Tammy Ratcliff

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  • a lovely weekend- Thank you!

    In July I participated in the 55th Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. It had been 12 years since I had last shown my work in Nathan Philips Square and though I was nervous, I had a most wonderful time. Many THANK YOUs to everyone who came out to visit and say hello. Some of you I…

  • Reduction Monotype

    Monotype and Monoprint are two printmaking techniques that I have always gravitated to in my print practice. Both are a single unique image created from a plate. A monotype is made from printing ink from an unmarked surface, in this technique the image cannot be a multiple. After printing the ink from the plate, very…

  • A Little Bit of Monoprinting

    I have been promising Heidi Berger and Becky Comber a short monoprinting how-to, when the three of our schedules allowed. Luckily we found some time last week to get started. I think they both enjoyed themselves with the new techniques and we stayed later than planned. I think we will have to do some follow up sessions soon. These…

  • A.C.E. was great!

    Super great art auction event at Silence this past weekend. Lots of money raised for kids art classes at the Guelph School of Art and a fun evening for an enthusiastic crowd. Thanks to all the generous artists, My Gallery at Wyndham  Variety, Artisinale restaurant, Wyndham Art Supplies, Ox restaurant, Market Fresh, F & M…

  • 2 visits to Graven Feather and some axe throwing

    I took the bus in to help out at Open Studio with some of the preparations for Art Toronto, (so were are going backwards in time a bit here). Had a lovely visit with Astrid and Open Studio people then headed West to catch up with Pam and Erin at Graven Feather. Graven Feather had an exhibition…

  • A Visitor

    I received a telephone call the other day from a printmaker visiting Toronto who was interested in visiting my studio. I said, ‘sure we can have some lunch and chat print’. My visitor turned out to be the very talented Silvia E. Martinez, founder of Prima Ink printmaking centre in Tromso, Norway. We ate and chatted print talk,…

  • 2 shows

    Two art shows I want to see this month. One is ending this Saturday at the Boarding House Arts in the Capacity 3 Gallery space and features new work from Grazyna Adamska. The second show features the work of Myles Calvert at Atmosphere and will run all of July and August.  Untitled (Queen) 2014  screen…

  • a bit more Spark Box

    Thinking of all the hard work and good times spent at Spark Box recently. So many photos from my time there. Here are a few more.  Their Fall Residency Awards link is here and the deadline is August 31st 2014. good morning, afternoon and evening, everyday Print Studio!

  • 100 prints and Wyndham’s inventory sale

    Today is t-shirt weather with a touch of humid starting to edge it’s way into our lives. Seems too soon after the hell Winter we had that just barely left. There are very few people not happy about the change in temperature around here and we are all tired of complaining about the weather and…

  • Akua Monoprint video

    I have been dabbling with water soluble intaglio inks in my monoprint workshops in my studio lately. So far I have used Charbonnel and most recently, Akua. They are not the same as oil based inks but they do have some definite benefits and it may just take a bit of time and play to understand…