Join printmaker Sheri Hancock in exploring green printmaking techniques using Solarplate, a photo emulsion etching process. This amazing, green, printmaking technology allows you to use UV light to develop your image (yes, you can use the SUN) and tap water as a solvent to etch your plate!

Participants will learn how to transfer an artist image, illustration or photograph to transparent film and then onto a photosensitive plate. Controlled exposure of the plate to light will cause the image to be etched. Sheri will show all the steps, from exposure to etching to inking and printing the plate.

Workshop includes three 8” x 10” Solarplates.

Sheri Hancock is an accomplished artist and graphic designer who has exhibited her work in multiple group and solo shows throughout her thirty year career. Born and raised in Nova Scotia, she grew up in a family of artists and went on to receive undergraduate degrees from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and a Master of Art from the University of Iowa. She is a skilled printmaker and teacher and for eighteen years managed the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in Vermont. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections. At present she works from her home studio in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.