Courses & events
Book now for our new courses in September and start a new journey in printmaking!
We have lots of short courses and taster classes 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 August 2025. Contact Michelle to enrol for three of our short etching courses with a 10% discount – an ideal way to build your etching skills or experience a range of different techniques to build your portfolio of printmaking skills.
Courses & events
Book now for our new courses in September and start a new journey in printmaking!
We have lots of short courses and taster classes 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 August 2025. Contact Michelle to enrol for three of our short etching courses with a 10% discount – an ideal way to build your etching skills or experience a range of different techniques to build your portfolio of printmaking skills.
Etching: Hard and Soft Ground | 4 Tuesday evenings | Oct & Nov 2025
For those wanting to explore etching, our four week evening course investigates texture, pattern and mark-making through hard and soft ground. An excellent introduction to etching.
Seeing is Believing | Talk by author Lee Johnson | Celebrating Black History Month
Join Lee for an informative and action packed introduction to the ideas and historical research behind his next book, Seeing is Believing.
The image that Europeans had of the Caribbean for the first four hundred years after the Spanish arrival there in 1492 was either from descriptions in the journals and publications of other European visitors or from the art of engravers, woodcut artists or painters, many of whom had never been there.
These images initially showed a region that was peopled with naked (and therefore primitive) and – even worse – cannibalistic savages. The images gave Catholic Spain and the Pope all the permission they needed to convert and enslave the people there….
Monotype Study Day: Using water washable inks | 1 Saturday | October 2025
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.
Etching: Aquatint | 4 Tuesday evenings | Nov & Dec 2025
Across four evenings, explore the magical properties of aquatint to create prints with a range of tones from light to dark. Whatever your inspiration, from ocean to architecture, nature to grafitti, learn how aquatint can be used for exciting results.
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.
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.
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.
“I would quite like a bit of a shout now.”
Artist Sarah Praill discusses the ideas and archeology behind her exhibition “To carry a feeling” at HAUSPRINT.
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.”