About
Based in Brighton and Hove, UK, Ink Spot Press is a professionally equipped printmaking studio offering facilities and expert tuition in screenprinting on paper and fabric, letterpress, relief printing and photopolymer printmaking.
We are proud of what we do and how we can help a diverse range of artists, designers and makers achieve great results in printmaking. Checkout one of our projects.
Ink Spot Press, near Hove train station, is a working studio run by artist Jane Sampson. It operates on an open access basis providing a place that artists, designers and interested members of the public can hire to make their own prints.
Rates Are:
£25.00 for half a day (screen, relief and etching presses)
£40.00 for a full day (screen, relief and etching presses)
£25.00 for half a day in the letterpress area.
£40.00 for a full day in the letterpress area.
Open-access users must be fully competent in their chosen medium to work unsupervised. If you'd like to learn new skills or develop your practice, we run regular evening classes, weekend workshops and one-day courses, and can arrange one-to-one tuition for those returning to print after a break.
We also offer:
A print editioning service in collaboration with Andy White at Handprint.
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Digital tuition in illustrator or photoshop. A silkscreen positive printing service (up to A1) and a screen making service for those who want to print in their own studio.
Contact Inkspot for details.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01273 691496
ABOUT THE STAFF
Jane Sampson @inkspotpress
Jane is an artist and printmaker with a special interest in screenprinting. She exhibits regularly in galleries and at art fairs in the UK and abroad and has won several awards and prizes for her work. Recently she has had exhibitions in the Netherlands and Dubai.
Currently she holds a part time lectureship at Brighton University and teaches short residential courses at the world renowned Westdean College (the Edward James Foundation). She also teaches many of the printmaking courses run at Inkspot and has written a book about screenprinting published by Crowood Press. With thirty years of printmaking experience she is well known as a knowledgeable and inspiring teacher.
Andy White www.handprint.co.uk
Handprint offers a friendly, bespoke printing service in Brighton, from artwork through to the final hand-pulled print on paper, board, metal, plastic, leather, T-shirts, totes and tea towels. Using environmentally friendly inks and oil-based inks with special effects including glitters, fluorescents, metallics and foils, Andy brings 35 years of screenprint know-how and is widely known as 'the print wizard' for his encyclopaedic knowledge of screen printing.
Andy specializes in printing short runs or special commissions for emerging and established artists, designers and illustrators.
Fox Fisher www.foxfisher.com @thefoxfisher
Fox Fisher (Honorary Doctorate, MA in Sequential Design & Illustration) is an award-winning artist, author and filmmaker. Fox creates bold screen prints and enamel art on reclaimed book pages, wood and cotton rag, inviting viewers to imagine a better world and feel a sense of belonging. Fox's work has been acquired by the Soho House collection and auctioned at the Moco Museum. Fox has screen-printed live at Tate Modern and the V&A, and has been Artist in Residence at the Artist Residence Hotel and Homotopia Festival. For over 12 years, Fox has taught the One Day Print Course in screenprinting at Inkspot, sharing both technical skill and a real love of the medium.
Rose Walker [email protected] @studio.p.ink
Rose studied graphic design at Brighton University, where she fell in love with letterpress. At Inkspot she teaches letterpress, photopolymer platemaking and linocut on the Vandercook and Fag proofing presses and galley presses, using the studio's large range of wood and metal type. Recognisable by her bright pink hair, Rose loves working with fluorescent and metallic colours, mixing text and image in her contemporary take on traditional media.