This weekend course will use fun mark-making techniques as a starting point to create metal collagraph printing plates.

We will adapt these drawings and use them as inspiration to create Collagraph plates and print them in ways to make lively, colourful images.

Course venue
The Print Workshop, Old Cattle Market, Captain’s Place, Southampton SO14 3FE

On this three day printmaking course we will have fun using a range of materials to produce beautifully embossed and richly coloured Collagraph prints.

I will guide you through creating your printing plates using various malleable materials such as textured wallpaper, fabric and threads for linear elements. You will also experiment with cutting into the card surface to create your imagery. You will make a range of marks, tones and textures on your printing plates.

You will leave with a suite of prints and a better understanding of how to successfully make and print from collagraph plates.

Limited spaces – for more information and to book onto this course contact

West Dean college short courses.

Ali Yanya is back in Southampton in April to run a Mezzotint course (with a difference) for me. This time the course will be ‘Aquatint in the mezzotint manner’. Working with aquatinted zinc plates, this technique is as enjoyable as working on a copper mezzotint plate, but a lot easier to create.

The course will be a combination of demonstrations by Ali of using burnishers and other tools to create a Mezzotint image the course also includes mezzotint plate inking and printing.

This course is currently fully booked, if you’d like to be added to the waiting list, contact me via the Contact page

Course venue
The Print Workshop, Old Cattle Market, Captain’s Place, Southampton SO14 3FE

This weekend course will use fun mark-making techniques as a starting point to create abstract collagraph printing plates.

We will adapt these drawings and use them as inspiration to create Collagraph plates and print them in ways to make lively abstract images.

Ochre Print Studio, Lockwood Centre Westfield Road, Slyfield Industrial Estate, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 1RR United Kingdom

To book contact Ochre Print Studio

This one-day workshop will explore the use of carborundum grit to achieve rich, dense areas of colour on a printing plate to create bold and expressive mark-making in your prints.

I will then show you how to combine this process with drypoint techniques to add linear marks to your image.

Ochre Print Studio, Lockwood Centre Westfield Road, Slyfield Industrial Estate, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 1RR United Kingdom

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A fun three day course with all you need to know to make successful collagraph prints. Covering plate making, using a range of materials, inking and printing techniques to create a suite of Collagraph prints.

Course Duration: 3 Days 10am – 4:30pm each day
Venue: The Workshop, Old Cattle Market, Captain’s Place, Southampton SO14 3FE
Course fee: £300

A comprehensive and enjoyable introduction to etching.

I will introduce methods of etching that will create imagery using both line etching and tonal etching techniques.

We will be working with aluminium plates using copper sulphate to etch.

For more information and to book onto this course contact West Dean Short Courses

Image: Boneyard 6
Etching by Sarah Mander

On this three day course we will have fun using various malleable materials such as textured wallpaper, fabric and threads for linear elements of the imagery.

We will also experiment with cutting into the collagraph card surface to create interesting prints.
As the title of the course suggests, we will create bold and richly coloured prints.

For more information and to book onto this course contact West Dean college short courses.

Image: Dynamic Order
Carborundum Print by Sarah Mander

I’m back at West Dean College in May. This time embracing abstraction, well actually working from a still life to kick off and then abstracting and choosing the essence of drawings that have been made to make intriguing collagraph prints.

It’s the first time I’ve taught this course at West Dean. If you are interested in having fun with collagraph plate making and learning more about working with abstract imagery, come and join us in May.  

For more information and to book onto this course contact West Dean college short courses.

Image: Having fun with students at West Dean College

A comprehensive and enjoyable exploration of collagraphs. Covering the spectrum of construction methods from collage to sculptural techniques, card-cutting, and dry-point methods.
A complete collagraph tool kit from initial image through plate making and printing.

Spaces are currently available on this course. Further details and booking via West Dean College.

Image: Pace and Force
Drypoint and Carborundum Print by Sarah Mander