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23-25 January

SKETCHBOOK MASTER CLASS. Includes paper lithography. 1 PLACE LEFT

Kick start the New Year with creativity. Spend 3 days exploring the pages of a small sketchbook using ink, oil pastel, bleach, acrylic and paper lithography printmaking. Learn how to create personal sketch book pages. An ideal workshop to to refresh your creative practice.

Cost £320 to include a small sketchbook and most materials 

(Please bring strongly contrasting toner photocopies).

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Friday 6 February.

GELLI PLATE MONO PRINTING

Do you have a Gelli Plate and are looking for advanced techniques in using it? This one day workshop will cover a variety of transfer techniques using magazines and wax, together with layering and over printing.

Cost £100 to include paper and paint. Bring your own Gelli Plate and roller.​

 

27 February- 1 March

PRINTMAKING MASTER CLASS. FULL

This 3-day Master Class will cover 3 printmaking techniques and how to combine them. At the end of the course you will take home an artist’s book of your experiments for future reference. Over 3 days we will explore dry point, collagraph and lino to make a suite of hybrid prints.

10am - 4pm each day
Cost: £320 to include most materials

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18-19 April

COLLAGRAPHS ON BOTANICAL CONTACT PRINTS 

Make interesting substrates with botanical contact prints on paper and fabric. Leaf and rust marks in delicious natural tones act as a gentle background to intaglio prints made later in the workshop.

Using these interesting natural backgrounds print simply made collagraphs using glue and card. Add chine collee and blended inking to the techniques learnt in this busy weekend workshop.

Cost £230 to include most materials.

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25-26 April

Mixed Media Sketch book techniques. Includes paper lithography.

Using Gum Arabic and the humble black-and-white photocopy as your ‘plate’, you can make prints of photographic images. Together with a variety of mixed media techniques using ink, oil pastel, bleach and acrylic learn how to create personal sketch book pages and artist books.

Cost £200 to include most materials

(Please bring strongly contrasting toner photocopies and sketch books).

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FABRIC BOOK TO INCLUDE PAPER LITHOGRAPH

16-17 May

Using paper lithography, acrylic resist, mono print, stitching and stencilling to name just a few of the techniques covered, create several excitingly textural textile books. At the end of the workshop you will have created at least 2 fabric books exploring layering techniques using traditional and non traditional textile materials.

Cost £200 to include most materials​

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ARTIST BOOK WORKSHOP NEW FOR 2026

12-14 June

This is a 3 day workshop where you will explore making papers using Paper Lithography, stencilling and many other mixed media techniques. Then using this collection of papers to form a variety of book forms ending with a junk journal. Most materials will be provided, but it will be a great opportunity to get out those materials lurking in a draw and giving them a go.

Cost £320 to include most materials

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11-12 July

CYANOTYPE WEEKEND.

This intensive weekend will introduce you to the basic theory and practice of cyanotype on a variety of papers then show you how the colouring can be toned and changed to create one off imagery. Explore, basic cyanotype, double exposures and wet cyanotype. The weekend will stretch your thinking into the ways this process can be made your own and you will leave with a portfolio of samples and armed with all the information needed to take this process further.

10am - 4pm each day

Cost: £250 to include most materials

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25 September

DRY POINT WITH A COLLAGRAPH TWIST

This dry point technique has all the qualities of a traditional looking etching without the chemicals. Add a collagraph twist to the technique by adding tapes to create volume and tone to the image. Chine collee will also be explored.

Cost £100 to include most materials

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26-27 September

COLLAGRAPH WITH A LINO PRINT TWIST

Spend 2 days learning how to make collagraph plates using glue and wall papers printed together with a lino print feature. The workshop will cover registration of images, chine collee and a variety of inking techniques.

This is an ideal workshop for artists who want to extend their printmaking knowledge and beginners who want to learn some basic printmaking.

10am - 4pm each day

Cost £220 to include most materials

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9 October

GUM ARABIC TRANSFER PRINTING ON FABRIC

Create a stash of textile prints to embellish and develop at a later date. Using a black and white photocopy, transfer indelible images of drawings or text onto a variety of textile surface.

Cost £100 to include most materials

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17-18 October

COLLAGRAPH BASIC WITH A TEXTILE TWIST. 

Spend 2 days learning how to make collagraph plates using glue and wall papers. Basically collagraphs are collages sealed and inked like etching plates, this is a good starting point for those who have never made a collagraph before or artists who want to remind themselves of the basics. We will also experiment with printing onto fabric...so bring along your stash.

Cost £220 to include most materials

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7-8 November

MIXED MEDIA FABRIC BOOK

Using Paper Lithography, acrylic resist, mono print, stitching and stamping to name just a few of the techniques covered, create several excitingly textural textile books. At the end of the workshop you will have created at least 2 fabric books exploring layering techniques using traditional and non-traditional textile materials

Cost £220 to include most materials

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Friday 20 November

GELLI PLATE MASTER CLASS

Do you have a Gelli Plate and are looking for advanced techniques in using it? This one day workshop will cover a variety of transfer techniques using magazines and wax, together with layering and over printing.

Cost £100 to include paper and paint. Bring your own Gelli Plate and roller.

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COLLAGRAPH WITH A LINO PRINT TWIST. 

5-6 December

Spend 2 days learning how to make collagraph plates using glue and wall papers printed together with a lino print feature. The workshop will cover registration of images, chine collee and a variety of inking techniques.

This is an ideal workshop for artists who want to extend their printmaking knowledge and beginners who want to learn some basic printmaking.

Cost £250 to include all materials

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 "I am an artist using printmaking & mixed media to tell stories."

Additional Information

 

All costs include materials unless otherwise stated.

Places are not considered booked without the receipt of the full course cost.

Costs are none refundable or transferable.

All courses are suitable for beginners and experienced artists.

The weekend courses start at 10.00am till 4.00pm.

Bring a packed lunch. Tea and coffee are provided.

Printmaking is a messy business so old clothes and aprons are advised.

All course fees must be paid 1 week before the course start date. 

 

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