Courses & events
Book now for one of our short courses and start a new journey in printmaking!
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 October 2026.
Special offer from 1- 31 March 2026. Contact Michelle to enrol for any two of our short courses with a 5% discount.
Courses & events
Book now for one of our short courses and start a new journey in printmaking!
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 October 2026.
Special offer from 1- 31 March 2026. Contact Michelle to enrol for any two of our short courses with a 5% discount.
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.
Stone Lithography Day| 1 Sunday| March 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.
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. A short introduction to using stencils in monotype, including plants, leaves and flowers as stencils, with artist Michelle Avison.
Black & White Aquatint: Scraping Through Darkness| 3 Saturday mornings| May & June 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 | 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.
HAUSPRINT Etching Year | 40 weeks | Monday evenings| September 2026
The HAUSPRINT Etching Year is a unique opportunity to build your printmaking skills over the course of a year- it is designed to provide stable building blocks for your printmaking future, whatever your starting point.
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.
“Revealing the unknown is always the thing I’m interested in”
SooMin Leong’s practice focuses on the transition from one place to another, both through literal journeys and the many stages that go into making her prints. Each is a story informed by the experience and impression of travelling. We interviewed her about her own journey into printmaking.
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.”