2023 workshops
MIXED MEDIA SKETCHBOOK TECHNIQUES. Includes Gum Arabic transfer.
14-15 January
Kick start the new year with creativity. Using paper lithography 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.
An ideal workshop to kick start your creativity.
Cost £200 to include most materials
(Please bring strongly contrasting toner photocopies).
MONOPRINT MASTER CLASS
Friday 27 January
Take monoprint to the next creative level by using viscosity inking techniques. Spend the day creating a series of coloured images and understanding a little about ink science. Basic mono printing will also be covered.
Cost £100 to include most materials
COLLAGRAPH OUT OF THE BOX
4-5 February
Using packaging and being inspired by its quirky shapes, create a series of collagraph prints using this accessible substrate. The ultimate in recycle and reuse. Using glue and self adhesive shapes and to include chine collee and viscocity inking methods
Cost £200 to include most materials
GELLI PLATE MONO PRINTING
Friday 10 February FULL
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 £90 to include paper and paint. Bring your own Gelli Plate and roller.
PRINTMAKING MASTER CLASS
10-12 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 paper lithography to make a suite of hybrid prints.
10am - 4pm each day
Cost: £300 to include most materials
PAPER LITHOGRAPHY ON FABRIC
Friday 24 March
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.
COLLAGRAPH WITH A TEXTILE TWIST
22-23 April
Create simple, textural collagraph plates using glue and wall papers then print them onto a variety of textile surfaces. Make a fabric book of ideas and prints or pieces to stitch into to use in later textile projects.
Cost £200 to include most materials
MIXED MEDIA SKETCHBOOK MASTER CLASS. Includes Paper Lithography
12-14 May
Over 3 days you will fill up a sketch book, supplied as part of the workshop and explore your creativity. Learn how to beat that blank page syndrome that strikes us down as soon as we open a new sketch book. Learn how I develop my sketch book pages. This workshop will study mixed media techniques in further depth than the 2 day workshops held earlier in the year. Spend 3 days exploring personal imagery with light technical support.
10am - 4pm each day
Cost: £300 to include a sketch book, 21 x 10cm and most materials.
COLLAGRAPH WITH A BOTANICAL CONTACT PRINTED PAPER
20-21 May
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 £200 to include most materials
CYANOTYPE
1-2 JULY.
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, wet cyanotype and much more.
Cost £250 to include most materials
PRINTMAKING WITH NATURE. Includes Paper Lithography & making Joomchi
7-9 July
Over 3 days you will be working with nature as your inspiration. Day one will be all about making substrates, creating botanical contact printed paper with leaves and flowers and using these as the basis for sheets of Joomchi which is a Korean traditional felted paper. Day two will find you printing onto these surfaces using paper lithography and mono printing with delicate pressed leaves and flowers. Day three will be all about collage and making books to capture these precious natural samples. At the end of 3 days you will have a set of beautiful keep sakes to take home to demonstrate the new skills you have learnt.
10am - 4pm each day
Cost: £300 to include some materials.
"I am an artist using collagraph printmaking 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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