On this one day workshop you will learn how to use the tools, materials and techniques to get started in bookbinding. 

You’ll make books from scratch to take away with you using methods such as pamphlet stitch, concertina books and Japanese stab binding, and you will gain some knowledge to keep making books at home.

Bookbinding is great for creating notebooks, sketchbooks, albums or books which are art objects in themselves.

Learn how to create embossed and debossed patterns onto paper to create subtle imagery.

This taster session explores embossing techniques to produce subtle images on paper. The process uses no ink but creates raised and textured areas on paper using a range of different found materials. You will discover how to soak and use a range of papers to create embossed pieces using our traditional etching presses in the workshop.

Explore screen printing onto blank tote bags and t-shirts. This one day workshop will cover;

Preparing imagery for screen printing,

Coating & exposing screens,

Mixing inks,

Screen printing methods,

Heat setting/fixing inks to make them washable,

You’ll come away from the session with some finished products with your own design screen printed onto them and a whole lot of knowledge to continue with your own projects.

Spend a day exploring the jigsaw method of linocut to create an edition of multi-colour prints.

Printing a linocut jigsaw style is an easy way to print a design in multiple colours. You cut the lino block into pieces, ink them up separately, then put the lino block back together to print.

Explore the beautiful photographic process of cyanotype to create your own cyan-blue prints.

You will learn how to produce a set of cyanotypes where thin objects or acetates are placed directly onto specially-coated paper and then exposed to UV light. When these objects are removed and the paper is washed with water a blue image remains. You will also learn how to use a variety of effects called toning, intensifying and reducing which alters the blue-ness of the prints.

On this evening taster session you will make a series of prints using the intaglio printing process of drypoint etching. You will learn how to use drypoint etching tools on plastic and aluminium sheets, oil based inks and our two etching printing presses in the workshop. At the end of the session you will have a series of similar, but increasingly more complex, prints.

Explore the fun and accessible artform of zine making and produce your own small zine booklets using screen printing techniques.

On this one day workshop you will use a variety of hand-drawn, collaged and digital imagery to create your own zine designs. These will be translated into positives to expose onto screen and then you’ll print a cut and fold zine using a single sheet of A3 paper.

Explore printmaking using tetra pak and recycled materials to create beautiful intaglio prints using drypoint and collograph methods.

On this taster session you will experiment with mark making on recycled tetra pak and packaging using a variety of different tools such as dry point needles, craft knives, and roulette wheels.

You will learn how to use our traditional etching presses in the workshop, how to prepare soaked paper and how to transfer your chosen design onto the Tetra Pak.

Explore the exciting process of Gelli printing on this taster session.

Learn and develop your skills and confidence in using a range of media such as charcoal, pencil and graphite to create drawn portraits, working from reference images.

You will then experiment with monoprinting using a technique in which the inked up plate is drawn into and partially wiped away, creating light and dark areas (chiaroscuro) before making prints of your portraits.

The workshop will be taught in a step by step way with tutor advice and guidance.