Courses & events
Book now for one of our courses to start a new journey in printmaking and being creative.
We have new short courses and taster classes from October, and if you are looking for something longer and more developmental, you should look at our HAUSPRINT Etching Year starting in October 2026.
Contact Michelle to enrol for any two of our short courses with a 5% discount, or to ask any questions.
Courses & events
Book now for one of our courses to start a new journey in printmaking and being creative.
We have new short courses and taster classes from October, and if you are looking for something longer and more developmental, you should look at our HAUSPRINT Etching Year starting in October 2026.
Contact Michelle to enrol for any two of our short courses with a 5% discount, or to ask any questions.
HAUSPRINT Etching Year | 40 weeks | Monday evenings| October 2026
The HAUSPRINT Etching Year is a unique opportunity to learn printmaking skills over one year. This etching course is designed to teach you the essentials of etching, to introduce new techniques and help you build and develop your work, whatever your starting point.
Exploring Monotype | 8 evenings | October- December 2026
Find out about different ways to make monotypes, and have some fun developing your ideas, with artist Michelle Avison.
Rethinking Sketchbooks | 1 day | Saturday 21 November 2026
Rethink your sketchbook practice! This fun one-day course is designed to free you from the habit of seeing sketchbooks as just repositories for your drawing.
Monotype Study Day: Using water washable inks | 1 Sunday | February 2027
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 painterly monotypes.
Etching with Copper | 4 Wednesday evenings | Feb 2027
Join our four week course to learn the basics of etching on copper, using hard ground, soft ground and aquatint.
Artist talk: Eleanor Watson
Eleanor grapples with her attraction to decorative interiors, finding beauty in pattern, object and light, in this video presentation.
“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.
“If I’m not sketching, then I’m not alive. It’s kind of a bloodline.”
In this conversation between artists Chris Christodoulou and Michelle Avison recorded during the COVID-19 2020 lockdown, Chris discusses his obsessive sketching practice and how drawing is fundamental to his life.