Playful Printed Plants

NEW COURSE

Based on Mandeep’s Plants and Place garden swing project with ArtReach and Leicester Cathedral you will be making a large scale, bell-shaped paper flower.

Inspired by the common Bellflower family of Campanulaceae found in Leicestershire, you will incorporate repeat pattern relief prints combined with 3D paper sculpture techniques, as well as working with high quality crepe paper for making the leaves. You will be shown how to bring all these elements together to have a completed three dimensional Bellflower with your own handprinted design.

Course Structure

AM:

Design, carve and print a repeat pattern linocut

PM:

Construct the Bellflower shape

Make leaves from crepe paper

Combine both elements to complete a handprinted, three dimensional, Bellflower

About the Tutor

Mandeep Dhadialla is an artist printmaker living in Leicester. Her work draws inspiration from her childhood in Kenya and migrating to England in her early teens. Mandeep’s fascination with exploring how people and the landscape are in an interconnected exchange are reflected through colour and light play. Her current body of work examines how landscape provides a source of constant anchoring between inner emotional and outer physical displacement as prints and sketches which often incorporate vivid colour palettes to reflect inner/outer connection as glowing light and luminosity, seeking out the hidden colours to the forefront. Mandeep teaches printmaking and bookmaking workshops and exhibits nationally and is a member of Leicester Print Workshop and Leicester Society of Artists.

Leicester Print Workshop

Leicester Print Workshop is the regional development centre for printmaking. Established by artists in 1986, we are a registered charity, supported by Arts Council England. Our RIBA award-winning building is situated in Leicester City Centre's Cultural Quarter and is home to a large, well equipped open access Printmaking Studio.

We have over 30 years’ experience of teaching people printmaking. Our programme offers the largest number and broadest range of printmaking courses in the region, with courses suitable for beginners as well as experienced printmakers, delivered by practicing artists and nationally renowned tutors. Participants learn in small and friendly groups in our purpose-designed studio.

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 (Wednesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm). Call us on 0116 251 4174.

In person: Call in to Leicester Print Workshop during our opening hours (Wednesday - 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.