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Roy
@royscholten.bsky.social
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Printmaking artist based in The Netherlands.
Make image, make sense.

Links to things: https://www.royscholten.com
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Last Friday I attended the opening of Print International, a printmaking exhibition in Wrexham, Wales. Many thanks to curator Ed Catley for this opportunity.

Printing in Dutch is now on show at:

Print International
08.11.2025 - 24.01.2026
Ty Pawb, Wrexham, Wales

www.typawb.wales/event/print-...
A wide photo of a white wall with framed prints. My works on the first four from the left.
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
royscholten.bsky.social
Last Friday I attended the opening of Print International, a printmaking exhibition in Wrexham, Wales. Many thanks to curator Ed Catley for this opportunity.

Printing in Dutch is now on show at:

Print International
08.11.2025 - 24.01.2026
Ty Pawb, Wrexham, Wales

www.typawb.wales/event/print-...
A wide photo of a white wall with framed prints. My works on the first four from the left.
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Making a second book on LEGO letterpress. This time we *will* explain how we do it :)

*The Hilversum Method. The technique, philosophy and joy of LEGO letterpress* will be published in an English and Dutch edition.

www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19...
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#printmaking #legoletterpress #crowdfunding
Dummy of a book, standing, half opened, seen on the spine. The left then is the back flap, with a black and white photo and small text underneath. On the right in big pink The Hilversum Method. Under that a small pattern created from a pink and black lego shape. A multi-layered and multi-colored patterned background with a stylized black skull printed on top of it. The Hilversum Method in pink, bottom left. Mockup of a page spread with a diagram of a lego baseplate with a single round dot above it. On the right a detail of a pattern created from overlapping blue and red dots. The Hilversum Method in pink, bottom left. The Hilversum Method. The technique, philosophy and joy of LEGO letterpress.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Making a second book on LEGO letterpress. This time we *will* explain how we do it :)

*The Hilversum Method. The technique, philosophy and joy of LEGO letterpress* will be published in an English and Dutch edition.

www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19...
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#printmaking #legoletterpress #crowdfunding
Dummy of a book, standing, half opened, seen on the spine. The left then is the back flap, with a black and white photo and small text underneath. On the right in big pink The Hilversum Method. Under that a small pattern created from a pink and black lego shape. A multi-layered and multi-colored patterned background with a stylized black skull printed on top of it. The Hilversum Method in pink, bottom left. Mockup of a page spread with a diagram of a lego baseplate with a single round dot above it. On the right a detail of a pattern created from overlapping blue and red dots. The Hilversum Method in pink, bottom left. The Hilversum Method. The technique, philosophy and joy of LEGO letterpress.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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#printmaking #LEGOletterpress #birds
Roy Scholten and the Common Kestrel: A Flight of Craft and Precision
Few artists have taken the humble LEGO brick and transformed it into a medium of fine printmaking quite like Roy Scholten. Known for his innovative LEGO letterpress technique and his long-running 50 B...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Perhaps the only accurate post I've seen on this site about kerning
October 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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#kerning #typography #letterpress
Wood type letters A and T with sawed off bits so that they can be put closer together.
October 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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A selection of my prints will be on show at Print International in Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Wales. November 8 till January 24. Excited!

www.typawb.wales/event/print-...
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#exhibition #printmaking #wales
Poster for the exhibition. Lots of yellow dots on white in a radial composition. Over it in black text: Tŷ Pawb. Print Rhyngwladol, Print International. 08.11.2025 - 24.01.2026. Arddangosfa bob dwy flynedd sy'n cynnwys, a biennial exhibition featuring East London Printmakers, Constructure, Printing in Dutch, Red Plate Press, Regional Print Centre, Spike Print Studio. Stryd Y Farchnad / Market Street / Wrecsam / Wrexham
September 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Visitors of the opening of my *elementair* exhibition all got a handmade print of the Common Kestrels' back pattern.
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#legoletterpress #printmaking #letterpress #hilversummethod
Photo of a hand holding a small black on white print of a dotted pattern. Directly behind it a stylized print of a falcon, on gray paper. The pattern on its back is the same as the one on the small white card.
September 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I’ve been making prints using LEGO® parts for over 12 years. The book The Hilversum Method will explain how it works, show why it is so inspiring, and tell you what you need to get started.

Stay tuned or subscribe here: royscholten.nl/newsletter/
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#printmaking #LEGOletterpress #hilversummethod
A poster- or book cover-like layout. An abstract composition of interlocking geometric black shapes printed using lego tiles. There's a red line along the left side. Underneath the text The Hilversum Method. The technique, philosophy and joy of LEGO letterpress.
October 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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I’ve been making prints using LEGO® parts for over 12 years. The book The Hilversum Method will explain how it works, show why it is so inspiring, and tell you what you need to get started.

Stay tuned or subscribe here: royscholten.nl/newsletter/
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#printmaking #LEGOletterpress #hilversummethod
A poster- or book cover-like layout. An abstract composition of interlocking geometric black shapes printed using lego tiles. There's a red line along the left side. Underneath the text The Hilversum Method. The technique, philosophy and joy of LEGO letterpress.
October 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Started filling up our new furniture cabinet. Some wood, some metal furniture. Wood preferred as this is the cabinet for using with the wood type collection.
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#letterpress #typography
Een houten meubel met 10 schappen elk in vier ongelijke vakken. Elk vak is gevuld met zogenaamd holwit: stukken hout en metaal in verschillende typografische maten.
September 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Read more about this print and its design process here: bildung.royscholten.nl/posts/2025/t...
Common Kestrel
A print of the Dutch bird of the year 2025.
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July 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Two of my prints will be on show at The Natural Eye exhibition by @societyofwildlifeartists in @mallgalleries. And that's in London, 16 to 25 October.

Pretty cool methinks!
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#exhibition #wildlife #printmaking
Stylized image of a Common Kestrel with over it the text: SWLA, Mall Galleries. Society of Wildlife Artists, The Natural Eye 2025.
October 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Two of my prints will be on show at The Natural Eye exhibition by @societyofwildlifeartists in @mallgalleries. And that's in London, 16 to 25 October.

Pretty cool methinks!
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#exhibition #wildlife #printmaking
Stylized image of a Common Kestrel with over it the text: SWLA, Mall Galleries. Society of Wildlife Artists, The Natural Eye 2025.
October 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
royscholten.bsky.social
Started filling up our new furniture cabinet. Some wood, some metal furniture. Wood preferred as this is the cabinet for using with the wood type collection.
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#letterpress #typography
Een houten meubel met 10 schappen elk in vier ongelijke vakken. Elk vak is gevuld met zogenaamd holwit: stukken hout en metaal in verschillende typografische maten.
September 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Visitors of the opening of my *elementair* exhibition all got a handmade print of the Common Kestrels' back pattern.
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#legoletterpress #printmaking #letterpress #hilversummethod
Photo of a hand holding a small black on white print of a dotted pattern. Directly behind it a stylized print of a falcon, on gray paper. The pattern on its back is the same as the one on the small white card.
September 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
royscholten.bsky.social
A selection of my prints will be on show at Print International in Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Wales. November 8 till January 24. Excited!

www.typawb.wales/event/print-...
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#exhibition #printmaking #wales
Poster for the exhibition. Lots of yellow dots on white in a radial composition. Over it in black text: Tŷ Pawb. Print Rhyngwladol, Print International. 08.11.2025 - 24.01.2026. Arddangosfa bob dwy flynedd sy'n cynnwys, a biennial exhibition featuring East London Printmakers, Constructure, Printing in Dutch, Red Plate Press, Regional Print Centre, Spike Print Studio. Stryd Y Farchnad / Market Street / Wrecsam / Wrexham
September 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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When you were typesetting late at night somewhere in a poorly-lit print shop in 1702 Germany, and woke up to notice that you fucked up ...
A page from a book from 1702 with different kinds of used type. Access: https://vd18.gbv.de/viewer/image/013753819/1/LOG_0000/
September 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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M'n expositie ‘elementair’ opent aanstaande vrijdag 5 september om 5 uur in de middag. Welkom!.

Te zien: recente vogelprenten, nieuw werk uit de serie Street Spirits, en een aantal vogelprentontwerpstudies.

Locatie: Ontwerpfabriek, van Riebeeckweg 2, Hilversum.
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#printmaking #expositie #hilversum
Foto met een detail van ontwerpstudie voor de Baardman prent. Oranje lijf, zwarte veeg als vleugel met lichtblauwe accenten. Potloodmarkeringen en een onleesbare notitie. De tekst staat linksonder: elementair, expositie van prenten door royscholten in het ontwerpfabriekje, hilversum.
August 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Kijk, ik ben een thema!
Artikel in Natuurfotografie magazine
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#printmaking #birds #LEGOletterpress
Een opengeslagen tijdschrift op een houten tafel. Drie afbeeldingen van vogelprenten en tekst. Linksboven de titel 'Roy Scholten', met daar weer boven in het klein 'thema'.
August 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Gareth Phillips - photobooks, sculptures, installations - talk is now archived on our CFPR YouTube at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWTM...
Discussing his process of creating photobooks and how bringing the viewer into the book's space allows them to interact with the narratives of his 2D and 3D works.
Image of a large scale book installation of an imaginary planet Caligo. Side view, Caligo Photobook Sculpture, Edition III, Gareth Phillips, 400 x 300 cm, Aesthetica Art Award, York, UK.
August 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Kijk, ik ben een thema!
Artikel in Natuurfotografie magazine
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#printmaking #birds #LEGOletterpress
Een opengeslagen tijdschrift op een houten tafel. Drie afbeeldingen van vogelprenten en tekst. Linksboven de titel 'Roy Scholten', met daar weer boven in het klein 'thema'.
August 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Self-publishing is a power, it's a gift. You can put whatever you want into your little 'zines and minicomics, absolutely nobody can tell you no. Tell your story, don't worry if it's "good enough", make it anyway.
August 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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2025 is the year of the Common Kestrel in The Netherlands.

I made a print in LEGO Letterpress and will donate part of the proceeds from its sale to @sovonvogels.bsky.social to support their important work:

www.royscholten.nl/news/2025/co...
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#birds #birdArt #Kestrel #LEGOletterpress #printmaking
Photo of a framed, stylized image of a kestrel, printed on gray paper. The bird sits with its back to us, looking to the left. The head is gray with light cheeks and a slightly darker stripe below the eye. The back is reddish brown with black spots. The wingtips are black, tapering to a point and just crossing over the gray tail, which also ends in black. There's a pencil lying on the left side for indication of scale: 40 x 30 cm.
August 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM