Courses & events
Book now for one of our courses to start a new journey in printmaking and being creative.
We have just one place left on our HAUSPRINT Etching Year starting on 19 October 2026.
Contact Michelle to enrol for any two of our short courses with a 5% discount, or to ask any questions.
Courses & events
Book now for one of our courses to start a new journey in printmaking and being creative.
We have just one place left on our HAUSPRINT Etching Year starting on 19 October 2026.
Contact Michelle to enrol for any two of our short courses with a 5% discount, or to ask any questions.
HAUSPRINT Etching Year | 40 weeks | Monday evenings| October 2026
The HAUSPRINT Etching Year is a unique opportunity to learn printmaking skills over one year. This etching course is designed to teach you the essentials of etching, to introduce new techniques and help you build and develop your work, whatever your starting point.
Exploring Monotype | 8 evenings | October- December 2026
Find out about different ways to make monotypes, and have some fun developing your ideas, with artist Michelle Avison.
Stone Lithography Day| 1 Saturday| October 2026
This one day course is specially for those who are curious to discover the basics of lithography. You will have a few prints to take home by the end of the day.
Rethinking Sketchbooks | 1 day | Saturday 21 November 2026
Rethink your sketchbook practice! This fun one-day course is designed to free you from the habit of seeing sketchbooks as just repositories for your drawing.
Monotype Study Day: Using water washable inks | 1 Sunday | February 2027
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 painterly monotypes.
Etching with Copper | 4 Wednesday evenings | Feb 2027
Join our four week course to learn the basics of etching on copper, using hard ground, soft ground and aquatint.
With a lot of help from you – our 2024 Crowdfunder story
In May 2024 we ran a Crowdfunder appeal to raise £10,000 for two new presses and improvements to the studio. We are thrilled to say that we exceeded our target with donations of over £11,500.
Daydreaming through decoration
“I felt like I was in multiple spaces at the same time – the studio, my source material, my paintings – and I really lost myself in the process of making. I had this epiphany that if I inhabited my paintings long enough then the experience of looking at them would contain the dysphoria I felt, because that’s how art works, it’s a sort of a mirror.”
Artist talk: Michelle Avison
From her inspirations to struggling to find a place to draw, Michelle takes us through a chronological history of her work, and how she learned to embrace the practice of looking in this video presentation.