Samantha Bryan and the West Yorkshire Print Workshop open weekend.

Although my post header sounds more like a chapter from Harry Potter than a blog post,

it is indeed a great coincidence that I had this rare days’ adventure.

Samantha Bryan (who I’ve blogged about previously here), and I are Facebook acquaintances

and its through her posting a mention about the open studio weekend, that I knew about it at all.

You see good blogging does work lol.

Anyway, I had a great morning catching up with the designers and craft makers at the workshop,

and thanks to everyone who posed for images and chatted.

Here are some images of Samantha and her beautiful work.

She’ll be exhibiting at the Great Northern Craft Fair, in Manchester

on the 22nd – 24th October but more about that here.

Sharing a studio with Sam was Wire illustration artist Helaina Sharpley,

who has sold work to the well known artist David Hockney (story here ).

Helaina has a beautiful style and creates 3-D images with wire.

They are hard to capture on photograph as they loose their depth, best seen in the flesh as it were.

Italian photographer, Andrea Canegrati showed some beautiful landscapes and full colour prints.

Andrea gets his images printed using a special process called Ilfochrome

(formerly known as Cibachrome), it is a dye destruction positive-to-positive

photographic process used for the reproduction of slides on photographic paper.

The prints are made on a dimensionally stable polyester base, essentially a plastic base

opposed to traditional paper base. Since it uses azo dyes on a polyester base,

the print will not fade, discolor, or deteriorate for a long time.

They are beautiful to see close up and my images, don’t do the colours justice.

He takes portraits of children during the day and in the evening and weekends,

his landscapes come to life. Keep up the excellent work Andrea.

Setting up still in progress.

A full studio gathering.