Leicester Print Workshop

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.

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.

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.

Spend half a day exploring letterpress using Wood and Metal type, Iron Hand Presses and Proofing presses.

Spend half a day exploring letterpress using Wood and Metal type, Iron Hand Presses and Proofing presses.

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 three hour activity introduces you to Kamihanga, a simple relief printmaking technique ideal for kids. Enjoy cutting, pasting and printing your fun designs.

Come and join us at the workshop for a fun morning session making colourful prints using cut paper shapes and other materials such as feathers and leaves.

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.

This popular follow on course is perfect for those who have completed Introduction to Print or those with previous printmaking experience to develop their skills further.

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.

This one day course will introduce you to the basic principles of Hard Ground Etching.

Ideal for beginners with no previous experience, you will learn how to transfer and draw your design to your etching plate, to prepare a zinc plate, to etch your plate and print onto paper.

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. Explore shades and tones with detailed mark-making.

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. Explore shades and tones with detailed mark-making.

This course introduces you to Kevin Holdaway’s practice of creating a reduction linocut. You will learn how to prepare, transfer and print from lino using this relief method an image onto paper. This course is ideal for beginners with no previous experience.

Learn to create rainbow coloured screenprints on paper using hand cut stencils and just three colours; magenta, cyan and yellow.

A chance to experience the beauty and transience of Monoprint – a single, unrepeatable print that exists nowhere else. This taster session focusses very much on the process and through that, the healing power of being present in the moment.

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 one-day course introduces the basic principles of Mindful Markmaking techniques and explores the meditative qualities of repetition, with Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Augusta Philippou.

This workshop is a set of three morning sessions for teenagers aged 13 – 17 to learn how to screenprint.

We are very happy to welcome back Charles Shearer for this three day bank holiday weekend workshop.

Come and join us for the morning and have fun making a simple story book using our beautiful wooden type. We will be using the letters to make or inspire an image as well as printing short words. Lots of fun and a great start to your child’s bookmaking journey!

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

Join us for a fun morning session making prints with layers of colour and pattern! Our wobbly Gelli printing plates are easy to use and you will be able to get creative and make some bright and exciting prints.

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

This one-day course introduces the basic principles of Fluid Markmaking with Screenprinting techniques and explores basic screenprint techniques in an experimental and fluid way, with Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Augusta Philippou.

This week long Summer School will take you on the ultimate screenprint journey.

This Summer School is ideal for those artists who enjoy working with paper and creating unique beautiful works using good quality materials under the instruction of an artist who is a current practitioner of the art.

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

Come and join us for a day workshop and make drypoint prints inspired by the plants in our garden.

Over the four weeks, each three hour session introduces you to different intaglio print processes – Drypoint, hard ground Etching, soft ground Etching and Aquatint.

Over the four weeks, each three hour session introduces you to different intaglio print processes – Drypoint, hard ground Etching, soft ground Etching and Aquatint.

This one-day course introduces the basic principles of Impressions: Capturing Nature with Screen techniques and explores basic screenprint techniques created using nature, with Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Augusta Philippou.

Introduction to Linocut is a short course for anyone interested in learning the basics of Linocut printmaking. It is ideal for artists of any level of ability who wish to explore Linocut in a supportive environment.

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

Spend the day being introduced to the beauty of letterpress, using wood and metal type, Iron Hand Presses and Proofing presses.

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.