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The new skill – Print making!

Beginners workshop, Deluxe workshop or Cyanotype, nurture your artistic side with one of our creative classes…

THE NEW SKILL PRINTMAKING Nurture your artistic side with one of these creative classes.

• Print Club London runs a variety of workshops in its Dalston studios. Novices should start with the one-day ‘Beginners Workshop’, £50, which covers everything from the history of screen printing to basic techniques and enables you to leave with several copies of your own A4 design. Progress to courses on cyanotype (blue prints), T-shirt making or the more detailed `Deluxe’ workshop. See online for dates (printclublondon.com).

• West Dean College is set in a magnificent crenellated mansion surrounded by parkland near Chichester in West Sussex. It’s the perfect setting for the six-day ‘Woodcut Printing Inspired by West Dean’ course. You’ll learn to interpret the estate’s flora, fauna and architecture in an imaginative way. Starting with sketches, students make wood blocks and create small-scale monochrome prints, before progressing to more ambitious projects in colour. You’ll leave with a series of woodblocks and prints, plus a new appreciation of this age-old craft skill. The next course takes place on August 2-8; from £653 (westdean.org.uk).

• Head to Edinburgh Printmakers for its ‘Japanese Water-Based Woodblock Printing’ course. Put simply, this involves printing watercolour onto handmade Japanese paper and the results can be stunning. Take a look at the delicate abstract artworks on course leader Paul Furneaux’s website (paulfurneaux.com) for inspiration – he studied the technique in Japan and is known for his refined way with colour. The next course is on May 3-4; £175 (edinburghprintmakers.co.uk).