands and a bookmark ribbon. The course is ideal for those who already have some experience of making books but is also suitable for anyone new to bookmaking. The techniques and skills acquired will mean you’ll never want to buy a ready-made sketch book again.
Cost: £125.00 / £105.00 members
For more information go here
 

Meet the Maker (me) in Cumbria *this Friday*

Come and say hello at the beautiful The Shop Floor in picturesque Ulverston on Friday evening to see my new special edition of Cumbrian sayings letterpress printed by hand and witnessing the magic of the Adana Press. I will also be unveiling some brand new work ready for the eyes of visitors. 

'Letters of Triangles' drop in monoprinting at BABE Arnolfini

Celebrating the launch of my new artist’s book ‘Letters of Triangles’ I invited visitors to BABE to create a simple one or two word contribution using the name of a person, place, object or feeling that they missed. Inspired by the ‘triangular letters’ Russian soldiers wrote home during WWII these secret longings formed a collection of anonymous nostalgia notes by close of the book fair. I had 40 contributions and met some very special people. 

Thank you to everyone who came along to BABE and who gave the project a dose of their time, contemplation and printing talents, it was much appreciated. x

Clamshell Presentation Boxes Course Coming up

Due to a few new and exciting commissions of late, I have rekindled my love of making Clamshell boxes, though I'd hardly lost it. There is something uniquely satisfying in all the measuring, building, cutting, turning and tucking in the making of a cloth covered clamshell box. There will be the opportunity to make 2 boxes over a  weekend workshop on 23rd & 24th March, the first to a standard size and the second, a bespoke box made to your own specifications to house a beloved book or print edition. Feel the love of box making! For details and bookings visit hot bed press. 

LCBA Press & Valentines Workshop

The London Center for Book Arts has had a lot of wonderful press of late, and here in El Pais 4 of my  publications were featured to accompany the article. Do visit the new center, it promises to be awe inspiring. x

Valentine's Workshop: Create Victorian Inspired Cards at LCBA

Saturday workshop, 11am-5pm

9 February 2013

For this Valentine's Day, spend an afternoon at the London Centre for Book Arts and create a one-of-a-kind, hand-made concept card inspired by embellished, pop-up, and sculptural odes to Love from the Victorian era.Learn Simple folding, collage and printing techniques, and take home the finished project in your own, hand-made bespoke envelope.All materials included, but additional materials are encouraged - to make your projects truly unique.

BOOK yourself in for an unique valentines workshop

News for you in 2013

New Courses have been announced at Hot Bed Press to begin the year creatively.
I will be running three courses this term including 'Clamshell Presentation Boxes', 'Typewriter Art' and 'Book making for Artists Level 1', so have a peek over here at what's coming up.

The Lovely Simon Goode at the groundbreaking London Center for Book Arts (LCBA) was featured in the Guardian yesterday, along with an image of my book Roadkill. I have been asked to deliver an exciting new workshop in early February at the center, with details soon to follow.

I also have a couple of outings planned for BABL in the coming months, so do keep your eyes peeled for that beautiful beast of a van, Dolores, meandering through the countryside. 

Typewriter achievements

Achievements from the super and satisfying workshop in Typewriter Art a few weeks ago, and running again due to popular demand early next year. Contact  HBP to reserve your place as a Christmas Pressie to yourself!

Typewriter Art

Tutor: Lucy May Schofield

Tuesday evenings 19^th & 26^th February

An intensive two evening workshop in the art of typewriters/typewriter art. A rare opportunity to discover and experiment with at least 8 different models of typewriters to create text as image. Be inspired by examples of artists pushing the medium of the typewriter in their artworks along with historical examples of calligrams and concrete poetry.  You will become addicted to the potential of this wondrous medium and its instant print gratification.

cost £55 (£45*)

Highland Air

A late November whirlwind week once again teaching on the wondrous Portfolio Course at Bridge House Art in Ullapool. The moment the train chugs north of Edinburgh my heart swells with a feeling of utter warmth. Perhaps my ancestors were Scottish, I can't explain the love I feel for this part of the world. It was a week of long train journey love, the warmest hospitality at Old Moss Road, observing how to cable knit post Shetland G&T & a vat of local mussels, Full Luminous Moon gazing, Talent galore students for 3 full days of book making, hazy sleeper cabin to a frosty station home. Lovely & Lucky.