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PAPER LITHOGRAPHY ON FABRIC FULL

Friday 26 September

Using basic photocopies as a printmaking plate, explore paper lithography for the day on fabric.

Get to grips with this flexible process and print on a variety of textile surfaces. Create a stash of samples to use in your fabric projects.

Cost £100 to include most materials. Bring black and white photocopies. 

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COLLAGRAPHS USING PLASTER AND TEXTURE. Includes viscosity inking. 3 PLACES LEFT

11-12 October

There are many ways to make a collagraph plate. This workshop will focus on using found textures pressed leaves, flowers, rubber stamps and textured wall papers, pressed into plaster to create textural plates. Together with glue to create tonal contrasts explore this flexible plate making process. You will also learn several ways to ink the plates culminating in viscosity inking. After 2 days you will have a series of exciting and experimental prints.

Cost £200 to include most materials

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COLLAGRAPHS OUT OF THE BOX

15-16 November

Spend an energetic weekend making and printing collagraph plates made with recycled packaging and glue. Explore your consumerism through print. Once the plates are made we will explore several inking techniques including over printing and chine collee.

Cost £200 to include most materials

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GELLI PLATE TECHNIQUES & PRINTING ON FABRIC 1 PLACE LEFT

Friday 28 November

Get to grips with your Gelli plate and create a range of collage papers and printed textiles to use in future creative projects.

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

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COLOUR & LINO PRINTING. NEW FOR 2025

29- 30 November

Spend 2 days extending your lino printing skills using the reduction lino and multi block colour separation printing technique. Learn to design the image, print the lino and register 3 colours. On the second day learn about off setting and registration with a 3 block print. I can guarantee you will take home several prints.

Cost £220 to include most materials.

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2026

SKETCHBOOK MASTER CLASS. Includes paper lithography. 3 PLACES LEFT

23-25 January

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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GELLI PLATE MONO PRINTING

Friday 6 February.

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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PRINTMAKING MASTER CLASS. FULL

27 February- 1 March

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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COLLAGRAPHS ON BOTANICAL CONTACT PRINTS 

18-19 April

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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 "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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