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.
14 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 - 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 - 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
- Screen printing in a day
On this one-day course you will explore how to print and register a two colour screenprint.
Through practical exercises you will explore this process using a variety of introductory processes such as screen print mono printing, colour blends and printing using pre-made photographic screens along with an insight into making digital artwork.
Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00 - Printmaking with nature weekend
Using natural objects as a starting point, this weekend course will introduce you to monoprint and collagraph printmaking techniques.
Keeley Street
Sat 20 Mar 2027Robert WhiteFull 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 - Woodblock printmaking workshop: laser cutting blocks
You 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.
Keeley Street
Thu 24 Jun 2027Rolina Elsje BlokFull fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Woodblock and lino printmaking: large-scale projectsThis 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
Mon 12 Jul 2027Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00
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