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Meet Our Presses: Relief Printmaking Taster

£35.00

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Location Leicester Print Workshop
Date & Time Saturday 21st September 
1.00pm - 4.00pm
Tutor  Theo Miller

This NEW course is a great complement to our much loved Heritage Day talk and tour.

This afternoon taster will allow you to work with our studio presses and print a relief block in a variety of ways. Learn how the presses work and spend time creating work inspired by these beautiful pieces of engineering.

Course Structure

  • Introduction and tour of the workshop discussing the presses and their uses.
  • Drawn monoprint and exploration of the workshop's presses
  • Linocutting demonstration
  • Printing
  • Tidying away and discussing the work made

About the Tutor

Theo Miller is a visual artist and printmaker, born in Leicester. He gained a first class degree in Fine Art from De Montfort University in 2014. Miller is currently living and working in Leicester as an Artist and also as a Technician for both Leicester Print Workshop and De Montfort University.

Printmaking, for Miller is an axis, a locus. He describes the beauty of printmaking to be that the final image is always affected by, and integral to the process itself. Miller is currently focusing on letterpress, after being granted the Print Futures Award 2017.

Bookings

Online: You can book online here by credit / debit card or Paypal.

Telephone: You can pay by card over the phone during our opening hours (Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm). Call us on 0116 251 4174.

In person: Call in to Leicester Print Workshop during our opening hours (Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm) to book and pay by card, cash or cheque.

Pre-course information: We will send you details of how to find us and what to bring with you when we process your booking. 

Concessions

Full-Print Members of Leicester Print Workshop are entitled to a 10% discount on our inhouse courses. Interested in joining LPW as a member? Click here for more information.