Leicester Print Workshop

Leicester Print Workshop is proud to support Arts Award, inspiring young people to grow their arts and leadership talents.

This one day course introduces the basic principles of screenprinting onto paper.

Print Club is an opportunity to gain confidence and build printmaking skills as part of a small group in a technician led series of sessions.

This workshop will involve layering marks made with coloured slips directly onto clay slabs and using monoprinting techniques.

Inspired by the architecture and design of the Bauhaus movement, you will learn to use drypoint to create shape, line, form and structure in a composition.

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

Designed for beginners or those with some experience, this course will introduce you to etching using zinc plates.

This course is a taster introduction to the basics of stone lithography.

Kami (Japanese word for ‘paper’) Hanga (‘print’) is a simple relief technique, similar to collagraph.

On this day course you will learn the ways to translate ‘image’ to a letterpress forme and print it using Letterpress borders.

An inspiring day looking specifically at producing a 2 layered screen printed textiles design.

This course combines lino cutting and monoprinting to explore ways to be creative with images.

New for 2019! Learn an alternative and complementary linocut process. In this course, you can experiment with caustic soda to ‘etch’ into the surface of the plate.

Our Professional Development courses continues a look at storing and preserving prints.

The course will introduce the art of paper folding using recycled papers to explore a variety of decorative packaging.

Gum Arabic transfer is also known as “paper lithography” and uses laser photocopies as a starting point to create prints.

A weekend looking at using disperse dyes to explore beautiful, fluid mark making on fabric.

Print Club is an opportunity to gain confidence and build printmaking skills as part of a small group in a technician led series of sessions.

A day course introducing this photo-etching process that uses photopolymer plates that are developed in water.

Learn various book formats for your future artist’s book project.

A weekend spent learning how to transform your hand drawn or photographic images into etched plates.

This NEW follow on course is perfect for those who have completed Intro to Print and for those with previous printmaking experience to develop their skills further.

This one day course introduces the basic principles of screenprinting.

Using stencil monoprint to create, overlapping colour mixing abstract forms inspired by the Bauhaus exhibition.

A half-day session to give you a taste for letterpress.

Our Professional Development courses continues with this artist led discussion covering many issues around the process of editioning your prints.

Develop your screen printing skills and experiment with composition.

An experimental day exploring abstract form, texture and pattern.

Leicester Print Workshop is proud to support Arts Award, inspiring young people to grow their arts and leadership talents.

Learn to make beautiful, unique images and designs by creating your own very finely detailed & cut stencils using waterproof paper.

During this course you will learn various monotype processes, creating one off, experimental, colourful images.

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

Spend time looking at artists throughout history and the ways they have demonstrated the elements that make their work expressive – colour, contrast, composition and material.

We have a limited number of places on this Two Part Expression course, which comprises The Keys To Expression (Saturday 8th June, 10am – 1pm) and Colour and Expression (Sunday 9th June, 10am – 4pm.)

This course is a great practical introduction to colour theory and terminology.

Print Club is an opportunity to gain confidence and build printmaking skills as part of a small group in a technician led series of sessions.

An opportunity to explore monoprinting and blind embossing with natural forms.

This weekend course is an amazing opportunity to work across disciplines – using lino to create expressive cut lines and inked areas which then combine with screenprinted backgrounds.

This weekend course covers the CMYK process for screenprinting, which is often used to reproduce photographic images.

This weekend course is an amazing opportunity to learn traditional dye making techniques and the secrets of preparing pigments from their raw state into beautiful marbling inks.

In this day course you will make your own colourful mono-print ‘ephemera’ and paper collage materials to combine and recombine to create wonderful one off prints.

Leicester Print Workshop is proud to support Arts Award, inspiring young people to grow their arts and leadership talents.

Learn experimental processes with and without the use of a press over five days in this Summer School.

Learn experimental processes with and without the use of a press over five days in this Summer School.

New for our Summer School is an opportunity to learn Japanese book binding and box making.

This “Mini Print Club” is a set of three morning sessions for teenagers aged 14 – 16 to learn how to screenprint.

A busy day to explore the many exciting ways that disperse dyes can be used to create bright, colourful prints onto fabrics and acetates.

A morning taster course introducing wood engraving.

This new course, running over two consequetive Saturdays, will show you how to produce A4 linocut prints using soft Japanese vinyl.

This course is ideal for those with some screenprinting experience who wish to improve and extend their practice.