Ochre Print Studio, Lockwood Centre

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 etching at Ochre and who wish to expand their mark-making repertoire in the etching room. This process involves painting directly onto the metal plate with coffee liquid, creating a painterly image. As the…

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…

Following his very popular workshops in 2019, Tom Boulton is returning to share his extensive knowledge of Letterpress printing with us once again! Tom, aka TYPETOM.COM, trained as a typographic designer and is now a self-taught letterpress printer. With over ten years’ experience he has been commissioned by the likes…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We are delighted to announce that artist Marcus Rees Roberts will be joining us at Ochre Print Studio in May to give a further Masterclass in his printmaking techniques. It will be a day of demonstrations and explorations with many opportunities to ask questions and seek advice with the emphasis…

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 following…

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…