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
Reflection exhibition Open from Tuesday - Friday 10am - 4pm and Saturdays 11am - 5pm. Free entry. A collection of more than 40 works exploring the theme 'Reflection'.
The Art of the Athlete - The exhibition featuring art by Athletes and inspired by sports. “The Art of the Athlete” exhibition will promote art by current and former athletes and raise money for The Ron Pickering Memorial Fund and Lloyd Cowan Bursary to support athletes and coaches. The exhibition wi...More
Saturday 7th May 2022 11am – 3pm During the workshop you will explore basic collagraph methods using a range of textured papers, vinyls, glues, etc. Textures are added to the plate (mountboard) much like a collage. These collaged pieces can then be inked up to create collagraph print. Emphasis will...More
the ‘Past & Present’ presentation on the Big Screen is scheduled to start 1st May and will show daily at 12.30pm until the end of June.
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
This will be Vicky's second art exhibition at The Station Gallery, Richmond showcasing a mix of original paintings, prints and cards of her work to date. Her love of animals and wild places again shines through in her collection of acrylic paintings and pencil sketches. Many of the landscape pieces...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
Working with a group of contemporary artists in Leeds, creating visual responses to the Kidson Collection of traditional folk music, which has led to an exciting range of work, on view in Room 700 of the Leeds Central Library.