Print [works] Weston

To celebrate two years of being at our studio/workshop unit, we are opening up our workshop doors and welcome you to visit us during two days of make and take sessions and an exhibition of work for sale created by our Print Club members and PWW friends. 

Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th September between 10 - 4pm we will be at our workshop, Unit 28, Balmer Knightcott Industrial Estate, Banwell, BS29 6JN and hope you can join us.

We are excited to offer open access to our workshop space, giving you the opportunity to create prints making use of our equipment.  

We are offering this on Fridays only at the moment. Members will need to complete a workshop induction first. Click Here

Workshop vouchers

There are two options.

Instant printable version - The value and cost of the voucher is £40. When purchasing, you will instantly receive an order confirmation for you to print out at home.   Just choose the Instant option.

Physical version -  The value of the voucher is £40, however the cost of the voucher will be charged at checkout at £42 to cover the cost of postage and packing. We will send you a physical hand printed, wrapped voucher. Once we receive your order we will send you a physical voucher by 1st class Royal Mail.  We can fill it out with the information you provide.  All these vouchers are hand made and hand printed to provide you with a unique gift giving experience. Each one is different.  Just choose the Postal option.

Vouchers will be valid for 6 months from the date of issue and is redeemable against any workshop session that is advertised on the workshops section of our website www.printworksweston.co.uk.  Workshops are added regularly.

PRINT [WORKS] WESTON PRINT CLUB

A regular monthly meeting on the last Thursday of the month

We are running a social Print Club regularly at our workshop on the last Thursday of each month.  The cost is £5 per person to cover our costs. Please keep an eye on our Instagram  page for updates.  Click Here to see some pictures of previous Print Club activities.

NEXT PRINT CLUB IS THURSDAY JANUARY 30TH 6 - 8PM.*

If you have an interest in Print Making in any of its many forms, then come along.  Meet other like minded people. Whatever your level or where ever you are on your printmaking journey, if you have the passion for print, come along.

You may just want a couple of hours to work on a project whilst being able to talk to other creatives.  You might want to discuss and share tips and tricks of printmaking processes.  It may be that you would like to collaborate with others to have an exhibition or have a space to hire for workshops of your own.  Sometimes it's just nice to have some company whilst doing some work. Sometimes we organise an activity to do whilst we are there. Lets create a community of Print Makers in our area.

Print Club Prompt

We think it can be helpful to have a prompt for our Print Clubbers to make a start on a project. There is no pressure to create anything, only for it to stimulate creativity.  The current prompt is 'The written word' to be interpreted in any way.  This could be about song lyrics, a poem or a story to name a few potential ideas. There is no size restriction or restrictions to print process.  We would love to see your results.

Whatever the reason, we would love to see you on Thursday.  If you can make it, let us know by emailing us here, or drop us a DM on Instagram or Facebook.

Calendar

December - No Print Club

January - This will be a presentation of work bought in that is inspired by the earlier prompt of 'The written word' and having a general meeting of future Print Club ideas and projects.

February - Thursday 27th February - Venue to be confirmed. 

March - Thursday 27th March - Venue to be confirmed.

April - Thursday 24th April - at Print [works] Weston

May - Thursday 29th May - at Print [works] Weston

Our space is a work in progress, but we believe it to be a creative, friendly, welcoming and inclusive space for all that visit us.  We will always have the kettle on and biscuits to hand!

We aim to work within the community to bring Printmaking to the people! 

Sustainability is important to us, so whilst we can't hope to be completely sustainable because of our creation of 'physical' products, we do try to make informed decisions about the products we use and the amount we use.  We try to minimise paper waste and maximise it's use elsewhere.  We recycle or reuse our papers where we can by keeping a paper 'stash' that we can use in future projects or workshops for collage and papermaking, to give a couple of examples.

In our intaglio processes, we are always looking at more environmentally friendly ways to produce our work and introduce these as they have been tried and tested by us.  We use mainly vegetable oil to clean up oil based inks and keep the use of solvents to a bare minimum.

We are happy that a couple of our product suppliers have changed their packaging to plastic free and when sending products ourselves, we use plastic free packaging also and reuse where we can.