The Second Tile - The Copper Shop

The second tile will be an image of  the Copper Shop. This is the gallery of Arts and Crafts style furniture, books, pottery, stained glass and all sorts of artisan made work. I have been very pleased to have had a semi-permanent exhibit of my prints in the gallery even before the Roycroft Campus Corporation bought it.

The Copper Shop - built 1902

Back when Kitty Turgeon owned the "Roycroft Gift Shop" she had my prints in the shop for sale. I have always loved all things Roycroftie and took the first Elderhostel that was held on the campus. That was when Kitty saw my work and asked me to have a show of them in her shop. Screen printing was never an Arts and Crafts technique, but I felt that my process of painting the original images directly on the screen and doing all of the rest of the printing work myself fit the arts and crafts criteria perfectly. Later, Kitty suggested that I apply for the Roycroft Renaissance Mark.

I was awarded that privilege and for years I participated in the indoor and outdoor shows with the RALA group. I was even the mark chairman for 4 years and I designed two posters for the summer festivals.
A few years ago, I made a print of the Copper Shop. It was made with about four colors. I used two screens, one had a line drawing of the building and the other was used to make a reduction print with all of the colors other than the line drawing. First, I printed all of the colors and then printed the line drawing on top of them. This image is the line drawing of the Copper Shop - I will use it to print tiles that were recently removed from the building and replaced with new terra cotta tiles from the Boston Valley Pottery.