Elaine van Dyk

Some of you may not be aware that Martin survived a severe heart attack about 2-3 weeks’ ago.

He and Tine have become very special people to me, and I can but only imagine how frightening this must have been for both of them. They both know my thoughts are with them, but I would like to extent this opportunity for others to wish them well too, and also to wish for Martin to make a good re…

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I’m curious about the trend towards “rating” groups by popularity, or activity – what is the purpose of publishing these ratings?

I’d be interested to know what peoples’ thoughts are, and why these ratings appear to be important. It seems like some sort of competition is creeping in amongst the ranks again. It gives recognition to those groups with large numbers of members and hence huge…

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Yet again I just have to broadcast what an amazing group of artists we have in the Printmakers and Printmaking group.

Marilyn Brown is doing such an excellent job as host, and in promoting each one of us within the group itself. The feature page always looks terrific, and her weekly newslet…

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What a pleasure it is to see Seth Weaver as the Featured Artist for this week in the Printmakers and Printmaking Group. Seth makes a great ambassador for the group, and obviously his creativity extends beyond visual images to the written word, so please read his entertaining thoughts on printmaking .

And t…

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I’m so excited to see 6 of my images in “Featured Work” alongside all those other artists’ excellent work in the Printmakers and Printmaking Group.

Whoever made that selection, thank you for the promotion and recognition. I feel extremely honoured.

Elaine

I had a bit of spare time today so I thought I’d go through the artworks in my most favourite group of all time, “Printmakers & Printmaking”. It never ceases to amaze me what fantastic art there is in our world, and this small group of printmakers is no exception. There are only 15 pages of works posted, but what an exciting 15 pages they are! Printmaking doesn’t seem to be all that popular w…

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I felt really honoured to participate in The Couch this week because the RedBubble team have done such an excellent job, and are continuing to work extremely hard at promoting our work and keeping us happy and stimulated. Without RedBubble and this whole creative community of members, I believe my emergence from a mundane, everyday existence into one of creativity, would have been much slower….

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