2 Day Etching Workshop at our Ironbridge Studios, come and make an etching.

Information: This 2 day etching workshop at Ironbridge studios gives you the studio space and 2 days to create an etching. With the help pf an expert printmaker you will be guided through the process that takes your piece of artwork from paper to metal. Once the etching plate has been made the printing can begin, you will be shown lots of different ways to print both traditional and contemporary in colour and traditional monochrome. The combination of using an excellent printing press, inks, paper and a well made plate will give you excellent prints.

You will be working with a full time specialist printmaker, in a beautifully designed studio, next to the river seven, where the industrial revolution began.

Where: At Ironbridge Fine Arts Printmaking Studios

When: Call for availability and to book.

What we provide: We provide all the materials and the printing press.

What you need to provide: Lunch and any snacks, if the workshop is at our Ironbridge studios then we will provide teas and coffees. If it is at your studio, school or University then it would be wonderful if you could provide teas and coffees and let us know if we need to bring lunch with us. Aprons will need to be provided for each student.

Times: 10am till 4pm

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 large Gunning Hotplate, extractor fan units, one of our large aquatint boxes and 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 our No 4 Etching printing press with a bed size of 35” x 60” making it easy to print any size. 

Booking: Call 01952 434033 or email jenny@shropshirefinearts.co.uk