Courses & events
Book now for our courses in the New Year and start a new journey in printmaking! We can also provide vouchers to any value or for a specific course.
We have lots of short courses and taster classes coming up, and if you are looking for something longer you might like to look at our HAUSPRINT Etching Year starting in September 2026.
Special offer until 31 January 2026. Contact Michelle to enrol for any three of our short courses with a 10% discount – an ideal way to build your printmaking skills or experience a range of different techniques to build your portfolio.
Courses & events
Book now for our courses in the New Year and start a new journey in printmaking! We can also provide vouchers to any value or for a specific course.
We have lots of short courses and taster classes coming up, and if you are looking for something longer you might like to look at our HAUSPRINT Etching Year starting in September 2026.
Special offer until 31 January 2026. Contact Michelle to enrol for any three of our short courses with a 10% discount – an ideal way to build your printmaking skills or experience a range of different techniques to build your portfolio.
Etching: Experimental Aquatint | 5 Tuesday evenings | Feb & March 2026
Experiment with different aquatint techniques including sugar lift, monoprint resist and spit bite to achieve a range of painterly tones in etching. This class is suitable for new or experienced etchers.
Trace Monotype from Plants | 1 Sunday afternoon | March 2026
A short introduction to Trace Monotype with artist Michelle Avison. Learn how to use monotype to make a first print using line, and how to print the reverse image or ‘offset’.
Use plants, seeds and fruits to draw from.
Black & White Aquatint: Scraping Through Darkness| 3 Saturday mornings| March 2026
Try out an experimental approach to aquatint, working both from white to black and removing black to achieve grey to white. Experiment with different resists, including crayon, stop-out and marker pens. This class is suitable for new or experienced etchers.
Etching: White Ground | 2 Tuesday evenings | March 2026
Learn how to mix white ground, ways of using the permeable ground, and how to etch and print your plates for great results. The class is suitable for you if you have done some etching before.
Plaster Prints: Casting the Image| 2 Saturdays| April 2026
Explore making 3-dimensional prints by printing your existing etching and drypoint plates into plaster shapes. Please bring existing etching or drypoint plates, or plan to make simple drypoint plates to try out the techniques.
Monotype with Plants and Stencils | 1 Sunday afternoon | April 2026
Explore monotype printing at HAUSPRINT. This course is designed to give you a really good understanding of using water washable, less toxic printing inks to make monotypes.
Jigsaw Linocut | 8 Tuesday evenings | April, May & June 2026
The Jigsaw Linocut course will take you on a journey from the basics of linocut through to advanced prints using multiple layers of jigsaw blocks. The course is suitable for beginners or more experienced printmakers.
Monotype Study Day: Using water washable inks | 1 Saturday | May 2026
Explore monotype printing at HAUSPRINT. This course is designed to give you a really good understanding of using water washable, less toxic printing inks to make monotypes.
Artist talk: Sarah Gillett
In this podcast episode released by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Sarah Gillett talks about her research on how astronauts dream, the promise of future seances, and the joy of collaboration.
“They’re not simple images. They are about everything.”
Artist Chris Christodoulou grapples with the complexities of life in his epic drawing series Odyssey.
On Siss / Phuss: Ziqi Xu in conversation with Livia Wang
“It’s all because I want to see myself, I want to see those unnoticed moments, how they pass by, what is really happening. So that makes the work very personal.”










