Light from Dark – Burnished Aquatint
Friday 7 March 2025
10.30am – 5.30pm
An intensive 5-hour workshop with Roberta Feoli
Burnished aquatint is an etching technique that imitates mezzotint, replicating its aesthetic qualities and image-making process. We will create a rough, dark surface from which, using tools like the scraper and burnisher, we will bring out lights and shadows with highly effective tonal results. Remaining faithful to the less-toxic approach in Printmaking, we will use an alternative method to the traditional aquatint resin.
€75,00
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Sustainable Printmaking
Series of workshops with a sustainable approach and materials. An overview of the most recent and innovative research on engraving and printing processes without the use of chemical solvents and toxic materials and with water-washable inks.
This series of workshops, which can be attended individually, is aimed at engravers who wish to make their practice more sustainable and healthy, but also at those who want to approach intaglio engraving with particular attention to health and the environment.
Roberta Feoli
Engraver, printer, teacher, Feoli specialized in Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino. She experimented with managing a print shop during her Erasmus at the Faculty of Fine Arts Alonso Cano in Granada and continued her studies at the IScuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, where she later became the print shop manager for about ten years. In 2018, she was a Guest Artist in the USA for Mixit Print Studio and Boston Printmakers, who invited her to give lectures to American universities and print shops. She also became the first Italian printmaker to obtain a specialization in less toxic printmaking techniques at Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence (Northampton), Massachusetts. She currently collaborates and serves as an external consultant for the Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio in West Newton, Massachusetts.
In 2023, she partnered with Silvana Gaspari on the project “Charta picta – Opificio d’arte 2023,” an artist residency, traveling exhibition, and workshops related to the Vas Paper Mill. A member of the “People of Print” community, she is an active supporter of respectful and sustainable printing, organizing courses and conferences on the subject for years.
