Courses & events
Book now for our courses in the New Year and start a new journey in printmaking! Buy a course for a friend or family for Christmas- we can provide a voucher to any value or for a specific course.
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 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! Buy a course for a friend or family for Christmas- we can provide a voucher to any value or for a specific course.
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 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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”