Rikard Österlund has developed a wonderful photographic side to INTRA’s creative offerings, from hosting the Rochester incarnation of Photobook Club, using our workspaces as a location for photo shoots, and to his recent amazing experiments with wet plate collodion – one of the earliest photographic processes. Continue reading
Roll up! Roll up! It’s the Wayzgoose Print Fair back to confuse you with its peculiar name and impress you with its fabulous array of printed loveliness. Come along for a wonderful day of chatting about print, watching printmaking demos, and taking part in our tombola – you could win a printmaking course, or a strange … Continue reading
Sara Wordley aka The Skiving Scholar brings her wonderful silver clay courses to INTRA most months and oh do we love them! This magical substance can be sculpted just like clay, but when it is fired in Sara’s kiln, the binder burns away leaving 99.9% real fine silver! After a whole lot of fun sculpting and some polishing … Continue reading
The printmaking studio at INTRA was set up by Xtina Lamb and Adam Piper, and equipped with a wide range of presses and printmaking equipment to make fine prints on paper and textiles. The studio collaborates with other artists on courses, events, projects and exhibitions and has built up a friendly community of printmakers. At only 40 minutes from London by train … Continue reading
A friendly craft drop in centre founded and run by Faye Brown, with the aim to be a ‘home from home’ where local crafters & families can practice, learn, teach and sell their crafts. Visitors pop in to share skills and new ideas, become part of the growing community, improve their well-being, have a chance to socialise and receive … Continue reading
EDIT: Sadly Stephen moved on from INTRA in October 2015. We’ll miss him, but we wish him all the best on the other side of the estuary and hope he’ll visit us soon. ———————————————————– “What’s that?” “It’s Stephen’s glass kiln!” With his studio space positioned on the other side of an internal window looking into our … Continue reading
It’s halfway through the exhibition run of ‘Beyond Boundaries – Printmaking by Xtina Lamb, Adam Piper and Liz Miller’ from INTRA residents Medway Fine Printmakers, and the feedback so far has been great. Visitors have enjoyed the inclusion of a selection of plates and descriptions of printmaking techniques, as it has both demystified the processes employed, and led to … Continue reading
