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.
- Photo etching workshopCourse start date: Sat 13 Feb 2027
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David HolahThis 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.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Printmaking: digital artwork preparationCourse start date: Mon 8 Mar 2027 (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 - Printmaking weekend: monoprinting workshopCourse start date: Sat 13 Mar 2027
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 £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Printmaking into bookbinding
Course start date: Mon 19 Apr 2027Location 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 £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Printmaking weekend: printing with recycled materialsCourse start date: Sat 22 May 2027
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 £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Screen printing workshop: laser cutting stencilsCourse start date: Thu 3 Jun 2027
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 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.
Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Photo lithography workshopCourse start date: Sat 12 Jun 2027
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 £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Self-portrait in printmaking techniquesCourse start date: Wed 30 Jun 2027
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 £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Etching workshop: summer school intensiveCourse start date: Tue 20 Jul 2027
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 plates, create beautiful images with line, texture and tone, and experiment with printing your image in both monochrome and colour.
Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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