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Naracoorte Gallery to host printmaking workshops

One of South Australia’s preeminent printmakers is headed to Naracoorte Regional Gallery to run workshops that are not to be missed.

Sally Caston, based in the Adelaide Hills, will be running the Barbara Hanrahan inspired sessions on June 10 And 12.

She will combine the love of creative play in a no-pressure, relaxed workshop. All you need is just the desire to learn how to create. Sally is a passionate and enthusiastic tutor specialising in printmaking, illustration and design. No experience is necessary for either workshop and places are limited. Suitable for age 18 years and beyond.

Sally’s artistic inclinations began the moment she was able to pick up a coloured pencil.

Her childhood was spent growing up in the Australian bush and she can be found in the outdoors wandering, dreaming, and gaining inspiration from her surroundings.

Majoring in illustration at the University of South Australia, Sally has spent more than 20 years heading up a high-profile Design and Marketing consultancy firm here in Adelaide, South Australia.

Her love of printmaking stems from a reaction against the digital, the mass-produced and overexposure to advertising. To use print as a way of making art – every time you lift that bit of paper off the plate you never know what you are going to get – no matter how much planning you do. It is all those happy accidents – interesting marks, the way the ink sits on paper, even the plate.