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HOT BED PRESS – Coronavirus lockdown
We are currently looking to re-open in June. The stage 3, further easing of lockdown measures will come into place ‘no earlier’ than 17th May, with more announcements around a week earlier. We will await these announcements before setting a definite date to reopen.
We remain committed to keeping staff, members and everyone safe and will be working hard to keep on getting Hot Bed Press ready to welcome back members and get back to some sense of normality and creativity.
The Complete Printmaker 2021
We are pleased to once again be running the Complete Printmaker from 10th May 2021. The courses, (a morning and an evening version of the course), are both now fully booked up. In fact the courses were both full within 2 days of advertising from just one bulletin, and we have had to tur people away. We are restricting numbers to 14 on the daytime and 12 on the evening for safety, [compared to 16 on each in previous years].
We are taking reserve bookings and advanced interest for 2022, for which we already have a growing list. Get in touch if you want to get early notice of the course which will be advertised later this year and will start in February or March 2022.
The Complete Book Arts 2021
We are planning for a condensed/abridged version of The Complete Book Artist course to run from September for 20 weeks. More to be announced soon.
We are also planning a gradual return to normal running including reopening to members in June, (all being well), and planning weekend and evening courses from June/July. We can’t suddenly reopen to everyone, much as we’d like to. We are taking it steady and carefully.
In the meantime we are continuing improvements and investing in new equipment to make the workshop even better and have painted top to bottom over the last 12 months. We have now taken delivery of 5 brand new screen beds from our friends at Kippax, so the screen room is looking really top class.
All the best & stay safe
Sean Rorke – Artistic Director
April23rd
There has been lots of work on in recent months, over 14 months in fact. We have new benching for more inking spaces, a new water bath and new acid cabinet, and now 5 new screen beds replacing some old and tired and quite honestly, quirky, some would say frustrating second hand screen beds we […]
Read moreApril6th
Hot Bed Press is still closed during the coronavirus pandemic. The latest easing of lockdown announcements are great news; a beer in a pub garden, meeting outside in more than one household, shops to reopen etc. However, due to the nature of our business we are not allowed to reopen to members just yet. There […]
Read moreJanuary7th
Here we go again. Hot Bed Press will remain shut until the end of February. We are currently assuming we will be able to reopen around 22nd February but await government announcements. Brace yourself… it may end up being clear to reopen in March. We will not be beaten We will return We will come […]
Read moreNovember26th
We hopefully (fingers and toes crossed) have something very exciting happening next month… Hot Bed Press member Kamila Kasprowicz will be showing work in ‘Interspaces’. Kamila will be joined by artists Aleksander Ostrowski, Wojciech Osuchowski, Justyna Stefariczyk and Ryszard Pielesz who are all based in Poland. We are really excited to invite international artists to […]
Read moreNovember2nd
With the announcement on Sunday 1st November that England is to be put into national lockdown from Thursday 5th November until Wednesday 2nd December, Hot Bed Press will close it’s doors to members once again for a month. We are really sorry for any inconvenience. It had been so good to have members coming […]
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