A day in the studio, built around what you want to make
Not a class with a timetable. A day in a working print studio with someone who has been doing this for twenty years, shaped around your idea rather than a syllabus. Most people arrive without knowing exactly what they want to make. That is fine. Working it out is part of it.
How it works
We talk first
A call before you book anything. What you want to make, what you've done before, what you'd like to walk out holding. I'll tell you honestly what's possible in the time.
The day itself
My studio in Kimpton, Hertfordshire. Just you, or up to four of you. Everything is here: inks, paper, screens, the press. You bring an idea and a pair of hands.
You leave with the work
Signed, and yours. Plus a written note of what to do next, because the day is more useful if it doesn't end at 5pm.
What a day can be
Pick one, or arrive with something not on this list. The call sorts it out.
Start from nothing
You have a feeling rather than an image. We work out what it wants to be, then make it.
Screenprint properly
One colour or five. Coating, exposing, registration, the squeegee. The parts that go wrong and why.
Watercolour and paint
Hand-painted work into or under the print. Where the ink stops behaving and something better happens.
Collage and monoprint
Cut paper, found material, one-off impressions. No two the same, which is the point.
Experimental surfaces
Oxidised copper, foil, glitter, varnish. The work that doesn't sit flat on paper.
Get unstuck
You already print. Registration drifts, ink bleeds, the second layer never sits right. Bring the problem.
You bring an idea and a pair of hands. Everything else is already here.
Length and price
The difference between these is time, scale and how far you get. Not how much attention you get. That part does not change.
Half Day
£225
Around four hours
One idea, one print, one afternoon.
Enough to pull a real print and understand how it happened. The usual starting point, and the one people buy as a gift.
Studio Day
£395
10am to 5pm
The whole process, start to finish.
Artwork, screens, registration, printing, signing. You leave with a small edition rather than a single print, and you know how to do it again.
Two Days
£695
Two full days
For something you actually want to keep.
Larger format, more layers, more risk. The right length if you want a proper edition, or you already print and want to push past where you're stuck.
All materials, inks and paper are included. Bring up to three other people at £150 each. Larger formats and framing can be added, so ask on the call.
The studio takes four people at most. Past that I cannot give everyone proper attention, so I do not take the booking.
Who books these
- People who have never printed and want to find out whether they like it.
- People who print already and have hit something they cannot solve alone.
- Couples and friends who want a day making something instead of a day looking at something.
- People buying it for someone else, which is most of the Half Days.
Before you worry about it
- No experience needed, and no drawing ability either.
- You do not need Photoshop. Bring a photo, a sketch, or nothing at all.
- Everything is provided. Wear something you do not love.
- Lunch is included. Tell me about allergies on the call.
If it is not right, I will say so
We speak before you book. If I do not think I can give you the day you are after, I will tell you on that call and you will not pay anything. If we do book and you need to move it, that is fine with fourteen days notice.
I would rather turn a day down than take money for one that was never going to work.
Arrange a day
Dates are arranged directly with me, so tell me roughly when suits and what you have in mind. I run a small number of these around my own printing, so there is usually a wait.