Join us for a nine-week introduction to lino printing with Laura Bremner, founder of Juniper Press.

Join us for a nine-week introduction to lino printing with Laura Bremner, founder of Juniper Press. In this series of evening workshops, you’ll explore the fundamentals of designing, carving, and printing using your own hand-carved lino blocks.

As the workshops progress, you’ll also be introduced to a reduction technique; a method for creating striking multi-colour prints from a single block.

This nine-week series of workshops is designed for beginners who want to explore lino printing; a relief printmaking technique in which a design is carved into a linoleum block and ink is rolled onto the raised surface to produce one or more prints.

You’ll be guided through each stage of the process and introduced to the essential tools and materials used in this expressive medium. Throughout the workshops, you’ll learn to use carving tools safely and effectively while developing core cutting and mark-making techniques. You’ll explore your ideas through sketching and discover how to transfer your designs onto lino before carving your final compositions.

From week six, you’ll be introduced to the reduction technique — a method for creating multi-colour prints from a single block. This involves progressively carving away sections of your block and re-inking it for each new layer, building the image through successive stages.

Alternatively, you may choose to expand your final composition into a second small series of prints or begin an entirely new design.

Drawing inspiration from themes of botanical forms, architecture, and folk art—all central to the designer’s own practice—you’ll experiment with these motifs as you design and carve your own themed prints.

By the end of the nine weeks, you’ll have produced a series of unique, hand-carved lino blocks and original prints on paper (A4–A3), reflecting your personal creative style and growing confidence in lino printing. You’ll also have the option to create a second small series of prints or develop a set of multi-coloured works using the reduction technique.

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