Leicester Print Workshop

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

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.

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

Our Summer School Artist Talks are open to everyone!

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.

Our Summer School Artist Talks are open to everyone!

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.

NEW Morning Print Clubs, designed as the perfect stepping stone from LPW Courses – Membership.

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

Inspired by our current exhibition, children will work with an artist, explore creating their own prints and present their work to family at the end of the day.

Learn full colour screenprinting using colour separation and expand your screenprinting skills.

Use line, shape and texture to create collagraph plates.

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

Working up to A5 you will create a small edition of prints and postcards.

LPW Members can book onto a tech surgery and get some one to one support from our Studio Team.

LPW Members can book onto a tech surgery and get some one to one support from our Studio Team.

LPW Members can book onto a tech surgery and get some one to one support from our Studio Team.

LPW Members can book onto a tech surgery and get some one to one support from our Studio Team.

Learn how to transform your hand drawn or photographic images into photo etchings.

NEW Tuesday morning course!

NEW Tuesday Evening Course!

NEW Evening Print Clubs, designed as the perfect stepping stone from LPW Courses – Membership.

This one day course introduces the basic principles of screenprinting.

Discover textiles and disperse dyes using monoprint.

A unique opportunity to create new work and take part in a project by artists Kate Genever and Steve Pool.

A great introduction to the popular art of linocutting.

Learn how our presses work and spend some time making your own prints!

Work with artists Sumiko Eadon and Sally Stephens and translate artist observational sketches into prints.

Learn how to use traditional wet mounting techniques to preserve your prints on delicate paper.

NEW Workshop for younger printmakers to learn this accessible printmaking technique.

Create a small edition of cards and postcards.

Learn how to translate your image to lino and make a print to take home.

NEW Intermediate Level Lithography Course

Young People can explore markmaking on clay slabs to create relief tiles and platters to take home.

Young People can explore markmaking on clay slabs to create relief tiles and platters to take home.

NEW Morning Print Clubs designed as the perfect stepping stone from LPW courses to membership.

Learn how to create a variety of textures and tones in this mix of relief and intaglio printmaking.

New to our programme – perfect start to your screenprinting journey!

Inspired by our current exhibition, children will work with an artist, explore creating their own prints and present their work to family at the end of the day.

Take part in a collaborative project, finding inspiration in the overlooked and learning how to make monoprints and collage.

‘S’ is also for serendipity and spontaneity! Explore Lo Fi Printmaking with artist BEACH.

Explore this 8th Century craft and produce beautiful pieces using natural dyes.

Join artist David Clarke and explore how digital image manipulation can enhance traditional printmaking processes.

Take part in a collaborative project, finding inspiration in the overlooked and learning how to make monoprints and collage.

An amazing opportunity to try out traditional paper marbling onto fabric and paper.

Take a line for a walk and explore multi plate and abstract printmaking.

Spend a day learning the spontaneous and exciting process of monoprint.

NEW Tuesday Morning Course!

NEW Evening Print Clubs, designed as the perfect stepping stone from LPW Courses – Membership.

Design and print your own zine in a day using screenprint and collage techniques.

An experimental linocut day, taking Indian designs and patterns as inspiration.

Join artist Kathryn Desforges for fun weekend learning wood lithography.

Learn drypoint and monoprint and make prints inspired by Ivon Hitchens’ paintings, on show at Djanogly Gallery.

Spend a day creating a small set of unique letterpress prints.

Create relief tiles and platters in this experimental course

Elizabeth Hawley-Lingham will introduce her work with CVAN EM and explore notions of success, how to navigate the art world, building networks and artist development.

Explore linocut printmaking with a creative twist.

Learn how to screenprint onto fabric, a variety of heatpress techniques and how to use disperse dyes.

Learn and explore drypoint using copper plates.

A day learning how to etch onto zinc using traditional hard and soft grounds.

LPW Members can book onto a tech surgery and get some one to one support from our Studio Team.

LPW Members can book onto a tech surgery and get some one to one support from our Studio Team.

LPW Members can book onto a tech surgery and get some one to one support from our Studio Team.

LPW Members can book onto a tech surgery and get some one to one support from our Studio Team.

Learn how to make a handmade sketch book of your own.

Learn an array of different screenprinting techniques.