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.
- Cyanotype printmaking in a day
Course start date: Thu 18 Jun 2026 (and 9 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Adam HogarthCyanotype is a photographic printing process which produces a beautiful deep blue print from a variety of artwork, including drawings, photographs, physical objects or combinations of all of these. All levels welcome.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00 - Wood lithography: mokulito workshopCourse start date: Tue 23 Jun 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje BlokMokulito 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 - Cut, stab and etch: printmaking with linocuts Course start date: Thu 25 Jun 2026 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje BlokCut, stab and etch your way to dynamic blocks and exciting prints. Practical instruction in both traditional and inventive linocut printmaking techniques, including the reduction method developed by Picasso, multiple block printing and Polish dot linocut.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Woodblock printmaking workshop: laser cutting blocksCourse start date: Thu 25 Jun 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje BlokYou 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 - Screen printing workshop Course start date: Sat 27 Jun 2026 (and 11 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje BlokEnjoy being guided through inspirational and experimental screenprinting methods. You'll try a variety of mixed media techniques that will energise and enliven your artwork - a great way to expand your image making practice and your portfolio.Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00 - The extended self-portrait in printmaking Course start date: Wed 1 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David HolahThe Extended ‘Selfie’ is an intensive, practice-led printmaking course that explores identity and ideas of self through contemporary print practice. Moving beyond the instant digital image, the course encourages you to consider the self as layered and evolving, shaped by memory, experience, place and personal narrative.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Monoprinting workshop Course start date: Wed 1 Jul 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rosey PrinceThe 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 £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Woodblock and lino printmaking: large-scale workshopCourse start date: Mon 13 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje BlokLarge scale printmaking enables expressive mark making. Use woodcut and linocut carving techniques to produce big, bold and multi-coloured, multi-layered prints for you to take home.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Screen printing in a day Course start date: Tue 14 Jul 2026 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje BlokIn this fun, 1-day workshop you will be taught how to print and register a two colour screenprint using monoprint, colour blends and pre-made photographic screens. You will be taught some basic screen making process and insight into making digital artwork. This will set you up for longer and more advanced screenprinting classes.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00 - Etching printmaking workshop: summer school intensiveCourse start date: Tue 21 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kath CastilloThis three day summerschool course (with one day break) gives an exciting introduction to the basic processes and principles of etching. Using zinc plate, create beautiful images with line, texture and tone, and experiment with printing your image in both monochrome and colour.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Explore printmaking Course start date: Thu 23 Jul 2026 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Esther HeyhoeCome 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 £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Drypoint and intaglio printmaking in a day Course start date: Sat 25 Jul 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Margo Van RooyenDrypoint 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 £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00 - Printmaking project: summer school intensiveCourse start date: Tue 28 Jul 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anne-Marie FosterExplore and develop personal work in intaglio and relief printmaking. Techniques covered include drypoint, etching, linocut, collagraphy and photo etching. All levels of experience welcome.Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00 - Etching workshop Course start date: Tue 8 Sep 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kath CastilloAn 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.
Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Contemporary printmaking studio: focus on creative layering Course start date: Wed 16 Sep 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anne-Marie FosterThis 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
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