Chatsworth Print Club

Develop your understanding and experience of printmaking in this artist-led course meeting weekly for six weeks.

Develop your printmaking experience using a variety of techniques with Chatsworth’s printmaking group based in the Chatsworth Garden art studio – the Old Potting Shed.

These weekly sessions, run over six weeks, will be tailored to suit different experience levels, so are suitable for anyone, whether you’re new to printmaking, have completed a printmaking course or have previous experience in printmaking. 

The course will cover a variety of techniques over the sessions, including observational drawing techniques, safe use of tools, mark making, transferring your design and printing techniques. 

Activities will include:

Monoprints – Drawing from pot plants grown in the service glasshouse at Chatsworth and learning how ink responds to line and pressure.

Linocut prints – Carry out observational drawing and develop these in the studio to design and prepare your linocut. Create prints on different surfaces and explore collaged grounds to print on to.

Reduction lino printing – Learn the reduction lino technique to apply multiple colours to one print. Create a registration board, design your reduction print and start to create your limited-edition prints.

Texture and shape – Experimental printing with a range of textured surfaces and shapes. Using found objects, leaves and recycled materials, create a series of exciting abstract imagery.

Collagraph printing – Using drawings to design and create a new collagraph plate for printing and / or explore your favourite print techniques and develop a series of images to complete the course.

Every Tuesday from 7th January to 11th February or 25th February to 1st April | 10am to 1pm | £275 per course, per person