Printmaking

Printmaking courses in London

At City Lit, we offer a wide range of printmaking courses, aimed at catering for your interest whether you are a complete beginner or an experienced artist. Our printmaking studio is a communal and collaborative space that celebrates the joy of working alongside others in pursuit of printmaking excellence.

We specialise in etching, screen-printing, relief and multi-media combinations. Our group classes are small, enabling you to learn using a combination of presses and printmaking equipment designed to enable multiple approaches to the medium.

All our tutors are artist practitioners with hands-on expertise. They are there to help you explore and challenge yourself towards making beautiful prints to take home or exhibit.

We host exhibitions throughout the year at City Lit Gallery where our students showcase their amazing work.

To arrange a conversation with our printmaking coordinator about your interests, options, and to find out what courses are available, please contact our Visual Arts team at visualarts@citylit.ac.uk.

Flexible Learning—In-Person or Online

Join us at our vibrant Covent Garden campus, an inspiring hub designed to support your learning with modern facilities and state-of-the-art equipment. Explore our facilities.

Prefer the flexibility of online study? Our live, interactive online courses bring expert teaching straight to you, wherever you are.

Courses available both in-person and online

We offer a range of long and short courses allowing you to choose between in-person and online learning.

Learn in the centre of London with our in-person courses. Our purpose-built facilities in Covent Garden mean we are ideally located and easy to get to. 

See our guide to online learning for more information about accessing our live online courses.

All our courses are live, interactive, and taught by expert tutors. No matter how you prefer to learn, we've got the class for you.

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  1. Printmaking weekend: printing with recycled materials
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 23 May 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rosey Prince

    Exciting and imaginative prints can be made from the most humble and unexpected materials creating wonderful textures that will add line and tone to your images. Make prints exploiting texture and colour using readily available and simple materials with a low environmental impact.

    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  2. Screen printing workshop: laser cutting stencils
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Thu 28 May 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rolina Elsje Blok

    You will be introduced to screen printing without the process of developing and exposing your screen photographically. We will concentrate instead how rich and vibrant screenprints can be achieved through producing both laser-cut and hand-cut stencils, and how to build a vivid composition from your own imagery.

    Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00
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  3. Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00
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  4. Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  5. Printmaking at home: printing without a press
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    Course start date:  Thu 4 Jun 2026 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Rosey Prince

    Learn some exciting monoprinting techniques that you can do within the comfort of your own home and make exciting and beautiful hand-made prints without the use of expensive printmaking studio equipment. This short online workshop will provide you with skills and confidence in setting up a small simple print making space at home and to make prints in a creative and resourceful way

    Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00
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  6. Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00
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  7. Photo lithography workshop
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 6 Jun 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Holah
    Photo-plate lithography uses light sensitive aluminium plates as a printing matrix for photographic, text or hand drawn images. This versatile process allows you to collage and overprint these elements to create original works in small editions.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  8. T-shirt screen printing in a day
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 7 Jun 2026 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Adam Hogarth
    In this fun, 1-day workshop you will be taught how to print onto t-shirts, tote bags and other fabrics. Students will learn basic screenprinting techniques, including how to put your own designs onto screens, correct inks and printing methods and how to clean and prepare screens.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00
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  9. Preparing digital images for printmaking (online)
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Jun 2026 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Claire Hynds
    This online workshop in preparing digital images for printmaking will provide an introduction to specialist tools and techniques required using Adobe Photoshop in order to prepare your imagery for printmaking processes such as screen-printing, photo-etching, polymer gravure and relief, and photo litho.
    Please note this course is online, for same course in the studio please see below.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  10. Woodblock and lino printmaking: experimental approaches
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 12 Jun 2026 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rolina Elsje Blok
    Learn how to create multicolour or monochrome relief prints. You'll be encouraged to work from your own source imagery (sketches, magazine cuttings, photos etc) as an inspirational lead-in to producing relief prints to take home.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  11. Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00
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  12. Wood lithography: mokulito workshop
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Jun 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rolina Elsje Blok
    Mokulito printmaking, or wood lithography, uses plywood as a printing matrix to draw on with inks, sharpies and lithographic crayons and create images that will print as small editions.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  13. Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  14. Woodblock printmaking workshop: laser cutting blocks
    Course start date:  Thu 25 Jun 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rolina Elsje Blok

    You will be introduced to the process of wood block printing by combining hand cut marks and laser engraving. We will concentrate on how we can use laser engraving and laser cutting as part of relief printing through building vivid compositions to create your own imagery.

    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  15. Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00
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