Leicester Print Workshop

Journey through twelve online live sessions with your tutor, enjoying making and demonstrations, guidance on technique and also theory contextualising each months subject matter.

This online course works through a year long project centred around the idea of the archive. Participants will be asked to create their own printed archive, using existing or created objects, such as letters, photographs, maps and objects.

Using the immediate, mobile and expressive qualities of monoprint much beloved by artists from Degas to Tracey Emin. You will explore line, light, form and composition.

Coronavirus Update: This course has been rescheduled [as of 5th March].

Learn how to make a photo-plate lithograph which can express subtle tones using photographs and/or drawings.

Coronavirus Update: This course has been rescheduled [as of 5th March].

Make bold and painterly prints! Carborundum is a fine grit that comes in 3 grades that we will be adhering to the surface of an aluminium plate. This will create a form of collagraph with the grit holding lots of ink.

Coronavirus Update: This course has been rescheduled [as of 5th March].

This one-day workshop focuses on the colourful technique of screen printing using hand cut stencils.

Coronavirus Update: This course has been rescheduled [as of 5th March].

A fantastic introduction to the world of CMYK monoprinting. You will explore making a full rainbow of colours using just three inks before finding your own palette of colours to experiment with.

Coronavirus Update: This course has been rescheduled [as of 5th March].

Portraiture in Print is a short course for anyone interested in exploring or developing their skills in portraiture using Linocut printmaking. You will learn how to use tone and mark making to create the planes of the face and how to add character to your portraits.

Coronavirus Update: This course has been rescheduled [as of 5th March].

This one day course introduces the basic principles of screenprinting. You will learn how to transfer an image to a silkscreen and print onto paper. This course is ideal for beginners with no previous experience.

This practical one-day workshop in Solar Plate will introduce participants to a new form of printmaking for artists that is simple, safe, time effective and versatile.

New to print? Want to get back into making work? Have you done a course or taster and want to find out more?

Introduction to Print is a fantastic way to explore a variety of printmaking techniques and get a good idea of what suits you.

New to print? Want to get back into making work? Have you done a course or taster and want to find out more?

Introduction to Print is a fantastic way to explore a variety of printmaking techniques and get a good idea of what suits you.

Print Club is an opportunity to gain confidence and build printmaking skills as part of a small group. Previous printmaking experience is required.

A great introduction to relief printing, suitable for those with some print experience, or new to the medium.

A great introduction to relief printing, suitable for those with some print experience, or new to the medium.

The perfect introduction to the world of textiles screenprinting.

Zara will teach you how to translate your ideas into a design, preparing them for screen. You will learn to expose your own images onto screen, print on fabric and experiment with layers.

This one day course introduces the basic principles of screenprinting. You will learn how to transfer an image to a silkscreen and print onto paper. This course is ideal for beginners with no previous experience.

A morning taster course introducing wood engraving. Working on a small scale, you will use specialist tools to engrave a design into an end grain woodblock. Ink up and create your own original prints to produce an edition of beautifully intricate engravings.

A morning taster course introducing wood engraving. Working on a small scale, you will use specialist tools to engrave a design into an end grain woodblock. Ink up and create your own original prints to produce an edition of beautifully intricate engravings.

Collagraph is an exciting and experimental technique. You will learn how to construct a printing plate by attaching layers of textured papers, card and other materials to a card base to create a rich and varied printing surface.

An inspiring weekend looking specifically at producing a 3 or 4 layer screenprinted textiles design.

Come and join us for the morning and have fun making a simple story book using our beautiful wooden type.

Come and join us for a morning of stencil screenprinting, you will cut paper stencils which can be layered up to create colourful one off screenprints onto paper.

Print Club is an opportunity to gain confidence and build printmaking skills as part of a small group. Previous printmaking experience is required.

This course introduces you to woodblock printmaking. Wood has a natural and tactile materiality that gives you a mindful experience as you work with it.

This fun workshop shows you how to work with very simple materials to make relief print Festive Cards. Kamihanga 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 is a quick, colourful technique that encourages a graphic cut style and fast production.

For textiles enthusiasts everywhere!

A weekend to explore and combine colour with surface manipulation to create a variety of fun and textural fabric samples.

An introduction to printing letterpress on an Adana 8×5 Press. A day course covering all aspects of printing letterpress from case, to paper! Via the backbone of British hobbyist printing – The Adana Press.

Leicester Print Workshop is delighted to present our first three day Winter Printmaking Retreats in early 2022.

Taking place over the last weekend in January, these three day immersions will give participants a chance to dedicate time to their printmaking practice. With a choice of Drypoint, Linocut and Mokuhanga, participants will enjoy the opportunity to experiment, play, explore and focus on their chosen technique.

Leicester Print Workshop is delighted to present our first three day Winter Printmaking Retreats in early 2022.

Taking place over the last weekend in January, these three day immersions will give participants a chance to dedicate time to their printmaking practice. With a choice of Drypoint, Linocut and Mokuhanga, participants will enjoy the opportunity to experiment, play, explore and focus on their chosen technique.

Leicester Print Workshop is delighted to present our first three day Winter Printmaking Retreats in early 2022.

Taking place over the last weekend in January, these three day immersions will give participants a chance to dedicate time to their printmaking practice. With a choice of Drypoint, Linocut and Mokuhanga, participants will enjoy the opportunity to experiment, play, explore and focus on their chosen technique.