Monoprint: a technical tool kit

Monoprint offers printmakers a rich variety of ways of adding layers of colour and tone to works on paper - to either create new images or to develop existing works.

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. As part of this practical session, we will cover : registration, colour, ink viscosity, stencils, cut paper templates, and monoprint using the offset lithography press.

Participants are encouraged to bring along their own work that they would like to experiment with, or to just arrive with curiosity. Alongside demonstrations and individual project development there will be shared and collaborative activities. All materials will be provided.

Course Structure

A day of demonstrations followed by practice.

About the Tutor

Serena Smith is an internationally recognised artist-lithographer whose practice explores the material and poetic relationship between stone lithography and language. Trained in lithography as Stanley Jones’ assistant at the Curwen Studio (1985-97), she has over thirty year's experience as a printmaking artist, tutor, collaborator and technician. Alongside her professional practice Serena studied at the University of London, Central Saint Martins School of Art, and the Institute of Education. Her ongoing doctoral research is based Loughborough University. An elected associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, her work has been exhibited widely in the UK and overseas and she has received several awards. Public collections include the British Library, the British Museum, the University of California, and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.