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.
36 courses available
- 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
Screen printing studio projectsDevelop 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- 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 - Printmaking for beginnersThis fast-paced course reveals some of the processes used to make fine art prints. You will try both relief and intaglio printmaking methods. This course is for beginners and those with limited experience who want to discover how printmaking techniques actually work. An ideal way to start printmaking.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
- Contemporary printmaking studio: focus on courage to play
Explore and develop personal work using traditional printmaking methods with a contemporary approach. All levels of experience welcome. Beginners will follow a step-by-step introduction to a range of processes and those with experience can develop personal projects with expert guidance.
Full fee £879.00 Senior fee £703.00 Concession £571.00 - 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
- Printmaking: digital artwork preparationDigital technologies play an increasing role in the world of more traditional printmaking. Screenprinting, photo-etching, polymer gravure and relief, and photo litho all require imagery that has been generated using digital image manipulation software. This 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 these printmaking processes.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00
- Printmaking weekend: monoprinting workshop
The ‘low-tech’ nature of monoprinting makes it one of the most accessible methods of printmaking but also one of the most creative. This will be an exciting and enjoyable course to develop and inform your current art practice or, as a starting point for complete beginners.
Keeley Street
Sat 13 Mar 2027Rosey PrinceFull fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Printmaking into bookbinding
Explore the three-dimensional possibilities of print. This course will encourage you to develop your initial ideas through experiments with printmaking techniques and bookbinding structures to create an artist’s book. Some printmaking and/or bookbinding experience may be beneficial but not essential.
Keeley Street
Mon 19 Apr 2027Claire Hynds, Margo Van RooyenFull fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Printmaking weekend: printing with recycled materials
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.
Keeley Street
Sat 22 May 2027Rosey PrinceFull fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Screen printing workshop: laser cutting stencils
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 screen prints can be achieved through producing both laser-cut and hand-cut stencils, and how to build a vivid composition from your own imagery.
Keeley Street
Thu 3 Jun 2027Rolina Elsje BlokFull fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 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
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