Leicester Print Workshop

Intro to print is a fantastic way to explore a variety of popular techniques and get an idea of what suits your printmaking palette.

Intro to print is a fantastic way to explore a variety of popular techniques and get an idea of what suits your printmaking palette.

A Twilight Print Club Pass will get you access to LPW’s studio on Wednesday evenings and you can use it for as little or many as you like over the 15 week period.

Sumiko’s three term course will guide you through a creative exploration of silence and contemplation and support you to visually communicate this through subtle and ethereal images using multiple techniques.

This course is a perfect opportunity to work with silkscreen techniques as you experiment with colour, develop your drawing and compositional skills and incorporate photographic images and text in your work. Perfect for creating personal, original coursework and building an exciting portfolio of work for UCAS applications.

Charles’ course is rooted in his practice and in the landscapes and post Industrial remains that are as much a part of Leicester’s Industrial heritage and its workers, which you will interrogate through multiple printmaking techniques, site visits, oral and photographic archives and guest speakers during this three term course.

This three day course invites participants to experiment with layering by combining simple printmaking techniques connecting with vivid colour palettes and form.

This taster session is designed to give you the experience of making your first Linocut in a printmaking studio environment.

This taster session is designed to give you the experience of making your first Linocut in a printmaking studio environment.

This one-day course introduces the basic principles of screenprinting. You will learn how to transfer an image to a silkscreen and print onto A3 paper.

Use paints and spongy rollers to make bright backgrounds, design your bug and transfer the image to a polyblock plate (polystyrene).

Join us for a morning of playing with paper lithography, a printing technique which allows you to cut, copy and collage images together into new experimental pieces of artwork!

Join our resident screenprinting expert Katy through a whirlwind trip of discovery – using your photos and images to produce screenprinted ‘zine of your life, loves and laughs.

Make spooktacular masks to celebrate Samhain / Hallowe’en…a great opportunity for kids, parents and/or carers to have fun making and decorating masks with a fun spooky theme that you can wear.

Spend the morning in our beautiful studio learning how to make and print a relief print.

Spend a day learning the colourful art of screen printing! Learn how to make a photo-stencil and screen print an image, illustration or design of your own.

You will be introduced to the histories and differences of natural henna and jagua techniques, and learn how to make the paste, create designs and patterns, and how to apply the patterns onto skin.

You will be introduced to the histories and differences of natural henna and jagua techniques, and learn how to make the paste, create designs and patterns, and how to apply the patterns onto skin.

This one day workshop will explore a range of tips, tricks and technical strategies to make monoprint a really useful skill to have in your tool kit.

Join printmaker and researcher Robyn Maclennan in this brand new course exploring her research into EcoGothic landscapes. The ecoGothic is a way of reinterpreting the relationship between humans and nature focusing on ideas of agency, darkness and time.

This course offers a rare opportunity to take your etching to the next level as you are supported to take your first steps working on a large scale.

Introduction to linocut is a day course for anyone interested in learning the basics of linocut printmaking.

Introduction to linocut is a day course for anyone interested in learning the basics of linocut printmaking.

The perfect course for going through the technicalities of designing and printing a repeat pattern onto textiles.

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.

This two day experimental workshop will focus on the technicalities of this process and explore platemaking, multi-plate printing, and overprinting, using the direct transfer and off-set lithography presses.

Learn how to set, ink and print type using our historic collections of lead and wooden type to produce striking bold prints in bright inks and take home your own designed cards and posters.

Join us for a fun creative session making your own Christmas cards and gift tags.

Join us for a fun creative session making your own Christmas cards and gift tags.

Join Jemma Gunning for a fun day exploring the exciting process of sugarlift aquatint.

This workshop will focus on the book as a container of knowledge that can be transformed into an alternative creative medium, a specialist artefact and a strategy for conveying individual and personal creative statements.

Join artist Peter Rapp to design and cut your own reduction prints, successively cutting and printing from the same block of lino until it’s satisfactorily destroyed to produce multilayered printwork.

Spend three days experimenting with collage, text , stencils and drawn work to create your own zines, pamphlet books and posters.

During the course, you will create unique typographical elements and combine them into a portfolio of wonderfully graphic monoprints.