We have Fine Art Textiles and a huge variety of printmaking courses to offer including Lithography, Etching, Experimental Printmaking, Lino and Screenprinting. See below for term time and holiday courses.
Alternative Lithography
Unleash Your Creativity and Reimagine Printmaking Join us for a fresh take on traditional printmaking with a new class focused on Alternative Lithography, Hybrid Lino Relief, and Intaglio Techniques. Whether you're a seasoned printmaker or a beginner, this hands-on course will push the boundaries of your craft and open new possibilities for experiment and developing your practice.
Experimental Printmaking
An opportunity to explore varied printmaking techniques, each with different and exciting possibilities for mark making that you can add to your creative toolkit. This course will introduce and encourage experimentation with a range of techniques including monoprint, drypoint, collagraph and more. Suitable for those new to printmaking, or those wanting a refresher.
Fine Art Textiles
In the last decade the expressive skills of crafts and making have become valued as fine art practice. This course will allow students to work creatively with a broad range of materials and processes usually associated with textiles. It will provide an opportunity to explore and combine a variety of accessible techniques.
Intaglio and Relief Printmaking Workshop
Discover the creative possibilities of Intaglio & Relief Printmaking in this one day workshop at Putney School of Art and Design
Lino Printing (All Levels)
A print workshop where you will learn essential skills in lino cutting and printing. With an experienced printmaker guiding you through carving and printing your own block print using a relief press or hand-printing techniques.
Lithography
Lithography was invented 200 years ago by Senefelder as a means of printing his own manuscripts.
May Half Term – 2 Days Etching All Levels
For beginners and experienced students, covering the core processes of soft ground, hard ground and aquatint, through demonstrations.
May Half Term – Lino Printing Day
The course will cover the creation of your design, colour mixing and finishing to a professional standard whilst exploring relief printing using lino blocks in just one day.
May Half Term – Open Studio Etching
Open studio Printmaking sessions are available to those that already have experience of printing techniques
May Half Term – Painterly Screenprinting
Suitable for those who already have experience of screenprinting but want to bring a painterly depth to their screenprints using blends and handmade stencils created with TruGrain.
Open Studio Etching
Etching Open Studio sessions are available to those who already have some experience of etching techniques and are interested in developing their own projects.
Printmaking Etching (All levels)
Etching is an artistic discipline by which images can be created on metal using a variety of different processes, including the use of acid, then printed onto specialized printmaking papers. Multiple prints can be made from a plate to form a limited edition of work, each one of which is an ‘original.
Screenprinting (All levels)
Screenprinting is a method of making an image using stencils. These are attached to a mesh that is stretched over a frame. Using a squeegee, ink is pulled through the stencil to create an image. Screenprinting as a process is intrinsic to graphics, advertising and packaging.
Summer School – 2 Days Collagraph Printmaking Workshop
A two-day course where you will create collagraph plates using simple found materials, textured papers, glue, resins and more.
Summer School – 2 Days: Alternative Sustainable Etching (All Levels)
On this 2 day course you will explore alternative sustainable Etching processes.
Summer School – 2 Days: Experimental Painterly Etching
Suitable for those who already have basic experience of etching who want to explore painterly etching techniques and experiment with gestural and expressive mark-making in their prints.
Summer School – 2 Days: Introduction to Mokulito (Drawing, Surface & Transferable Print Practice)
Explore Mokulito, wood lithography, as a direct, tactile printmaking process rooted in drawing and material sensitivity. This intensive two-day course introduces a low-tox lithographic method ideal for artists seeking to expand their print and studio practice through layered thinking, surface experimentation and iterative image-making.
Summer School – 2 Days: Screenprinting Workshop (Beginners)
Screenprinting is a method of making an image by creating stencils on a screen and printing each one as a layer on paper or fabric. A print can be made up of several colour layers.
Summer School – 2 Days: Screenprinting Workshop (Intermediate/Advanced)
Screenprinting is a method of making an image by creating stencils on a screen and printing each one as a layer on paper or fabric. A print can be made up of several colour layers.
