SILKSCREEN SUMMER SCHOOL: Tues. 26th Aug - Thurs 28th. Aug. 2025. 11am. - 5 pm.

Silkscreen Summer school with Fox Fisher

Dates: Tues. 26th Aug - Thurs 28th Aug. 2025. 11am. - 5 pm.
Duration: 3 days,
£270.00

Tutor: Fox Fisher.

An opportunity to explore the versatile art of silkscreen printing in depth.

On this course you will learn new skills and a professional approach to your work.

Guided by your very experienced tutor this course is suitable for all levels from beginners to the accomplished artist. Numbers are kept small (four per class) to allow for individual attention. You will get the chance to develop your ideas a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Starting with the basics you will be shown how to coat, expose and make photographic stencils and then progress to making more complex designs. You will learn registration skills and how to make colour separations to print in layers. There will be time for you to develop your own ideas through the process.

Your tutor will help you to explore ways to produce the positives that are used to make successful photographic stencils that will suit your individual work. These will include hand cut, hand painted ‘old school’ techniques as well as digital ones.

Since screen printing is such a versatile technique this course will appeal to artists from many different disciplines, photography, graphics, illustration and textiles as well as enthusiastic amateurs.

All materials such as inks, stencil emulsion, tape etc. are provided apart from paper
225gsm acid free cartridge can be purchased on site (35p per sheet). More expensive or specialist papers and large format digital printouts (over A3) will be charged separately.

The workshop is well equipped to show you how to work at a professional level and advice will be given about continuing on your own. The studio also functions on an open access basis so those who have attended courses often come back to use the studio independently afterwards.