COURSES: Workshop Hire

A workshop for your own use

For experienced artists, the etching workshop is available for exclusive use with dates and access hours arranged to suit. The facilities, based in a residential house in a rural setting has ground floor access to the 25m² print workshop with further space available in a 30m² converted garage, (mainly used for aquatinting and clean up processes). The facilitites can be used for editioning, with or without the assistance of a technician or may simply be used by artists to explore the creative possibilities intagio offers. Artists who hire are given a tour of the facilities and instructed in the safe usage of equipment, mordants and materials.

Our facilities consist of the following:

Etching Press
– robust, 300 kg heavy, new etching press (2008)
– bed dimensions: 60 x 120 cm (1 cm thick phenolic resin)
– max. printable area: 50 x 100 cm
– print pressure: min. 10 tonnes

Hotplate
– size: 35 x 50 cm
– suitable for plates upto A3 size

Aquatint Box
– this is is a simple but sturdy cardboard box which works consistently for aquatint laying on plates upto A3 in size

Etching baths
– our etching baths are suitable for the etching of plates upto A3 size

Mordants
– we are only set up for the use of copper sulphate saline solution (used with zinc plates) or ferric chloride / edinburgh etch (used with copper plates). Please note we cannot accommodate the use of nitric, hydrochloric or sulphuric acids.

Charbonnel Colours
– blacks: F66 (middle black), 55985 (strong black), 55981 (universal black)
– other colours: deep yellow, cardinal red, cobalt blue, turquoise blue, spring green, burnt sienna, Payne's gray, opaque white

Papers and other materials available by arrangement

 

For further information and enquiries:
Tel: +43 (0)2274 301 26
E-mail (type following address):

 

 

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