Courses & events
Book now for our HAUSPRINT Etching Year and start a new journey in printmaking!
If you’re looking for something shorter, then scroll down to see our taster classes, workshops and short courses in etching, stone lithography, drypoint, monoprint, woodcut and lino. You’ll also find our events, including artist talks and film nights.
Courses & events
Book now for our HAUSPRINT Etching Year and start a new journey in printmaking!
If you’re looking for something shorter, then scroll down to see our taster classes, workshops and short courses in etching, stone lithography, drypoint, monoprint, woodcut and lino. You’ll also find our events, including artist talks and film nights.
Monotype Study Day: Using water washable inks | 1 Saturday | November 2024
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.
Printing Workshop | 1 Sunday | December 2024
Drop in workshop- try monoprint and drypoint techniques and make a print to take home.
Etching: Experimental Aquatint | 5 Tuesday evenings | Jan & Feb 2025
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 2025
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.
Jigsaw Woodcut | 8 Tuesday evenings | April, May & June 2025
The Jigsaw woodcut course will take you on a journey from the basics of jigsaw woodcut through to advanced prints using multiple layers of jigsaw blocks.
Introduction to Etching | 5 Wednesday evenings | May & June 2025
Whether you are a complete beginner or returning to etching, you will come out of this five evening course with great skills and unique prints.
Carborundum | 4 days | August 2025
Explore carborundum plate making and printing techniques over 4 consecutive days. Working on acrylic plates you will learn how to use carborundum grit and painting mediums to achieve painterly, textural marks, resulting in rich, vibrant prints.
Etching Year | 40 weeks | Mondays | September 2025
This Monday evening class is a unique opportunity to build your etching skills over the course of a year. The HAUSPRINT Etching Year is designed to provide stable building blocks for your printmaking future, whatever your starting point. Over 40 weeks you’ll be guided through a specialist programme delivered over three terms which teaches the principles of etching.
“I think all visual art is a metaphor”
Following a previous career as a forensic psychiatrist, James Anderson’s colourful carborundum and layered woodcuts convey the emotion of inner worlds. We discuss abstraction, inspiration and the hard work of practice with him.
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.”
“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.