Spent a great weekend at Hotbed Press Salford.phtml?category=homepage&ref=0 learning gum Arabic transfer process, which uses photocopies as a printing matrix. Produced a fair amount of work which I’m pretty pleased with, and continues the journey I started with the self / land / scapes project, as I’d always envisaged at least some of the photographs becoming prints. Really good tuition from Justin Sanders, who works in the print dept. of Birmingham University. I’m going to become a member of Hotbed to enable me to continue researching this process, and develop more work. This feels like an interesting departure into further abstraction from the starting point. The process lends itself to easy (and cheap) experimentation, using layering, colour and the decay of the original photocopy as a way of affecting the finished piece of work. Great stuff!