Gelli Plate Prints Using Botanicals from Landcraft Gardens

Learn the basics of gelli plate printing with Wendy Prellwitz using acrylic paints and botanicals sourced from the Landcraft Garden to create colorful, abstracted one-of-a-kind prints.

Gelli plate printing is a great introduction to printmaking for the novice printmaker and print-curious! Using a soft reusable gelatin plate, brayers (a type of roller) and acrylic paint, textures, stencils and plant material are transferred in layers of color to printing paper. The creative process continues with the addition of colors and intentional voids layered over the plate’s paint residue to lovely effect. The possibilities are endless, and the abundance of botanicals to select from at Landcraft is staggering. Learn how to create these simple, beautiful prints under the expert tutelage of the North Fork’s own artist and printmaker, Wendy Prellwitz… and then keep producing frameable art with the plates at home. This process also makes cards, textiles and more. Lunch to be provided.

Each participant will receive their own set of gelli plate printing supplies to keep.

WENDY PRELLWITZ is an abstract print maker and painter inspired by water’s motion and light whose work has been described as “a connection to the infinite, unknowable beyond.”Educated at The Rhode Island School of Design and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, she lives and works in both Cambridge, MA and Peconic, NY. She has exhibited in the New England/ New York areas and beyond for 30 years. She recently had a solo exhibit of Nocturnes at the Lenz Winery in Peconic and has been included in group shows at the Alex Ferrone Gallery, East End Arts and The North Fork Artists Collective on Long Island. This spring her works are to be included at the Brooklyn Fine Arts Print Fair and a Watercolors & Monotypes exhibit in Cambridge, MA. Wendy was awarded a fellowship from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation to paint in Ireland, a grant from the St Botolf Club in Boston to tour Rome, and the Spirit Award from Maud Morgan Arts in Cambridge for her continued service there. Wendy teaches printmaking at her Peconic studio.

AUDIENCE: Adults

WEATHER: Rain or Shine

Boxed lunch to be provided. All levels of ability are welcome. Materials list to follow. Please bring what you'll need to work comfortably outside in the garden, in sun or shade. Comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not spray the garden to manage ticks. Please take appropriate precautions.

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