This course focuses on experimenting with a combination of techniques including simple block-print, etching, collagraph and mono-print to develop a print or series of prints. Printmaking both compliments and brings perspective to other areas of creative practice, so this course is ideal for painting and drawing practitioners who would like to gain a perspective of print techniques and re-engage with the drawn mark.

You will focus on using intaglio and relief techniques to print onto textiles. The course will also introduce the use of finer textiles such as silk to rethink and reformulate the traditional two-dimensional printed image. Looking at artists from the Bauhaus such as Anni Albers, you’ll explore print as a means of creating a ‘total’ artwork that aspires to work with architecture and interrupt the flow of our perception through it. This course is ideal if you'd like to bring your communication, texture and colour skills to the print studio, to become familiar with a diverse and exciting range of media. Guided by one-to-one tutoring, you will expand your knowledge and develop a unique self-led project.

Using print techniques related to monotype (drawing into a field of ink with a range of implements), etching and drypoint (drawing with a needle into media such as plastic or metal); and various reproduction, collage and transfer methods, you will produce a series of prints which have moved through stages of development from observational drawing through to print and back again.