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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
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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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#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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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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Last Thursday I cleaned the gear racks of our VanderCook proofing press. Then I refined the letter and word spacing of this poster I'm working on. Picture taken before making those refinements. 🙃
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#letterpress #typography #woodtype
Photo of four lines of large wood type locked up in the bed of a proofing press.
October 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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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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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
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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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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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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
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Falco tinnunculus
Torenvalk
Common Kestrel

230 mm x 305 mm
2025
Edition: 25

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#birdArt #printmaking #legoletterpress
Stylized print of a falcon seen on its back, looking to the left. Brown red back with black spots. Gray tail with black tip. Gray head with light throat and cheek.
July 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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A spread from the book Print & Play. The Art of LEGO Letterpress.

tacit.studio/print-play-t...

I'm working on a followup book about the 50 birds project!

And another one about the why and how of this custom printmaking technique!
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#printmaking #books #LEGOLetterpress
Photo of an open book, standing. Text in two columns on the left page. An annoted design of a stylized bird print on the right. Underneath it a quote in Dutch, translated: Designing, building, printing fifty times over. A thousand prints in total.
March 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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I have a zine from 2018 collecting examples of this. Made by Aliza Elkin.
Spread of a small magazine. Left a black and white photo of partially gloved fingers in the bottom of the page and a small text column titled Addendum. Right a similar image but in color. Two hands keep open a book for digitising it. Cover of a printed zine titled Hand job. A zine about mass digitization, labor, error and art. Hand job uses colors and type that resembles the google logo. The image is that of a hand with pink finger gloves pressing down on a book page.
March 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Mijn Print & Play deelnemers zijn zeer getalenteerd.

bildung.royscholten.nl/nl/posts/202...

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#printmaking #monoprint #letterpress
Abstracte monoprint op A5 papier met brede diagonale streken. Een wit vierkant bovenin dekt de onderliggende grijze druk af, maar de circel daarbinnen laat die juist weer zien. De tekst I can't find your face, in groene inkt gedrukt op een abstract donkergrijze monoprint met witte uisparingen aan de linkerkant.
February 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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An abstract print from a couple of years ago.

#monoprint #calligraphicSpace #printmaking
Photo of a small abstract print. Two geometric, symbol-like figures. The sandy yellow colored pointy one overlaps the more curved light blue one. The background is a mix of darker solid areas and gestural strokes in ligter tones of orange and blue.
February 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I'm working on a book with all 50 bird prints + trials, errors, process steps, childhood memories & more!

Subscribers are first to know, so if this sounds interesting to you, I hope you'll join my mailing list. It really helps:

royscholten.nl/newsletter/

Thank you!

#printmaking #book #art #birds
Mockup of a white book cover against a gray background. On the cover a light off-white square image with a stylized print of a Reed Bunting singing with open beak. Below that the text 50 vogels (50 birds), Roy Scholten.
February 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM