Printmaking Classes Spring term 9th Jan – 13th Feb and 27th Feb – 3rd April Thursday mornings 9.30 – 12.30

Printmaking Classes – Spring term 9th Jan – 13th Feb and 27th Feb – 3rd April ( Half term 20th Feb)

Explore print techniques and processes and develop an innovative portfolio of prints. Through various techniques, developed by tutor Adam Grose’s continual experimentation, we will explore various print processes, combining and innovating via the following short courses:

6 week course includes the following: 9th Jan – 13th Feb Thursday mornings 9.30 – 12.30:

 Exploring linocut in greater depth through spending six weeks (18 hours)
producing larger scale prints (A4) and you can bring your own larger lino if you
prefer to work bigger.
 Exploring and creating a design through drawing to finalise a finished design that
you will transfer onto a large lino plate
 Explore the reduction method and carefully carve out your image over the six
week period
 Create an edition of prints
 Learn the various techniques associated with forming larger prints and the
various forms of inking involved with the reduction method
 Learn about how you can present your finished edition to an audience including
the ability to sell online

Additional 6 week course 27th Feb – 3rd April  Thursday mornings 9.30 – 12.30 includes the following:

 Exploring woodcut in greater depth through spending six weeks (18 hours)
producing larger scale prints (A4) and you can bring your own larger plywood if
you prefer to work bigger.
 Exploring and creating a design through drawing to finalise a finished design that
you will transfer into a woodcut
 Explore the reduction method and carefully carve out your image over the six
week period
 Create an edition of prints
 Learn the various techniques associated with forming larger prints and the
various forms of inking involved with the reduction method
 Learn about how you can present your finished edition to an audience including
the ability to sell online

‘Monotype, Linocut, Woodcut, Dry-point, Zinc Etching, Block Printing, Lithography, Chine Colle and many more.

These form part of Adam’s ‘transferable skills project’, enabling artists and learners to develop their interdisciplinary skills by combining two of more processes. Compliment your portfolio, build confidence and discover ways of seeing, through practice-based research and experimentation, enabling exploration of your practice in greater detail via various tasks and self-study.

Tutor: Adam Grose

Adam Grose is a painter and printmaker from Cornwall, living and working in Taunton. He studied painting and printmaking at Southampton Institute (BA (Hons) and at Falmouth University (Master of Fine Art: Contemporary Practice). He is a member of the RWA in Bristol.

His images are grounded in research from various archives, seeking to capture the passage of time through layered images exploring the human condition with a documentary sensibility.