We have so much to offer and if you can not find what you are looking for, give us a call or email and we will tailor make your workshop for you.
In Jenny’s amazing Printmaking Studio here in Ironbridge, in your studio or even online, we will have what you are looking for.
Our workshops are full of printmaking methods and processes, giving you the experience to carry on your practice in your own studios.
Jenny Mason-Gunning has Printmaking Ink running through her veins, having started printmaking when she was 7 years old, she has so many wonderful printmaking methods and secrets that she loves to share!
We have many instruction sheets that we send you away with; if you ever need any help, we are only a phone call away.
Call or email to discuss what you would like to do and if you are purchasing one of our presses, it’s so beneficial to have a workshop with us using your new press, so you are confident using your new printing press in your own studio.
We run workshops on any of the following printmaking subjects:
Aquatint Etching using aluminium, zinc, steel or copper.
Traditional or Non-Toxic.
Safe Etching for your home studio or kitchen!
Multi Plate etching.
Sugar-lift, coffee-lift and aquatint Etching.
Double-drop, Chine Colle and A La Poupe
Spit Bite
Teacher-training workshops including over 5 forms of plate making and printing.
Drypoint on styrene or aluminium, zinc and copper.
Collagraph including carborundum, plaster, collage, cut out, scribe out.
Tetra pack
All lino plates – both traditional and easy to cut and of any thickness.
All woodcut and any thickness.
Reduction and multi-plate
Letterpress.
Photogravure, Photopolymer, solar plate, dry film and photo emulsion.
Solar plate
Photo-emulsion on its own or with Aquatint Etching or Drypoint.
Mono-prints and monotype.
We can also do multiple subjects in one workshop if we tailor the course to suit you.
Here is a little information about Jenny’s lovely Printmaking studio.
🎨 4 Gunning Etching Presses – both geared and direct drive (made by us here in Ironbridge) 🎨Glass work surfaces everywhere 🎨Warm heaters for heating humans and Bo-Bo the collie dog. 🎨Log burner with back boiler 🎨Huge Aquatint box (made by us here in Ironbridge) 🎨Huge Aquatint Shelf (made by us here in Ironbridge) 🎨Huge Hotplate (made by us here in Ironbridge) 🎨Huge wash-down (made by us here in Ironbridge) 🎨Huge Extractor for our etching cabinet for etching massive plates using any acid and metal 🎨Huge Extractor for applying aquatints and drying varnishes 🎨Tools all readily available 🎨UV Lightbox and dark room 🎨Metal Cutters x 2 🎨Plasma metal cutter for cutting all metals 🎨big and precise board and paper cutter 🎨 Outdoor seating area right next to the river seven (needs some work in the summer) 🎨Blotting paper area nice and clean 🎨Engraving machine 🎨 Well-stocked fridge with kettle nearby with all the teas, coffees and hot chocolate you could want!!