


Rachel Red is joining Mytholmroyd Arts Festival this year to provide a series of print workshops.
If you live in the Calder Valley – you’ve probably seen Rachel’s work, whether it’s a colourful poster for an event somewhere or one of her gorgeous products adorned with woodland animals. Rachel has also done a lot of printing workshops. She really enjoys developing an atmosphere where people get quite meditative as they’re printing – leaving all their troubles at the door.
Rachel is going to be running the MAF print workshops at the Mytton Arts Trust. She says all you’ll need to bring are some clothes you don’t mind getting inky and a willingness to be creative. She’s going to be teaching a technique called collograph – which is a hybrid of collage and printing. Each participant will be able to come along to two workshops. At the first workshop they’ll be building the printing plate using collage techniques. At the end of the first workshop, these prints will be varnished with shellac. During the second workshop the participants will use the plates to make prints, using all the special technology at Myttom.