Ochre Print Studio, Lockwood Centre

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…

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 weekend course will teach you all the basic techniques. David will show you how to prepare the lino before you start, how to create, cut and…

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,…

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…

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…

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…