Information: Our collagraph workshops at Ironbridge studios are a brilliant workshop to attend. During the workshop you will learn how to create a collagraph plate using all the different collagraph processes. You will be working with a specialist printmaker, in a beautifully designed studio, which is situated next to the river seven. Your time will be spent learning how to create a collagraph plates using texture and techniques that will create both intaglio and relief inking parts of the plate. A result will include a finished collagraph plate along with a couple of test prints from your final plate
What we provide:We provide all the materials and a beautiful art gallery and printmaking studios. Teas and coffees.
Times:10am till 4.00
Price: £280 per day for a 1 2 1 tailor made workshop.
Equipment and Etching Printing In the studio there are usually around 4 Gunning Etching Presses,a largeGunning Hotplate, extractor fan units, one of our largeaquatint boxesand a dark room with a UV Light box. We have a brilliant wash down sink and glass work surfaces so you can ink up anywhere. We have a plasma cutter and metal polishers as well as brilliant printers and Mac computers with the use of photoshop and other software.
The studio space has been designed to house 4 printmakers giving them more than enough space to make and print plates the size of 20” x 30”. The hot plate,acid and water baths have been made to take plates of this size and the largest printing press in the studio is ourNo 4 Etching printing presswith a bed size of 35” x 60” making it easy to print any size. .