Screenprinting Weekend: 26 to 27 September 2026

Screenprinting Weekend Course in Brighton & Hove
Saturday and Sunday, 26 to 27 September 2026
11am to 5pm each day
Course fee: £170
Tutor: Jane Sampson

This two-day screen printing course is ideal for beginners and for anyone wanting a refresher in this wonderfully versatile medium. A weekend gives you the time to explore the screen printing process in far more depth than a one-day taster, making it perfect for experimental work, small personal projects, and as an introduction to the workshop if you are thinking of using it on open access.

Numbers are kept very small so you receive as much individual attention as possible. Each participant has access to a professional vacuum bed throughout and can work with guidance using their own imagery.

The course covers:
- Preparing screens for photo-stencils
- Choosing the correct mesh counts
- Making successful positives by hand and digitally
- Exposing and washing out stencils
- Mixing and using water-based inks
- Correct set-up and printing technique
- Registration and colour layering
- Recycling and cleaning screens

Please bring your own source material, for example drawings, collage, computer-generated imagery (on a memory stick) or photographs. If you work digitally you may want to bring your own laptop, as this saves a lot of time, although there is a 24-inch iMac available in the studio. If you are not the computer type, don't worry: this process works beautifully with hand-made and hand-drawn positives, and most prints produced at the studio combine several techniques.

By the end of the weekend you will be able to produce a multi-layered, multi-coloured print or a series of experimental prints, with time left over to relax and enjoy the process.

All screen preparation and basic materials (inks, emulsions, tapes and so on) are included in the course fee. Paper is not included and needs to be a minimum of 220gsm in weight. We keep a tally of what you use and settle up at the end of the course. For example, our quality 220gsm A2 cartridge paper is 35p per sheet.

Please note: if you have a gift voucher and would like to use it to pay for the course, it is essential that you contact the studio to confirm your place. Email [email protected] or call 01273 691496.

Testimonial:
"Just a quick email to thank you for a fabulous weekend of screen printing! I really enjoyed myself and was totally blown away by what I managed to achieve. Seeing your, and everyone else's, work was really interesting. I took one of my prints into work yesterday, and everyone was really impressed too. Hope to see you again in the not too distant future so that I can have another go and try out some other colours and ideas. Thanks again!"