Past Courses | Talks

There’s so much more to linocut printmaking than meets the eye but, if you are a novice, this is where you start and this two week course will teach you all the basic techniques. David will show you how to prepare the lino before you start, how to create, cut…

This weekend course is suitable for everyone, from beginners to those who would like the opportunity to learn the less toxic processes we employ in our Etching Room at Ochre Print Studio. Instead of acid we use Ferric Chloride to etch our copper plates and etch Aluminium or Zinc plates…

Artist and Printmaker Mary Dalton's course is taking place during on two consecutive weekdays - Monday and Tuesday. This highly innovative and unusual method of creating a printed 'image' allows the student to see their prints in sculptural form. Mary says: We will be using Plaster of Paris to cast…

The joy of monoprinting lies in its spontaneity, with the ability to combine printmaking, painting, stencils and drawing techniques. This one day workshop is an easy introduction to working in a print room and no previous experience is required. Artist/printmaker Gill Jenkins will introduce you to printmaking in a relaxed…

A two day course exploring the possibilities for screenprinting on textiles. Textile Tutor, Jule Mallett, will take you through all the processes involved from creating your fabric designs to exposing them on a silkscreen and printing them on cloth. Suitable for beginners and refreshers alike, all basic materials are included…

This is an intermediate class and only suitable for students who have previous experience of working in lino and/or have attended one of our beginner’s linocut courses in the past. The course will look at: Developing your style of work in linocut prints Progressing your portfolio Exploring a variety of…

This weekend course will give you invaluable experience in all the processes involved for creating multi-layered screenprints on paper. Tutor Jule Mallett will teach you how to make 'positives' (images) to expose on a silkscreen, how to prepare and expose these images on the screen and the preparations and processes…

This three day workshop will explore the possibilities of using soft cut lino to produce vibrant multi-coloured prints, incorporating areas of flat colour, mark-making and texture. Tutor Gill Jenkins will let you use her own jigsaw plates as she guides you through the various inking methods on offer before encouraging…

A three week course, suitable both for beginners and those who have already attended the introductions to less-toxic etching at Ochre and wish to expand their mark-making repertoire in the etching room. This process lends itself to the creation of delicate pictorial effects and detailed mark-making using fine brushes or…

Photopolymer plates produce finely detailed, tonally rich, etched images from drawings or digital/photographic images. During this one day workshop you will have the opportunity to expose two A5 images onto photopolymer plates and to make a number of prints from each. Photopolymer plates are coated with light-sensitive resin. A tonally…

This four week evening course will give you invaluable experience in all the processes involved for creating multi-layered screenprints on paper. Tutor Jule Mallett will teach you how to make 'positives' (images) to expose on a silkscreen, how to prepare and expose these images on the screen and the preparations…

A two day course exploring paper making and printmaking. Spend the first day in the studio making paper using recycled materials. Gill will take you through all the processes and show you how you can embed a variety of interesting textures and fibres in your sheets of paper. The paper…

Over two Wednesday mornings, Helen will take you through the processes for creating and sewing a neoprene bag using heat press and foil. You will plan and make your designs in the first week and sew the bag the following week. Neoprene lends itself to bright and vibrant colours so…

This workshop is suitable for all levels of printmaking and life drawing skills. For the first four hours, the model will pose in a decorative environment and adopt a number of dynamic poses which will be captured in mono prints and mono tracings.  We will also prepare a drypoint plate…

A beautiful intaglio printmaking technique without the use of any nasty chemicals! Drypoint etching lends itself to expressive drawings and mark-making. With the use of clear acrylic plates your designs and artwork are easily transferred to the plate and, when inked and wiped carefully, will produce unique velvety original prints.…

During this weekend course, Vicky will demonstrate how she creates her imagery using simply constructed collagraph plates to dramatic effect and then you will have the opportunity to explore these processes under her guidance. Collagraph is a printmaking technique based on collage.  Prints are taken from plates constructed from textured…

An introduction to applying colour, pattern and design to cloth. On this 4-week evening course you will explore a different textile technique each evening:   Week 1 - Using a silkscreen and stencils Week 2 - Procion dye Week 3 - Indigo dye Week 4 - Heat press (sublimation printing)…

Over the course of the weekend, Gill and Jule will take you through the processes of eco-Dyeing and rust Dyeing. Gill will show you how to use leaves, flowers and bark to produce delicate prints on paper and fabric, and then Jule will show you how to use rusty objects…

Artist Jacqueline Mair works internationally as an artist. She has an MA in printmaking from the Royal College of Art and has taught at the University of Portsmouth UK and the Savannah College of Art and Design, in both the USA and Lacoste, France. Compared to other art forms, Collage…

A course only designed for those who have some experience of linocutting. Be prepared for Steve's dynamic approach to creating wonderful textured linocut prints! If you are already a fan of the linocut then this course will give you the opportunity to add an exciting new dimension to your practice. Over…

Following his very popular workshops in 2019 and before 'Lockdown' this year, Tom Boulton is returning to share his extensive knowledge of Letterpress printing with us once again. This is a great opportunity for you to express yourself through the printed word and make poster style prints mixing different styles…

The accordion, or concertina book format is one of the simplest books you can make, with its excellent display and narrative possibilities. From this simplest of formats there are an endless variety of potential creative book formats that you can explore. In this one day workshop you will learn how…

Drawing with water based inks and bleach creates exciting experimental and expressive marks that are difficult to achieve with other mediums. The results can be subtle or bold, whichever you prefer! This one-day workshop will give you the opportunity to spend time experimenting and playing with mark-making. All materials are…

An introduction to the joy of stitch meditation, a process that's good for body and soul, allowing you to indulge in the tactile nature of hand stitch without the pressure of an end goal. The pieces created are often small scale (maybe only 4 square inches) and layered, so provide…

Mokulito is a printmaking technique developed in Japan some fifty years ago and translates as ‘Wood Lithography’. It’s a graphic technique similar to lithography but, as the name suggests, a wood substrate is used for mark making instead of the traditional Litho stone. Lithography relies on the resistance between oil…

This workshop will introduce you to a printing process that would suit anyone wishing to experiment and develop their creative ideas. No experience of print should be a barrier though some dexterity with a craft knife may prove an advantage. Following an introductory talk from Charles you will be instructed…

Charles Shearer will begin this one-day workshop demonstrating how to make A4 fluid and expressive monoprints using stencils and Caligo Safe Wash inks. This method of printmaking can be both playful and liberating and is particularly suitable for those who enjoy drawing. In the afternoon, Charles will show everyone how…

Dale Devereux Barker has been making linocuts for over thirty-five years, mostly using a single block reduction technique. However, over the past four years he has rekindled his love of this activity by investigating the world of using two or more blocks to open up more possibilities for creative discoveries.…

This is an exciting new  course with OPS Textile and Screenprinting Tutor Jule Mallett and award winning illustration designer Thomas WH Compton. The halftone process, found in printing, is a technique of breaking up an image into a series of dots to reproduce the full tonal range of a photograph…

A beautiful intaglio printmaking technique without the use of any nasty chemicals! Etching lends itself to expressive drawings and mark-making. With the use of clear acrylic plates your designs and artwork are easily transferred to the plate and, when inked and wiped carefully, will produce unique velvety original prints. This…

A new workshop that we planned to run earlier in the year but it's even more relevant now that we are all wearing face masks! Helen will take you through the steps for making a colourful snood that can also double as a face covering. This is a lightweight fabric…

Our final course of 2020, a weekend in the studio exploring the use of monoprint and stencils on silkscreens with artist Adam Green. Monoprinting on a screen produces painterly images which cannot be replicated in any other way and the results are often interesting and pleasing. The image is painted…

Our first course of 2021 and we are delighted to welcome back visiting artist/tutor Charles Shearer who will demonstrate how he creates his expressive monoprints using stencils and Caligo Safe Wash inks. This method of printmaking can be both playful and liberating and is particularly suitable for those who enjoy…

The theme for this weekend printmaking course is inspired by Edvard Munch’s pioneering ‘jigsaw’ method, where a single woodcut is sawn into separate pieces, inked individually then reassembled before printing as a single image. Ideas for the imagery could be developed from the themes of ‘love’ or ‘angst’ inspired by…

Following his previous popular workshops, Tom Boulton is returning to share his extensive knowledge of Letterpress printing with us once again! Tom's creative process is a little unusual, being that the structure of letterpress machines are so limiting. “You are incredibly restricted, in the basic sense that you have a…

Four evenings in the studio exploring the use of monoprint and stencils on silkscreens with artist Adam Green. Monoprinting on a screen produces painterly images which cannot be replicated in any other way and the results are often interesting and pleasing. The image is painted directly onto the screen and,…

This weekend course is suitable for everyone, from beginners to those who would like the opportunity to learn the less toxic processes we employ in our Etching Room at Ochre Print Studio. Instead of acid we use Ferric Chloride to etch our copper plates and etch Aluminium or Zinc plates…

  Batik is an ancient fabric wax-resist method of dyeing cloth to create patterns and pictures, originating in Java, Indonesia. The patterns are constructed using lines and dots, but can also include large blocks of colour. Over the two days, Tutor Gill Jenkins will be exploring different ways of applying…

Develop and explore your own creative style through print, dye, pattern making and stitch to create cloth for art dolls and textile collage using simple pattern design. With so many techniques, fabrics and threads available it’s easy to forget that a piece of plain cloth is the best starting point…

This is the very first time a Mezzotint course has been offered at the studio. Mezzotint is an intriguing intaglio printmaking process, invented way back in the seventeenth century, which produces prints with a subtle gradations of tone and deep, rich, velvety blacks. Tutors Jane Stobart and Mustafa Sidki will…

Four evenings in the studio exploring the use of monoprint and stencils on silkscreens with artist Adam Green. Monoprinting on a screen produces painterly images which cannot be replicated in any other way and the results are often interesting and pleasing. The image is painted directly onto the screen and,…

If you are looking for an introduction to printmaking, linocut is a great place to start and this weekend course covers all the basic techniques of 'relief' printmaking. To achieve the perfect linocut print, you will learn about the tools used, mark-making techniques, the best papers to use, be given…

An introduction to image preparation using Photoshop to create high resolution halftone transparencies for screenprinting on paper Tutor James Cockerill of HALTglass will explore different aspects including halftones, photorealistic printing, tonal separation, screen selection and block stencil making skills using the photo of your choice as a starting point. On booking…

This weekend course is suitable for everyone, from beginners to those who would like the opportunity to learn the less toxic processes we employ in our Etching Room at Ochre Print Studio. Instead of acid we use Ferric Chloride to etch our copper plates and etch Aluminium or Zinc plates…

This two day workshop will introduce you to a printing process that would suit anyone wishing to experiment and develop their creative ideas. No experience of print should be a barrier though some dexterity with a craft knife may prove an advantage. Saturday: Following an introductory talk you will be…

Four evenings in the studio exploring the use of monoprint and stencils on silkscreens with artist Adam Green. Monoprinting on a screen produces painterly images which cannot be replicated in any other way and the results are often interesting and pleasing. The image is painted directly onto the screen and,…

Photopolymer plates produce finely detailed, tonally rich, etched images from drawings or digital/photographic images. During this weekend course you will be shown how to expose images onto photopolymer plates and make a number of prints from each. Photopolymer plates are coated with light-sensitive resin. A tonally rich acetate image is…

After many previous popular workshops, Tom Boulton has been asked to return to share his extensive knowledge of Letterpress printing with us once again! Tom's creative process is a little unusual, being that the structure of letterpress machines are so limiting. “You are incredibly restricted, in the basic sense that…