Evening workshops
These workshops take place on Wednesdays from 7pm to 10pm.
One evening workshops
Block printing on fabric
Workshop leader: Catherine Walsh
In this one-off 3-hour workshop you will carve your design onto a lino block and use fabric inks to print a repeat pattern on fabric in the style of traditional woodblock printing.
Cost: £30 per person (concessions £24)
One evening session on the following dates:
- 24 February
- 27 October BOOK NOW
Longer evening courses
Introduction to screenprinting
Workshop leader: Lydie Gallais
On the first evening you will be printing straight away and planning your design using cut-out techniques. You will learn how to mix inks to get the right consistency for best results. On the second evening, you will learn how to expose and coat a screen using photo emulsion. You will then expose the image you brought, maybe a drawing, a photograph, or a newspaper image, photocopied onto paper or acetate. On the third evening you will print your image using a variety of colours and register your image.
This workshop is for beginners and for people who need to refresh their memory with screenprinting. At the end of the three weeks you should be able to print onto paper and be confident about it. A lot of fun.
Cost: £77 per person (concessions £60)
Three evening sessions on the following dates:
- 13, 20, 27 January fully booked!
Screenprinting on fabric
Workshop leader: Catherine Walsh
In this 3-evening course you will learn how to expose an image as a photo-stencil on a screen, mix fabric inks and practise screenprinting on fabric to accomplish your chosen project – for example, printing onto t-shirts, printing a length of fabric for use in fashion or accessories, or printing a design on fabric to make household products like cushions, curtains, etc.
Cost: £77 per person (concessions £60)
Three evening sessions on the following dates:
- 3, 10, 17 November BOOK NOW
Experimental linocuts
Workshop leader: Wuon Gean Ho
From the dramatic bold lines of political woodcut prints, to the multicoloured joyous lines in Picasso's still life prints, relief prints allow for an instant freedom of expression. Learn how to make relief prints in black and white, and learn how to print them in different ways to get exciting effects. The following evenings try out reduction printing and multi block printing for making colour images. Come prepared to be inspired by a wide range of print art, to experiment and have fun!
Cost: £77 per person (concessions £60)
Three evening sessions on the following dates:
- 17, 24, 31 March fully booked!
- 17, 24 Nov, 1 December BOOK NOW
Introduction to screenprinting
Workshop leader: Chiharu Kaido
This course is recommended for those with little or no experience of silk-screen printing. Participants will be taught the basic techniques of operating an exposure unit and using a flat-bed press, via hands-on sessions where they produce images of their own choosing (or indeed design). By mastering these basic skills participants will be able not only to organically develop the entire array of printing skills while learning how to avoid accidents. Any black and white (including half-toned) images or hand drawings for post cards, business cards, birthday presents etc. up to A4 size are welcome to be brought for use as source material for printing.
Cost: £77 per person (concessions £60)
Three evening sessions on the following dates:
- 14, 21, 28 July fully booked!
Photopolymer
Workshop leader: Richard Roberts
PThe course covers the essential techniques and skills for photo-etching using photopolymer plates. Each student will make and print their own photo-etching plate. This workshop will give you the skills to progress on to any level of photo-etching.
Cost: £77 per person (concessions £60)
Three evening sessions on the following dates:
- 18, 25 August and 1 September fully booked!
Introduction to etching
Workshop leader: Victoria Browne* or Nick Morley**
Four evening sessions
In this workshop you will work on one etching plate, taking it through several processes under the guidance of an experienced tutor. You will make a print at each stage of the process. You will learn how to make line drawings using hard ground, add textures and patterns using soft ground and work with aquatint to add tones.
This workshop uses zinc plates, etched with nitric acid.
- Session 1: Introduction to materials and preparing a plate with hard ground
- Session 2: Etching and printing
- Session 3: Preparing and printing a soft ground
- Session 4: Applying and printing a rosin aquatint
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
Note: This workshop uses some solvents and nitric acid.
Cost: £99 (concessions £78)
Four evening sessions on the following dates:
- 3, 10, 10 and 24 February 2010** fully booked!
PLEASE NOTE: 3 February session cancelled - 5, 12, 19 and 26 May 2010* fully booked!
Screenprinting
Workshop leader: Nick Morley
In this workshop you will create a multi-colour screenprint on paper using the photo stencil method under the guidance of an experienced tutor. The workshop will cover preparing and coating your screen, exposing and washing your screen and printing with water-based inks. You will learn how to accurately register a multi-layered image, how to plan your design and how to layer different colours.
- Session 1: Introduction to materials and printing using paper cut-out stencils
- Session 2: Preparing and printing a photostencil from a photocopy or drawing
- Session 3: Multi-layer printing using photostencils. Registering multiple layers
- Session 4: Consolidation and experimentation
Cost: £99 per person (concessions £78)
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
Four evening sessions on the following dates:
- 3, 10, 17, 24 March fully booked!
Introduction to screenprinting
Workshop leader: Lydie Gallais
On the first evening you will be printing straight away and planning your design using cut-out techniques. You will learn how to mix inks to get the right consistency for best results. On the second evening, you will learn how to expose and coat a screen using photo emulsion. You will then expose the image you brought, maybe a drawing, a photograph, or a newspaper image, photocopied onto paper or acetate. On the third evening you will print your image using a variety of colours and register your image. On the fourth evening, you will be carrying on with your project using registration. I will also answer any questions about screenprinting and recapitulate what we've learnt in the previous sessions.
This workshop is for beginners and for people who need to refresh their memory about screenprinting. At the end of the 4 weeks you should be able to be very confident about printing any kind of image. A course packed with info and a lot of fun.
Cost: £99 per person (concessions £78)
Four evening sessions on the following dates:
- 8, 15, 22, 29 September fully booked!
- 24 November and 1, 8, 15 December BOOK NOW
Advanced landscape linocut
Workshop leader: Aiste Ramunaite
In this exciting workshop you will work with 34×26.5cm size lino and a cut-out cardboard stencil to create landscapes in four different moods from a single sketch, drawing, photo or just an idea. The process is intense but easy and full of fun. By fusing different linocut techniques you can achieve delicate and unusual results.
- Session 1: Printing the background with medium added to relief ink
- Session 2: Printing cardbord stencils and transfering forms to lino
- Session 3: Printing using linocut reduction, lino monoprint technique
- Session 4: Printing additional features, details, variations
Some drawing and printmaking experience would be most welcome, but not necessary.
Note: this workshop uses only water washable ink.
Cost: £99 per person (concessions £78)
Four evening sessions on the following dates:
- 21, 28 July, 4, 11 August BOOK NOW
Experimental collagraphs
Workshop leader: Amanda Taylor
In this 4-week workshop, you will learn how to make a collagraph plate by collaging different textures which will be glued together on a thin board base, creating a low relief. The plate will then be varnished to seal the materials. Inking the plate uses scrim, brushes and rollers for different effects and to build up colour on the various levels of the collagraph plate before it is printed using an etching press. There should be an opportunity to experiment with applications of carborundum, masking techniques and the use of chine colle to add colour and depth to your prints.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
Cost: £99 per person (concessions £78)
Four evening sessions on the following dates:
- 7, 14, 21, 28 April fully booked!
T-shirt and fabric printing
Workshop leader: Ellie Curtis
A 4-week workshop learning how to screenprint onto t-shirts and fabric. Bring your own images, drawings and designs and turn them into screenprints onto t-shirts, bags and fabric. Over the four evenings we'll be covering how to prepare a screen for printing, how to print onto t-shirts, make repeat patterns onto fabric and use more than one colour in a design.
Suitable for complete beginners or those with previous screenprinting knowledge but feel they need refreshing.
Cost: £99 per person (concessions £78)
Four evening sessions on the following dates:
- 5, 12, 19, 26 May fully booked!
- 16, 23, 30 June, 7 July fully booked!
Introduction to designing and printing onto textiles
Workshop leader: Catherine Walsh
In this 5-evening course, drawing on guidelines in the book "Designing and Printing Textiles" by June Fish, you will collect materials in a sketchbook, be given a brief overview of textile design history, interpret your research by making a mood board, translate an image into a repeat pattern and make samples of block printed and screenprinted fabric using your designs.
Cost: £120 per person (concessions £96)
Five evening sessions on the following dates:
- 31 March, 7, 14, 21, 28 April fully booked!
Introduction to printmaking
Workshop leader: Victoria Browne* or Nick Morley**
Each week a new technique is introduced with the aim that you will be able to use this experience to experiment further with these processes independently after the course or undertake further training. The techniques covered are as follows (not necessarily in order):
- Session 1: Drypoint (a similar technique to etching but without acid)
- Session 2: Hard ground etching
- Session 3: Soft ground etching
- Session 4: Aquatint
- Session 5: Linocut
- Session 6: Screenprint (paper stencils)
- Session 7: Screenprint (photo-stencil)
Etching will be using zinc with nitric acid. Weeks 1-5 will involve using oil-based inks and solvents (white spirit and meths).
This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
Cost: £160 per person (concessions £135)
Seven evening sessions on the following dates:
- 6, 13, 20, 27 January and 3, 10, 17 February* fully booked!
- 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 June and 7, 14 July ** fully booked!
- 29 Sept, 6, 13, 20, 27 Oct and 3, 10 Nov** BOOK NOW
| Evening workshop calendar Click on the name of a workshop for more information Red italic indicates that a workshop is fully booked | |
|---|---|
| June 2010 | |
| 2 | Introduction to printmaking session 1 |
| 9 | Introduction to printmaking session 2 |
| 16 | Introduction to printmaking session 3 |
| T-shirt and fabric printing session 1 | |
| 23 | Introduction to printmaking session 4 |
| T-shirt and fabric printing session 2 | |
| 30 | Introduction to printmaking session 5 |
| T-shirt and fabric printing session 3 | |
| July 2010 | |
| 7 | Introduction to printmaking session 6 |
| T-shirt and fabric printing session 4 | |
| 14 | Introduction to printmaking session 7 |
| Introduction to screenprinting session 1 | |
| 21 | Advanced landscape linocut session 1 |
| Introduction to screenprinting session 2 | |
| 28 | Advanced landscape linocut session 2 |
| Introduction to screenprinting session 3 | |
| August 2010 | |
| 4 | Advanced landscape linocut session 3 |
| 11 | Advanced landscape linocut session 4 |
| 18 | Photopolymer session 1 |
| 25 | Photopolymer session 2 |
| September 2010 | |
| 1 | Photopolymer session 3 |
| 8 | Introduction to screenprinting session 1 |
| 15 | Introduction to screenprinting session 2 |
| 22 | Introduction to screenprinting session 3 |
| 29 | Introduction to screenprinting session 4 |
| Introduction to printmaking session 1 | |
| October 2010 | |
| 6 | Introduction to printmaking session 2 |
| 13 | Introduction to printmaking session 3 |
| 20 | Introduction to printmaking session 4 |
| 27 | Introduction to printmaking session 5 |
| Block printing on fabric | |
| November 2010 | |
| 3 | Introduction to printmaking session 6 |
| Screenprinting on fabric session 1 | |
| 10 | Introduction to printmaking session 7 |
| Screenprinting on fabric session 2 | |
| 17 | Experimental linocuts session 1 |
| Screenprinting on fabric session 3 | |
| 24 | Experimental linocuts session 2 |
| Introduction to screenprinting session 1 | |
| December 2010 | |
| 1 | Experimental linocuts session 3 |
| Introduction to screenprinting session 2 | |
| 8 | Introduction to screenprinting session 3 |
| 15 | Introduction to screenprinting session 4 |