Etching, Intaglio & Lithography courses in London
Etching has a long history here at City Lit, and we have excellent facilities including two large, intaglio roll presses alongside the expertise of our tutors who use etching within their own art practice. Learn how to acid bite a plate to create deep intaglio prints with a richness and tone that can’t be equalled in other media.
Other ways to create plates include collographs, a process that takes you through a more handmade approach, giving you an economic way to increase scale whilst combining surface marks and found textures in a harmonious form. Lithography introduces a more painterly approach to mark making and printmaking and is a great cross-over for any student who wants to enrich and expand on their drawing practice.
For more information about courses available, please contact our Visual Arts team at visualarts@citylit.ac.uk
7 courses available
- Introduction to contemporary lithography
This introductory course will explore the process of lithography using various mark-making exercises and drawing techniques onto film and exposing the artwork onto photo positive lithographic plates.
Keeley Street
Mon 26 Oct 2026Isabella TessierFull fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Photo etching workshopThis course teaches you how to transfer your own designs and images to an etched metal plate where you can develop them further and print in this 'hands on' workshop. Photo etching processes are great for producing detailed imagery and are ripe for experimenting with colour inking.
Keeley Street
Sat 13 Feb 2027David HolahFull fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 
Drypoint and intaglio printmaking in a dayDrypoint is a way of creating grooves in a solid surface, it produces a rich unique type of drawn line, from which you will make prints using intaglio inking methods, This workshop offers the opportunity to use specialist techniques and tools and gain insight into how these sit within the creative practice of artists using drypoint. For all levels, although some experience of drawing is preferable.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00- Etching workshop
An exciting introduction to the basic processes and principles of etching. Using zinc plates, create beautiful images with line, texture and tone, and experiment with printing your image in both monochrome and colour.
Keeley Street
Sat 5 Jun 2027Kath CastilloFull fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Photo lithography workshopPhoto-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.
Keeley Street
Sat 12 Jun 2027David HolahFull fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Wood lithography: mokulito workshopMokulito 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.
Keeley Street
Tue 29 Jun 2027Rolina Elsje BlokFull fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Etching workshop: summer school intensive
This three day summerschool course (with one day break) gives an exciting introduction to the basic processes and principles of etching. Using zinc plates, create beautiful images with line, texture and tone, and experiment with printing your image in both monochrome and colour.
Keeley Street
Tue 20 Jul 2027Kath CastilloFull fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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