Mindful Monoprint

This course is running as part of LPW's involvement with Mental Health Awareness Week (12th - 18th May 2025), bringing a focus on the benefits of being involved with making art and expressing yourself visually.

LPW is running a series of free workshops through the week with a variety of partner organisations. The proceeds from this course will go towards making these workshops accessible and to help fund the free access work LPW does for families accessing their drop ins all year round.

This is very much from the point of view of connecting your mind and body through the medium of the materials with some guided making.

Through a series of simple exercises, you will be guided through periods of making, thinking and meditating. A time to de-stress, enjoy the simplicity of process and feeling the materials in your hand, you will experience Monoprint in an essential and fundamental form.

Course structure

• Introduction and welcome
• A few visual examples
• Exercises in description
• Exercises in selection
• Following a line
• Hearing
• Pattern making
• Collage and the art of not thinking

About the Tutor

Currently based in Leicester, Kate Da'Casto is a fine artist whose practice spans drawing, photography, printmaking, installation and sculpture. Her subject matter is usually about transformation, growth and the emotional resonance of the discarded.

Graduating with a First in Fine Art from De Montfort University in 2010, Kate went on to win three prestigious awards for printmaking and her art practice and to exhibit locally and nationally. She has collaborated and exhibited as part of The Attic fine art collective and she has taught Fine Art at Leicester De Montfort University and printmaking at LPW.

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.