Discover the expressive world of monoprinting in this hands-on creative session exploring texture, movement and abstraction through drawing and printmaking techniques.

Guided by music-led and gestural drawing exercises, you’ll experiment with mark-making, textured surfaces and layered composition before creating a final large-scale A2 artwork.

Across the session, a range of creative processes will be explored, including textured drawing, abstract mark-making and monoprint techniques using an etching press.

Structured around practical experimentation and creative play, the class offers guided support throughout as you build a personal collection of prints, textures and visual responses.

This workshop focuses on exploration and process rather than technical perfection. Participants will leave with their own textured prints, a completed layered artwork and a texture glossary of techniques to continue experimenting with at home.

Please note: if you have previously attended the 4-hour version of this workshop, the content and experience will be very similar.

Suitable for beginners and creatively curious participants aged 14+.

Food and drink is also available for purchase throughout the session from our cafes.

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What is Monoprinting? 

Monoprinting is a form of printmaking that produces unique, one-off prints rather than repeat editions.

Often combining drawing, texture and layered ink techniques, monoprinting is known for its spontaneous and expressive qualities, making it ideal for abstract and experimental artwork.

About your tutor 

Mel Perkins graduated with a Fine Arts degree from Derby University in 2019. Based in Suffolk as an artist at Old Jet, Mel is developing her multidisciplinary practice, focusing mainly on photography, painting and sculpture. 

Describing making art as a ‘bodily and intrinsic process’, Mel works instinctively. Materiality is as fundamental to her practice as theme and subject matter, and she explores each in depth. 

When work becomes too ‘ordered’, she intentionally seeks chaos again. This playful experimental approach runs throughout Mel’s work, as she combines hard and soft, and different scales and modes of presentation.

There is a questioning of two and three dimensions and the potential between them. 

Sometimes she also adds handwritten notes and musings, in order to bring an aspect of humanity back into her works.