Monoprints Taster Day

Make to most of colour and texture to produce a wide range of prints in which you can use natural and found materials. Work on perspex or Truegrain to achieve painterly effects. The fee for Taster Days includes basic materials. Additional materials are on sale at very reasonable prices.

£55

Carl Borges: Collagraphs

Collagraphs are wonderfully textured prints that are produced without the chemicals needed for etching. Instead, the plate is made by glueing textured materials to a cardboard base. The plate can then be linked in a variety of ways to produce textured monochrome or beautifully coloured prints. Carl Borges has been a printmaker for twenty years...

Emma Buckmaster: Photo Etching

Learn how to transfer an image on acetate to an etching plate. With this flexible method, use drawings, collage and photographs, or make a starting point for traditional etching. You will learn all stages from preparing images to etching and printing the plate. As well as demonstrating printmaking and exhibiting widely, Emma has been a...

Gainsborough’s House & Rural Coffee Caravan

Acton Village Hall 14 Daniels Close, Acton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Gainsborough’s House and Rural Coffee Caravan are working together to promote happy and healthy lives through a series of art workshop and coffee mornings offering support and advice for the elderly. The workshops are particularly aimed at people living in rural isolation who would like to spend a morning of creative activity in a warm...

Wood Engraving with Anne Desmet RA

Learn the art of wood engraving from a recognised expert in the field. As well as fine line engraving on end-grain boxwood, Anne will show hand burnishing on Japanese papers, printing with a press and the creative possibilities of collage using wood engraved prints and unusual printed papers. Anne is a specialist in wood engravings,...

Monotypes to Photopolymer with Susan Jones

A workshop looking at the possibilities of found objects in print. Explore and experiment with Monotype, Photopolymer and Hybrid printmaking. Take unique Monotype through to a Photopolymer plate, a safe, light sensitive medium enabling both relief and intaglio from your monotypes, to create editions. A broad spectrum of technical possibilities, with plenty of scope for...

Etching with Jason Hicklin

This course is now fully booked. Reserves only Exploring all aspects of intaglio etching, including softground, hardground, and sugarlift acquatint, Jason actively fosters creative results and professional practice in his popular workshop. Jason creates beautiful atmospheric etchings based on the British landscape and is an enthusiast for all aspects of etching. Trained at Central St...

Screenprinting with Annabel Ridley

Explore screen printing with photo stencils. Work on different scales and surfaces and enjoy colour, text and image. Create an exciting visual language with mark making and layering. These techniques are compatible with digital processes and are rapid, safe and fun to use. Annabel studied at St. Martin’s and Camberwell Schools of Art. Her own...

Lithography with Colin Gale

Lithography is often thought of as the closest printmaking technique to painting and drawing because of its direct mark-making. Working on stone, zinc plate or aluminium photo plate, the technique is taught in easy to follow stages. Students are able to work on several images during the course using their own reference. Colin directs the...

Drawing on Lino with Peter Brown

Explore the myriad possibilities of versatile lino on this comprehensive course. Illustrative or abstract, mono or multiblock, your project will develop from a strong basis of drawing. You will be encouraged to experiment at every stage as you develop your own creative approach to produce original prints. Peter is a printmaker with a background in...

Life Drawing Group – formerly at Gainsborough’s House

The Jetty Quay Lane, Sudbury

The Life Drawing Group has re-located to The Jetty, Quay Lane, CO10 2AN. The Jetty is the single story cream building next to the garage. There should be plenty of parking available in The Quay car park opposite. The drawing group is held on the first Saturday of every month from 10-4pm. Cost £18 Dates...

Taster Day: Christmas card making workshop

The Print Workshop Gainsborough's House , 46 Gainsborough Street , Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Learn linocut and monoprinting while making bespoke Christmas cards in our Christmas card making workshop! Join us for some creative seasonal fun at the Gainsborough's House Print Workshop this December. You will learn how to make a simple linocut and/or how to monoprint with stencils and textured materials. We will be working on a small...

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