Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th August 2022 10am – 4pm Your tutor: Susie Turner This two-day course will introduce you to printmaking with Solarplate (photo-polymer) Etching, exploring the process of printing with light-sensitive plates that have been exposed to sunlight or an artificial source of UV...More
Tuesday 9th August 2022 10-3pm Come and get your hands inky and your creativity flowing in this mid-week taster session workshop which will introduce you to the technique of screen-printing with stencils. Stencil screen printing is a relatively quick and accessible printing process. Offering great s...More
Saturday 23rd July 2022 11-4pm Your tutor: Kirstie Williams Explore a range of colours using vegetable and plant dyes such as turmeric, madder, onion skins and logwood on this one day natural dyeing workshop. During the session, you will learn about using dyes to dye cottons, silk & wool and wil...More
Saturday 2nd July 2022 11am – 3pm Your tutor: Rachel Richardson Come and get your hands inky and your creativity flowing in this taster session workshop which will introduce you to the technique of lino print. Lino is a traditional relief technique where the surface of a linoleum block is carved awa...More
Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th June 2022 11am – 5pm Your tutor: Scarlette Averley 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...More
Saturday 11th June 2022 10-5pm Your tutor: Kate Desforges Famously used by Picasso in his etchings, sugarlift is a process which, when combined with aquatint, enables a broad range of painterly marks and tonal values to be created on a metal plate. It can be used on its own or in-combination with ot...More
Evening workshop : Thursday 9th June 2022 6pm – 9pm Your tutor : Cath Brooke An ‘intaglio’ printmaking process; drypoint uses a sharp tool to scratch marks into the surface of a Perspex plate. A print is taken from ink which is held within these marks. A great introductory technique for those intere...More
Saturday 30th April and Sunday 1st May 2022 10am-4pm A weekend, two day introduction to various approaches to working in colour with intaglio printing (chine collé, coloured inks, aquatint and post-colouring). As well as looking in focus at a variety of artists and investigating their methodologies,...More
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