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.
30 courses available
Handmade printmaking weekendLearn some exciting, low tech printmaking techniques to equip you with skills so you can easily make prints at home without the use of specialist equipment.
Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00- Explore printmakingCome and get inky with this fun one day workshop exploring printmaking. This course will give you a basic understanding of monoprinting, relief printing and screen printing and is aimed at those who would like to explore different printmaking techniques before going on to other courses.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00
- Printmaking at home: printing without a press
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 £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Screen printing studio projects
Develop your screen printing in this weekly taught workshop where you will be shown new techniques, from using halftones and photo processes, layering colour, stencilling and experimental techniques to printing on textiles and professional practice.
Full fee £499.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £324.00 - Woodblock and lino printmaking: experimental approachesLearn 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 £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
- Embossing and typographic printmaking weekend
Experiment with laser cut wooden type and silkscreen stencils to create a series of small posters and embossed prints.
Keeley Street
Sat 14 Nov 2026Robert WhiteFull fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Monoprinting workshop
A monoprint describes a ‘one off’ print, rather than a multiple, similar to a painting. However the marks, and textures achieved from printing layers of ink can produce rich visual effects as they layer and blend. Starting off with the basic monoprinting techniques you will develop these to produce an exciting series of prints to take home.
Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Japanese woodcut printmakingAn introduction to the beautiful and delicate printmaking world of Japanese Woodcut. Explore this water based, non-toxic process and build an appreciation for the handmade. You will learn how to design, carve and make a multi-coloured print. Beginners welcome.Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00
- Screen printing workshop
On this course you will be introduced to a range of screen printing methods. Through practical exercises you will explore the process of screen printing and learn a variety of techniques.
You will create artwork using both paper stencils and digital photographic artwork and expose these onto a screen to create a variety of layered prints onto paper.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Advanced printmaking studio
Access to City Lit's print studio for experienced printmakers, to develop their printmaking practice.
Keeley Street
Thu 7 Jan 2027Claire HyndsFull fee £1,499.00 Senior fee £1,199.00 Concession £1,049.00 - Contemporary printmaking studio: focus on colour
A course for intermediate and experienced printmakers wanting to build on previous experience and experiment with process to consolidate technical skills. The focus is on colour application, advanced intaglio processes, realising personal projects and the production of high-quality prints.
Full fee £499.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £324.00 - Introduction to Photopolymer
On this course you will explore the process of photopolymer printmaking. This low-toxic and versatile process can be used to produce a range of prints onto paper using both drawings and digital imagery.
Keeley Street
Tue 12 Jan 2027 (and 1 other date)Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Contemporary printmaking studio: focus on creative layeringThis course is a chance to develop personal artwork, using traditional printmaking methods with a contemporary approach. Experiment and embrace the possibilities within combined layers and surface textures. Processes covered include monotype, screen-printing and etching/intaglio. All levels of experience welcome.Full fee £749.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £487.00
- Woodblock and lino printmaking workshopThis course introduces you to new ways of combining printmaking with creative thinking by using multiple printmaking techniques and processes, layering them to produce compositions that can be made into artworks to take away with you.
Keeley Street
Fri 15 Jan 2027 (and 1 other date)Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Preparing digital images for printmaking (online)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 £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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