Thursday 28th April 2022 6pm – 9pm Lino etching is a relief printing process that uses caustic soda paste to etch into lino blocks. This technique can be a good addition to traditional cut lino. You will experiment with mark-making through the use of simple ‘resists’, a way of protecting areas of yo...More
Weekend course Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th April 2022 11 – 5pm Letterpress is usually used to create multiple items, whereas a monoprint is a one off and can be a texture or mark made with ink, an ink knife, a block of type or a found object, (among others). These monoprints can then be combined w...More
Weekend Course Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd April 2022 10 – 4pm This fun, hands-on course will cover the whole screen-printing process – from preparing images and exposing them onto screens using the photo-emulsion process, to printing and fixing your designs using water-based, washable inks. Texti...More
Evening workshop : Thursday 31st March 2022 18:00 – 21:00 Ink can be added or wiped off in certain areas, and a print is then taken from the plate. Multiple plates can be printed in register to achieve exciting layered compositions. Learners will experiment with using inks, paintbrushes, stencils an...More
ONLINE COURSE – via Zoom Saturday 19th March 2022 10am – 12:30pm Explore the relief printing process of linocut from the comfort of your own home with the guidance of artist and printmaker Kirstie Williams in this online introductory workshop. This zoom session is ideal for complete beginners in lin...More
Weekend course Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th May 2022 11 – 5pm During the course you will have the option to work with a selection of wood and lead type in a range of typefaces and sizes. We have an 8 x 5” Adana press for printing small work, and a large Imperial platen press for printing larger woo...More
Christmas Craft and Gift Fair! Craft and Gift Fair. Lots of unique items are sold. The fairs run in all four room at the Town Hall. We have a one way system around the rooms, allowing for social distancing. Everyone is asked to complete Track and Trace and to wear a mask (unless excluded). It is a v...More
Creative England is hosting a two-day online Bootcamp to provide in-depth and practical guidance to help artists manage their finances, tackle debt and plan for growth. 'Financing Creativity - How to Manage Your Money' will help attendees to get their finances back on track. The two day camp will co...More
Sunday 7th March 2021 11am – 5pm Working with a number of plates of different sizes and shapes you will experiment with mark making and building up surfaces on aluminium. You will use traditional scrapers and drypoint needles along with sanding and more innovative mark making approaches. The plates...More
Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th February 2021 11am – 5pm Over the course of a weekend, learners will be guided through the reduction linocut method and colour blend inking techniques. Reduction linocut involves cutting away the surface of one lino block in stages and printing each stage, layer by laye...More
Saturday 28th March 2020 11am – 5pm Come and spend the day with print-maker Jonathan Lawes and learn how to work playfully with screen print, developing and layering abstract forms to create bold, graphic compositions in a personal colour palette. During the workshop you will be guided through colou...More
Weekend workshop Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th February 2020 10am – 4pm Join artist Scarlette Averley for this immersive weekend course exploring linocut printing. Learners will be guided through the reduction linocut method, and colour blend inking techniques. Reduction linocut involves cutting away...More
Weekend course Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th March 2020 10am – 4pm Description Spend a weekend learning screen printing in our professionally equipped workshop with artist and printmaker Clare Caulfield. Learn how to translate hand-drawn designs and photographs into multi-coloured screen prints on pap...More
Day workshop Saturday 7th March 2020 11 – 3pm Description Come and get your hands inky and your creativity flowing in a friendly, artistic environment! This session will introduce you to the technique of Collagraph print, a print process where an image is made from a plate collaged with different te...More