Studio taster session for A Journey Through Lithography Year Long Course

This three hour taster session gives you an opportunity to go through the processes, goals and ambitions for the year long 'Journey Through Lithography' course. You will have a chance to engage with the practicalities of taking up the year long course and will hear from Nora and Serena about the format, materials, support and enrichment as well as experience a taste of the practical Printmaking processes that will be available. There will be opportunity to get hands on collaboratively at the press and also ask any questions of the tutors. We would like you to have the opportunity to really understand the course and make sure it is right for you.

Please do check out the full details of the course on our website.

Anyone going on to book the full course will have the cost of this taster session offset.

About the Tutors

Nora Hammenberg is a lithographer and artist from Sweden and it was there that her journey through lithography began. This continued when she travelled to the USA where she studied to become a collaborative printer at the Tamarind Institute in 2014-2015. She is now one of only seven lithographers in the United Kingdom with this unique education. In 2018 she opened the doors to her own lithography workshop, the Stone Tree Press, where she offered courses and printed fine art lithography editions in collaboration with artists, utilising her skills gained at the Tamarind Institute. In addition to the work with Stone Tree Press, she has been involved with the lithography programme at Leicester Print Workshop as well offering courses in Sweden. Hammenberg has a passion for the traditional way of creating lithography prints through collaboration between artist and printer and is keen to keep these lithographic skills alive. Lately she has been focussing on her own art practice and is currently working on a series of lithographs at Leicester Print Workshop.

https://www.instagram.com/stonetreepress/

Serena Smith began her lithographic journey in 1985 at the Curwen Studio in London, where she was Stanley Jones' assistant for twelve years. Her subsequent and ongoing practice as an artist, lithographer and educator has been indelibly shaped by the legacy of her formative training as a collaborative studio printer. As one of the studio team, in partnership with Leicester Print Workshop she developed and mentored the Lithography Fellowship programme for a number of years. More recently she has been working to improve the facilities for lithography at the workshop, whilst pursuing doctoral research. Alongside a teaching practice spanning over 20 years, Smith is an internationally recognised lithographer who exhibits widely: her bookworks and stone lithographs are held in several public collections.

www.serenasmith.org

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.