Courses and Tuition
To register your interest for any of the courses below, please email us at artichoketrading@btconnect.com
Collagraph with
Elise Wagner
Saturday 17 May | 10 am - 5.30 pm - Only 1 place left
Saturday 24 May | 10 am - 5.30 pm - 6 places available
£110, inc materials
A one day course with visiting American artist Elise Wagner. Explore her painterly unique technique using encaustic wax with soy based Akua inks. Each participant will get complimentary ink samples courtesy of Speedball inks.
A great course to explore expressive mark making and colour printing.
See more at elisewagner.com
Email to make a booking: artichoketrading@btconnect.com
Book Binding course
Saturday 22 March 2025 | 10 am - 5.30 pm
£110, inc materials
Make your own unique sketchbook. Using cotton fibre printmaking paper. Learn how to bind into a very personal item. Led by Staffan Gnosspelius.
Email to make a booking: artichoketrading@btconnect.com
Introduction to Etching
First Saturday of every month
10.00 am - 5.00pm
£110
Saturday 5 April 2025
Saturday 3 May 2025
This one day etching course is designed to take you from idea to finished etching, with Staffan Gnosspellius. The course teaches traditional hard ground etching, how to prepare, draw, bite and print a plate.
Participants then have the choice of whether to add tones to the line image using aquatint or to introduce colour using mono print.
Aquatint option :
Fix tones onto the already bitten line work using pine resin fused to the plate surface and bitten in tonal stages.
Mono print option :
Learn the basic techniques of mark making and colour mixing. Perfect for painters and artists who like a direct approach to image making.
The course will concentrate on the various mark making opportunities using oil based ink on True Grain. How to use the merits of transparent inks to build up rich colour field layers.
You will begin by making a line etching on zinc, as a base on which to layer the mono print layers.
This course will teach you enough to be confident in accessing the workshop on an on going basis to develop your work.
Email to make a booking: artichoketrading@btconnect.com
Etching Classes, 1-2-1 and Small Groups
Individual tuition and groups of two or more can be arranged at times to suit your schedule.
The one day etching course is designed to take you from idea to finished etching, with Staffan Gnosspellius.
This hands on short course will cover the basics of hard ground, soft ground, drypoint and aquatint. With full explanations of each process and a sprinkling of print history, this course aims to demystify etching, and show how, you too, can make great prints.
You will also have the option to combine etchings with mono print.
This course is for you whether you have produced etchings before and need a refresher, to having never stepped foot in a print studio before! And if you fall in love with etching and wish to continue, there will be further opportunities to use the studio more independently, too, at our tuesday evening sessions Etching Club, also hosted by Ellie, and at open access sessions.
Email to make a booking: artichoketrading@btconnect.com
Experimental Etching Transfer Techniques
Saturday 12 April | 10am - 5pm
£110
6 places available.
Exploring mark-making with copy-transfer on papered zinc plates. With the use of oil based etching ink, greasy drawing material and aquatint - opening the doors to a fluid way of processing your etchings, similar to Peter Freeth's magical designs and paper lithography.
Please bring:
Two A5 black and white images, no bigger than A5. They could either be hand made or photographic or both.
Oil based etching ink. Any greasy drawing tool will also work such as litho crayons or tusche.
Blank photocopy paper.
New and clean washing up sponges.
Brushes ,various sizes and shapes.
Email to make a booking: artichoketrading@btconnect.com
Relief Printing Lino Cut
First Saturday of every month
11am -6pm
£110
What is it that makes one printing’s oldest processes still pertinent today?
Through a combination of group demos and one-on-one tutorials, students will have the opportunity to explore the potential of lino processes. All participants will be shown single-colour printing, multi-block printing and the reduction-cut (or ‘suicide’) method as they explore their chosen subject.
Inspiration will be drawn from the meticulous line-work of Durer to the raw energy of the German Expressionists as well as contemporary artists such as Tom Hammick, Grayson Perry and Christianne Baumgartner.
Please bring sketches of photographic source material to work from.
Course suitable for beginners or experienced printmakers.
Email to make a booking: artichoketrading@btconnect.com
Tuition
1 : 1 Tuition by the hour or by the day, learn a technique, tailored to your needs
We can also teach groups from 2 to 10 people in our studio in Brixton. Please email us for more details.
Artichoke Outreach
We can come to you with our mobile press for various events, like we do every year at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea.
We also visit schools to teach and provide demonstrations. Printmaking is a great way to boost GCSE and A Level portfolios. Please email us for further details.
