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 | Jan & Feb 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.
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.
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.
Monotype Study Day: Using water washable inks | 1 Saturday | March 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.
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.
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.
“The unprinted space has its own presence.”
Artist Lucy Annan discusses architecture, light and discarded objects in her exhibition Peripheral Vision at HAUSPRINT with fellow artist Chris Christodoulou.
Incredibly dark and incredibly light
“When I’m sitting in a ballet rehearsal I don’t have access to a table or any printing things so I have to make the monoprints from sketches when I get home. There’s a lot of bodies, there’s a lot of faces, a lot of movement.”
Collecting the Looking
“I love drawing really quickly. I love drawing in really difficult situations. I love drawing in the dark. I like what happens when you can’t see everything or when it’s passed and you have to remember it rather than drawing what it actually looks like, so it’s about the experience of looking as much as what I’m looking at.”
We talk to Michelle Avison about building a resilient artistic practice over 30 years.