Leicester Print Workshop

Explore linocut with some creative twists! In this two day course you will learn basic lino cutting and experiment with caustic soda to add to the potential of the lino surface.

A unique artist-led course combining theory, practice and independent work to explore an expanded notion of printmaking.

Printmaking as a process is riddled with laws and rules – let’s rip up a few of these rules and make new ones through experimentation and play.

A day to experiment with printing textures from a wide range of fabrics. Using knitting, fine crochet, ribbons, weaving, jute, string, lace, and netting, we will make beautiful, delicate, and fierce embossed monoprints.

Learn how to transform a simple linocut design into a repeat pattern, creating a beautiful hand-printed piece of fabric. During the course you will be shown how to develop a basic design into a repeat pattern, then transfer, carve and handprint your linocut onto fabric.

Have your say and find your voice! This course gives an opportunity for young people to express ideas, thoughts and feelings as text, and print these using the workshop’s collection of wooden type.

Print Club is an opportunity to build your printmaking skills as part of a small friendly curious group.

Design your own birds, beasts and bugs and learn how to print them using paint and spongy rollers. Add textured detail by cutting blocks, to create bright colourful prints.

Bring your imagination to life and draw, print, cut and stick your imaginary beasts! You’ll learn how to print your own beastly designs using relief printing, colourful inks and rollers and get to take home large prints of your designs.

A fantastic way to explore a variety of printmaking techniques and get a good idea of what suits your printmaking taste.

A unique and immersive practical and theoretical course exploring colour, light and space in art with painter Satta Hashem.

Make spooktacular masks to celebrate Samhain / Hallowe’en…a great opportunity for kids and carers to have fun making and decorating masks with a fun spooky theme. Price includes up to 2 children and one adult. Family Friendly!

Make spooktacular masks to celebrate Samhain / Hallowe’en…a great opportunity for kids and carers to have fun making and decorating masks with a fun spooky theme. Price includes up to 2 children and one adult. Family Friendly!

This method of lino printing uses more than one piece of lino to create multi coloured images. Each block is layered up to print a different colour so is more forgiving than reduction linocut.

On this beginner course in photo etching, participants will learn how to transfer a photo onto zinc, etch the plate surface, ink and print.

This two-day course is a thorough introduction to the basics of stone lithography. If you are curious to know something about the mysteries of lithography and want to have some fun finding out more about this wonderful printmaking process, this is the ideal place to start.

Maintaining razor-sharp tools for lino and wood-block cutting is a vital skill. In this hands-on course you will learn about blades and gouges, and how to maintain and care for them. You will learn about the different tools and techniques that you can use to ensure they are in the best condition at all times.

Join fashion designer Esther Wilson for an introduction to couture fashion techniques. Drawing from her own practice Esther will teach you how to explore a range of materials to add colour, texture and depth to a screen printed image.

This fun workshop shows you how to work with very simple materials to make relief print festive cards. Kamihanga – Kami (Japanese word for ‘paper’) Hanga (‘print’) – is a quick, colourful technique that encourages a graphic cut style and fast production.

This fun workshop shows you how to work with very simple materials to make relief print festive cards. Kamihanga – Kami (Japanese word for ‘paper’) Hanga (‘print’) – is a quick, colourful technique that encourages a graphic cut style and fast production.

Learn how to make a hard cover book on this detailed but accessible two day workshop. You will learn about the history, materials and craft of bookbinding while making an attractive binding to take home.

An amazing opportunity to work with a range of techniques on fabric. You will learn how to mix disperse dyes to create a bespoke colour palette for your designs, how to collage, create stencils and use found objects to create a variety of fabric ‘grounds’ to embellish.

This three day workshop will provide a comprehensive and enjoyable exploration of collagraphs in surface inking and intaglio processes as well as learning techniques of drawing and cutting using a range of tools, some adapted specifically for this purpose, through to application of textured materials, embossed papers and carborundum powder that gives this process its unique character.

This workshop will introduce you to two Japanese book structures for artists – Ori-hon Hardback Accordion Book & Karakuri Byobu 3 in 1 Visual Trick book.