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.
- Preparing digital images for printmaking
Course start date: Mon 9 Mar 2026 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Claire HyndsDigital 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 - Drypoint and intaglio printmaking in a day Course start date: Tue 10 Mar 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anne-Marie FosterDrypoint 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 weekend: monoprinting workshopCourse start date: Sat 14 Mar 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rosey PrinceThe ‘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.
Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Lithography print workshopCourse start date: Tue 17 Mar 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Simon BurderLearn how to produce work that mimics a painterly style using lithography printmaking processes. Lithography depends on the delicate balance between grease and water and can provide a broad range of outcomes. Learn how marks and brush strokes drawn and painted on the printing plate can be faithfully reproduced to create bold or subtle prints.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Printmaking into bookbinding Course start date: Mon 20 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Claire Hynds, Margo Van RooyenExplore 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.Full fee £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £253.00 - Screen printing workshop: laser cutting stencilsCourse start date: Tue 21 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje BlokYou 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 £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Screen printing in a day Course start date: Sat 25 Apr 2026 (and 1 other date)
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 - Developing personal printmaking projects Course start date: Sun 26 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Margo Van RooyenExplore 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 - Printmaking weekend: printing with recycled materialsCourse start date: Sat 23 May 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rosey PrinceExciting 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 - Introduction to printmaking techniques Course start date: Tue 2 Jun 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This 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 £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Photo lithography workshopCourse start date: Sat 6 Jun 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David HolahPhoto-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 - Woodblock and lino printmaking: experimental approachesCourse start date: Fri 12 Jun 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
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 - Wood lithography: mokulito workshopCourse start date: Tue 23 Jun 2026
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 - Woodblock printmaking workshop: laser cutting blocksCourse start date: Thu 25 Jun 2026
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 - The extended self-portrait in printmakingCourse start date: Wed 1 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David Holah.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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