We have a huge variety of printmaking courses to offer including Lithography, Etching and Screenprinting.
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.
Lino Printing (All Levels)
AÂ 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 – Collagraph Printmaking Day
A one-day course where you will create a collagraph plate using simple found materials, textured papers, glue, resins and more.
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 – Open Studio: Screenprinting
Open studio screenprinting sessions are available to those that already have experience of screenprinting and are interested in developing their own projects.
May Half Term – Printmaking for Young People 13-17 years
An enjoyable and challenging 2-day introduction to printing including lino and monoprinting.
Mixed Media: Painting & Printmaking
The course aims to explore a variety of printmaking and painting processes and combining them to create mixed media original artworks.
NEW Collagraph Printmaking
An exciting 5 week course where you will create collagraph plates using simple found materials, textured papers, glue, resins and more with time to really explore colours.
NEW 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.
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: Drawing & Printmaking from Sculpture
Using Sculpture as an observational starting point you will collect drawings to use as inspiration for printmaking. looking at the energy and gesture of monoprint and relief printmaking in general.Â
Summer School – 2 Days: Screenprinting Workshop (Beginners)
Screenprinting is a method of making an image using stencils and the process is intrinsic to graphics, advertising and packaging.
Summer School – 2 Days: Screenprinting Workshop (Intermediate/Advanced)
Screenprinting is a method of making an image using stencils and the process is intrinsic to graphics, advertising and packaging.
Summer School – 3 Days: Alternative Sustainable Etching (All Levels)
On this 3 day course you will explore alternative sustainable Etching processes.
Summer School – 3 Days: Screenprinting Workshop (Beginners)
Screenprinting is a method of making an image using stencils and the process is intrinsic to graphics, advertising and packaging.
Summer School – 3 Days: Screenprinting Workshop (Intermediate/Advanced)
Screenprinting is a method of making an image using stencils and the process is intrinsic to graphics, advertising and packaging.
