Painterly Printing with a Gelli Plate

with Janet Trierweiler

Saturday–Sunday, July 20–21, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Tuition: $215

This workshop includes lunch at 1 p.m. on Saturday and brunch at noon on Sunday.

Experimenting with Gelli Plate monotypes can add a playful and exciting new dimension to any painting practice. Gelli Plates are durable, reusable and store at room temperature, allowing for easy monoprinting without a press! Working in layers, students will experiment with mark-making, stencils, masking, and making creative tools out of common household items. Learn how to use the right paper to get the effects you desire. Water-based ink, Golden Open Acrylics or fluid acrylics can be used with Gelli Plates. Gelli Plates will be provided for in-class use.

Janet enjoys creating gestural abstract paintings. Her focus is on the sensual nature of art and the healing aspect of beauty. “Like the meeting point of mind and body, experienced through yoga and the Chakra system, artistic composition can be felt both physically and through conscious response.” This interest in the full spectrum of human experience, from primal instincts to highest consciousness led to her studies of Eastern art and healing, becoming a Reiki Master through the Usui Shiki Ryoho System of Natural Healing and Certified Feng Shui Designer at the New York Institute of Art and Design.  Janet says, the acceptance of paradox has been one of the most healing lessons of her life.  Her process reflects this attitude.  It is both fluid and structural, organic and geometric.
Janet is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFA in Studio Art, she teaches drawing and painting, currently online, and leads workshops on Drawing as Meditation as well as other topics. Collectors include Northwestern University, the Illinois Institute of Art, Frank Thomas and Fifield Companies.

Janet Trierweiler,, Coast, 2024, mix media on panel, 8"x10" inches. Images courtesy of the artist.