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.

Etching: Hard Ground | 3 Tuesday evenings | October 2024

Whether you are looking for a greater understanding of the hard ground technique or are a complete beginner to etching, you will come out of this three evening course with new skills and unique prints.


When: Tuesday 8, 15 & 22 October 2024

Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Tutor: Rob White

Cost: £160

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Etching: Soft Ground | 3 Tuesday evenings | Oct & Nov 2024

For those wanting to explore etching but feel the pressure of drawing, our three evening course investigates texture, pattern and mark-making through soft ground.


When: Tuesday 29 October, 5 & 12 November 2024

Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Tutor: Rob White

Cost: £160

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Etching: Aquatint | 3 Tuesday evenings | Nov & Dec 2024

Across three 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.


When: Tuesday 19 & 26 November, 3 December 2024

Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Tutor: Rob White

Cost: £160

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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 printing inks to make painterly monotypes.


When: Saturday 30 November 2024

Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tutor: Michelle Avison

Cost: £186

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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.


When: 4, 5, 6, 7 August

Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tutor: Rob White

Cost: £390

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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. 


When: Beginning 8 September 2025 for 38 weeks

Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Tutors: Rob White and Michelle Avison

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Exhibitions

Contemporary printmaking, diverse artists, changing programme.

Exhibitions

Features

Interviews, insights and techniques from artists working with print today.

Features

Glossary

Printmaking involves many specialist techniques, processes and tools. We hope our glossary will help guide you through the subject. New entries added monthly.

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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.

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Artist talk: Michelle Avison

From her inspirations to struggling to find a place to draw, Michelle takes us through a chronological history of her work, and how she learned to embrace the practice of looking in this video presentation.

Video

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