Joyce Silverstone
Joyce Silverstone studied painting and printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She was a traveling Scholar and showed her work in NYC and Boston, collected by MIT and the De Cordova Museum. Joyce has been exploring ways of blending printing and painting for 30 years. She has taught image development and printing at Guild Studio School and Snowfarm in Williamsburg, MA. Joyce is a certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and teaches creative process to students of meditation and self awareness.
Individualized Instruction
After teaching monotype methods and drawing for 20 years, I have grown ever interested in the moments of discovery that come out of the process of making a print. Exploring new and various ways of creating a monotype, encourages artists to develop related series of images and ideas into visual poems. These explorations can begin to raise questions about content and mark making and form the basis for an artistic dialogue, and students can feel confident developing their personal imagery. I enjoy introducing students to simple to learn, but powerful to use techniques that form a foundation for developing painterly prints.
My background as a painter, and my interest in drawing methods, form the core of what I offer: color theory and color mixing, viscosity printing, monotype off the press, layering and combining monotype with woodcut, collagraph, and drypoint plates, and transfer drawing methods. I especially like sharing these techniques and seeing how they can help artists “break through a barrier” or come into a new relationship with their work. Additionally, my experience as a teacher and practitioner of Rosen Method Bodywork, calls on me to practice awareness, attention and presence. I bring this aspect of my experience to my art making and art teaching, to create a supportive place to learn.