Printmaking (24/25)

Course Overview

This printmaking course will provide you with the opportunity to creatively explore and develop visual studies through a structured range of printmaking processes across the year. For new students, each term there will be an emphasis on specific processes. Returning students progressively cover a wider range of processes and experienced students have an opportunity to utilise the sessions and facilities to extend and develop their practice. Continuous support, guidance and constructive advice will be given throughout. The printmaking classes provide a rich and informative opportunity to develop and share ideas and processes.

Continuous support, guidance, and constructive advice will be provided throughout the course. The printmaking classes offer a rich and informative opportunity to develop and share ideas and techniques.


What Topics Are Covered?
The printmaking workshop features a variety of methods and processes for generating imagery and enhancing your creative practice. Here's what to expect each term:

  • Autumn Term:
    • Introduction to printmaking processes.
    • Development of observation drawing skills and creative experimentation with monotype processes to create unique prints.
    • Explore card printing, collographs, and linocuts for relief printing, producing either editioned or varied prints.
    • An introduction to drypoint, a simple intaglio printmaking technique, focusing on the expressive use of line, tone, and mark. You'll experiment with monoprint and Chine coll to create various outcomes.
  • Spring Term:
    • Begin with visual studies through monotype print processes.
    • Transition to intaglio printmaking, starting with drypoint and progressing to a range of etching techniques on zinc plates, including hard ground, soft ground, and aquatint, to expand your visual vocabulary.
  • Summer Term:
    • Explore stencil-making methods and processes for screen printing.
    • Techniques will include drawn, painted, and collaged photo stencils, photocopied photo stencils, paper stencils, and found materials.
    • You'll also create unique, painterly monotype screen-printed outcomes.

Returning students will progressively cover a wider range of processes, while experienced students can fully utilize the workshop facilities and tutor expertise to enhance their practice.


What topics are covered?

What topics are covered?

The printmaking workshop offers a wealth of methods and processes to explore and generate imagery and extend creative practice. As a result, for new students, each term there will be an introductory emphasis on specific processes:

Autumn term will cover a general introduction to Printmaking processes. Students will have opportunities to develop both observation drawing skills and creative play through experimentation with a range of monotype processes to produce a range of unique prints. The conceptual making and printing of card printing, collographs and lino cuts will allow the creative exploration of methods and processes involved with relief printing and to produce possibilities of either editioned or varied prints. Dry point is a simple introduction to intaglio printmaking. Students will be able to develop their studies through the expressive use of line, tone and mark, exploring possibilities with monoprint and chine colle to produce a range of outcomes.

Spring term will start with generating visual studies through monotype print processes. These outcomes will lead into intaglio print processes. First with dry point exploring line, tone and mark and then progress on to the introduction of a range of etching processes using zinc plate, including hard and soft ground and aquatint to develop a fuller visual vocabulary.

Summer term students will have the opportunity to embrace a range of stencil making methods and processes that could be used developing screen printed imagery. This will include: drawn, painted and collaged

photo stencil art work, photocopied photo stencil, paper stencils and found materials photo stencil. As well as unique, painterly monotype screen printed outcomes.

Returning students across the terms progressively cover a wider range of processes and experienced students have an opportunity to utilise the full extent of the workshop including the range of facilities and Tutor knowledge and experience to extend and develop their practice.

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Course Details

Course Type: Adult Community Learning
Age Group: 19+

Frequently asked questions

This printmaking course will provide you with the opportunity to creatively explore and develop visual studies through a structured range of printmaking processes across the year. For new students, each term there will be an emphasis on specific processes. Returning students progressively cover a wider range of processes and experienced students have an opportunity to utilise the sessions and facilities to extend and develop their practice. Continuous support, guidance and constructive advice will be given throughout. The printmaking classes provide a rich and informative opportunity to develop and share ideas and processes.

Continuous support, guidance, and constructive advice will be provided throughout the course. The printmaking classes offer a rich and informative opportunity to develop and share ideas and techniques.


What Topics Are Covered?
The printmaking workshop features a variety of methods and processes for generating imagery and enhancing your creative practice. Here's what to expect each term:

  • Autumn Term:
    • Introduction to printmaking processes.
    • Development of observation drawing skills and creative experimentation with monotype processes to create unique prints.
    • Explore card printing, collographs, and linocuts for relief printing, producing either editioned or varied prints.
    • An introduction to drypoint, a simple intaglio printmaking technique, focusing on the expressive use of line, tone, and mark. You'll experiment with monoprint and Chine coll to create various outcomes.
  • Spring Term:
    • Begin with visual studies through monotype print processes.
    • Transition to intaglio printmaking, starting with drypoint and progressing to a range of etching techniques on zinc plates, including hard ground, soft ground, and aquatint, to expand your visual vocabulary.
  • Summer Term:
    • Explore stencil-making methods and processes for screen printing.
    • Techniques will include drawn, painted, and collaged photo stencils, photocopied photo stencils, paper stencils, and found materials.
    • You'll also create unique, painterly monotype screen-printed outcomes.

Returning students will progressively cover a wider range of processes, while experienced students can fully utilize the workshop facilities and tutor expertise to enhance their practice.

Suitable for all abilities beginners and those with experience.

The workshop offers a conducive, sharing learning environment.

The course also 'knits in' well for students who have experience in other art and design disciplines. It offers students the ability to adopt and apply an inter disciplinary approach to develop visual thinking and experience with processes. It can be used to make new work and refresh working practice.

All methods, processes, specialist materials and techniques will be demonstrated and explained. Students will then have the opportunity to creatively explore and experiment within the conducive learning workshop environment, supported through one to one tutor contact and small group discussion. The workshop offers a conducive, sharing learning environment.
There will be opportunity for you to generate suitable visual studies in the first few sessions each term. However, by all means, do bring in your own ideas which maybe drawings or photographs that you would like to develop. There may also be sample images for you to use. A small portfolio would be useful to take home your prints as well as a note/drawing book to record your experiences.
To avoid disappointment, please make sure you enrol on your chosen course early. Decisions regarding running or cancelling a course are made one week prior to the start of the course. If a course is cancelled, you will be informed and your course fees refunded in full. Please see Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. The course will not run on bank holidays or during half term. Please check the term dates.

Funding
If you are aged 19 or older, and are a UK national living in the UK or EEA for the last three years, you should be able to access government funding towards the cost of your course. Your course will either be free, or partially funded with a small fee to pay.

Free - if you are unemployed, looking for work and claiming benefits; Also, if you are employed & earning below 25k per year.

Partially Funded - if you earn 25,000 or more per year.

Not Funded - if you do not meet the residence requirements. You may be required to pay the full cost of your course, and will not be able to claim any government funding.


We will be able to advise you on your funding eligibility after you apply, but feel free to give us a call if you'd like to discuss your circumstances.


The prices listed are the highest possible option - the final price would be allocated depending on individual circumstances (according to the criteria above).

Sally Gaden has been the Printmaking Subject Leader at Bath College for 29 years and has tutored students in their progressive Art and Design development through the levels across the range of courses and has been Level 2 Art and Design Course Leader. Trained in Illustration and Graphic Design, Sally has taught at a range of FE Institutions and is Visiting Lecturer at Gloucester and Falmouth Universities. Sally was Artist in Residence at The Museum of Rural Life, Waterperry House and Gardens, Oxford. She was awarded the Eaton Fund to facilitate her specialism in 3-dimensional mould making, casting and fabrication to complete her MA in Mulitdisciplinary Printmaking at UWE in June 2020 which she achieved with Distinction and was awarded the Clifford Moss 3D prize.

Recent Exhibitions have included:

2022 Showcase 2022, UWE Bristol Alumni Show Arnolfini, Bristol

2022 Engaged: MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking RUH, Bath

2021 Imprint: Critical Thinking and Making. MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking 44AD, Bath

2021 From the Heart: Juliet Duckworth and Sally Gaden 44AD, Bath

2020 Open Print 44AD, Bath 2020 Sally Gaden - Southmead Hospital, Bristol 2019 You Know You Want To Sally Gaden - Design Space, UoG, Cheltenham 2019 Where the Heart is... Sally Gaden and Juliet Duckworth - Wraxall House, Somerset

2019 Mini print: MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking - Arnolfini, Bristol

2020 MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking 44AD, Bath

2021 MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking - Arnolfini, Bristol

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