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Transform photos and prints into mixed media art that tells your story.

SELF-PACED | LIFETIME ACCESS | 8 WEEKS TUTOR SUPPORT | PRIVATE ONLINE COMMUNITY

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Step into the world of fine artist Sally Tyrie and reframe your perception of printmaking. Watch the video below!

Unlock your own unique creative narrative with Sally Tyrie. 

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Wall in Sally Tyries studio
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In Visual Narratives – Print, Paint and Stitch, you’ll:

  • Master distinctive printmaking – explore gel plate, photo litho and collagraph techniques, all without a press.

  • Transform inspiration into art – Dive into abstract art, experimenting with mark-making, collage, and stitch to craft your own distinctive visual stories.

  • Reimagine prints with stitch – add depth and meaning through expressive machine and hand stitching.

  • Step inside Sally’s world – learn directly from her painterly approach inspired by urban and coastal landscapes.

  • Create an ambitious body of work – build layered, considered pieces with guidance every step of the way.

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When you register your interest in Visual Narratives, you’ll:

 

  • Unlock a special five-part video series where you’ll get to know Sally and get her insights on mixed media, and being an artist.

  • Enjoy behind-the-scenes sneak peeks of Visual Narratives before it opens for enrolment.

  • Be notified when enrolment opens so you can secure your spot before the course fills up.

  • Experience a hands-on tutorial with Sally straight from her studio.

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Sally tyrie taking photos by the ocean
Sally tyrie at a printer
Sally tyrie overlooking the ocean
Sally Tyrie sketching by the ocean

Meet Sally Tyrie

Sally Tyrie works predominantly with printmaking, mixed media and photography, often preferring to select surface and media that makes connections with the theme and context. Method and meaning are often interconnected.

Approaches often involve deconstructing and assembling work using collage methods. In particular juxtaposing multilayered prints and drawings with machine or hand stitch as a way to examine, reinterpret and reimagine. Sally is drawn to techniques that allow ‘chance’ and ‘accident’ to adopt a more painterly and expressive approach.

Her method of working usually involves some form of initial research and investigation. For instance repeated visits to a location or historical research in a subject.  It is important to Sally that visual and historical research underpin and inform the group of work. The investigative journey is as much a part of the work as the end result.

Sally is especially drawn to subjects with historical and environmental interest and looks forward to sharing her research and investigative approach to mixed media printmaking with you. 

Course Modules

In each Visual Narratives module, you’ll learn the methodologies and philosophies that helped Sally become an internationally recognised mixed media artist. 

 
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MODULE 1: SETTING THE SCENE

This module covers the starting point of your project and will help you to identify areas and subjects of interest. You will look at how to get started and the environment you need to ensure you have an inspiring, positive and productive foundation for your project to ensure longevity and clarity of ideas.
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MODULE 2: FIELD RESEARCH

Join Sally as she shares with you some of her favourite places around Portsmouth to conduct field research to collect visual inspiration. Observe and capture imagery and learn the best ways of doing this. You will also, (where relevant) collect objects including flora, fragments, and textures. Your setting can either be rural or townscape.

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MODULE 3: MAKING A MARK

Collate, review, edit and present the imagery you have collected, then make selections from favourite visual sources. You will make notes about the ideas that are emerging and being formed from the last stage.

This module includes further reading around your subject to sharpen your ideas and covers basic photography editing tools using Microsoft Word and Photoshop so you can begin to reimagine your images into a more abstract version.

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MODULE 4: VISUAL REACTIONS AND EXPLORATIONS

This module is about changing and abstracting the original imagery and moving away from literal translations using gelli plate and mono-printing techniques with various media to create lively mark-making from collected sources and imagery.

You will look at viewpoints and create exciting, unusual and personal versions that make a new vision of your work. Through this mark-making process, you will also unpick and visually investigate the imagery and ideas you are interested in.

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MODULE 5: PRINTMAKING WITH PHOTOS

This module is about making prints that directly use and incorporate your gathered photography. It is an opportunity to learn the Photo Litho technique incorporating oil-based printmaking inks and see how it’s possible to use the photos more creatively by combining printmaking and photos together.
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MODULE 6: COLLOGRAPHY - WITHOUT A PRESS

Learn techniques and methods of collography. We will look at how to translate your imagery and ideas into beautiful collagraph plates and produce prints from these plates. You’ll be encouraged to make lots of small plates to fully explore the marks, patterns, lines and textures you have gathered. Sally covers the tools, equipment and papers needed, including ways to mix colours to achieve your desired outcome.

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MODULE 7: PRINT STUDIO

Join Sally on a special print-making studio tour and demonstration of the best practices when working in a professional print studio.

Filmed at the Omega Center in Portsmouth, Sally demonstrates how to print collographs and photo litho so you can see the results from working with a large press.

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MODULE 8: REFLECTIONS & CONSIDERATIONS

This module begins with reflections and considerations of what you have created. We will then work on the imagery to further abstract, exploring book-making techniques, laying and juxtapositions using collage.

This is a time for quiet reflection as you decide how to develop your work into a personal progression. Here Sally offers an opportunity and encourages you to critique and examine your work

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MODULE 9: BUILD A CONSISTENT BODY OF WORK

Having selected media and work to take into further development –you will work with these prints and collaged papers to create more resolved art. You will also consider the format and surface you work with. 

Take further steps to identify the shape, scale and number of pieces to create. Will it be a series of works or ‘one-offs’ with different results?

Sally demonstrates how to make your own tray frame from a repurposed book cover and how she incorporates stitch into her multilayered pieces.

Helpful FAQs
Have another question? We’re here to help! Please contact the Take Two team at support@fibreartstaketwo.com

Enrolment will open on 26 September 2025.

Enrolment in Visual Narratives will be...

AUD $599
USD $419
GBP £309
EUR €359
NZD $659
CAD $569

If you prefer, we will also have two and five month payment plans available.

Note: the prices above are indicative and may be adjusted according to exchange rates at the time the course is open for enrolment.

If you’d like to purchase supplies ahead of time, Sally has suggested the following supplies:

Where possible, we always recommend using and repurposing your current supplies instead of purchasing more.

Not at all. This course was created for creatives who want to watch in their own time, hit pause, re-watch, take a break, and then return for more! We know life sometimes does a pivot – you might revisit a year or two later!

While you will receive live support during the first eight weeks of enrolment, there is no set schedule to complete this course. Plus, you’ll have all the material for life!

“Before the pandemic I could not have imagined taking an online art course, but now I am a complete convert. The freedom to take your time and disappear down your own rabbit hole is such a joy!” Wendy G.

As many as you’re comfortable with! One to two hours per week will have you keeping pace with the content of Sally’s Q&A sessions, but you can’t fall behind, and you won’t miss out on anything if you take the course at a slower pace.

Sally and the Take Two Team will be there to support you during the first eight weeks of enrolment, but you have lifetime access to all course materials.

Sally will be available in your private student community group on Facebook during the live tutor interaction period. For your course, this period will be between 3 October and 28 November 2025.

At this stage, we choose to host our student community groups on Facebook as it’s a free, accessible platform that allows ease of communication for both students and tutors.

To ensure an inclusive experience, we live stream our Q&A sessions through YouTube and send regular updates via email for those unable to create a Facebook account.

We also have multiple moderators actively engaged within the group to ensure our communities remain safe and welcoming learning environments.

This community is not compulsory, but it’s highly recommended – and our students love it!

“FATT have put together this fabulous format that nurtures the interactions among us. I didn’t even do Facebook before!” – Chris C.

That’s okay – you don’t need to be a tech whiz to enjoy our online art courses!

Our students regularly report (sometimes with much relief 😉) how easy it is to use our online learning platform. We also take great pride in our top-notch customer service. We are always just a message away if you need support.


Absolutely. Our course content is fully responsive, so you can access your course wherever you feel most comfortable – your computer, phone, or tablet. All you need is an internet connection.

Because we have students from all around the world, we have set up geolocation to accommodate your local currency where we can. We currently accept USD, AUD, GBP, Euro, CAD and NZD… with more to come! If your currency wasn’t mentioned, your bank will still automatically convert it to your local currency once the charge goes through.

(On the topic of being international, the Take Two Team is based in Australia – which is why you’ll see spellings like fibre, realise and enrol, and none of us are scared of spiders or snakes!).

You can post your questions about the course in our private Facebook group; either someone from the community, Take Two or Sally herself can help you.

If you have more technological questions or are unable to join the student group, please don’t hesitate to contact support@fibreartstaketwo.com.


“I am so glad I found FATT. Everything is so well put together and the support is wonderful.” Jennifer H.

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