A one-day workshop exploring the possibilities of printmaking using this versatile and readily available material to make intaglio plates. Participants will explore the mark-making possibilities through scoring, cutting and peeling the plates to create textured plates with variations in line and tone.  You will be shown how to ink, wipe and print your plates using an etching press.  There will be time to explore different inking printing techniques including Chine-collé.

This sustainable process allows the freedom to play and experiment to produce exciting compositions and images, and Peg will provide further development options for exploring the process later in the day.

Beginners welcome as are those with printmaking experience who would like to explore a new technique.  This workshop would also suit teachers who have access to a press and are looking for practical printmaking methods to use with their students.  Students are encouraged to bring some source materials such as photographs or drawings to work from.

Workshop outline

• What is tetrapak printmaking? Explanation of terms including intaglio/relief, line, tone
• Look at examples of prints and plates
• Explore mark-making possibilities and range of tones
• Reversing images
• Plate preparation
• Inking, wiping and printing techniques
• Cutting/tearing/layering plates
• Multiplate printing

Date: Sunday 15 March
Times: 10am to 4pm
Cost: £110/ Members £100

Peg Morris ASGFA

Peg is an Artist Printmaker who works in her home studio in Gomshall and also manages a small open access print studio in Kew in SW London where she has taught etching and other forms of printmaking for 9 years.  She also taught in mainstream and special schools for 25 years.  She has exhibited widely including in the RA Summer Exhibition and is a regular exhibitor at the Mall Galleries.  She has recently been elected and Associate Member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art.