Here are all the courses that we have run at Hot Bed Press. If you are interested in a particular course that isn’t on the current schedule then please do let us know. If there is enough interest then we may be able to add extra courses.
Courses Archive (A-Z)
Tutor: Martin Kochany
The first time we have run this over a weekend, this course will introduce you to monoprint, drypoint, collagraph and a bit of relief printing. Learn how to… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Lucy May Schofield
Indulge in a day of making an artist's book. You will be e-mailed a short brief in advance for preparation, and on the day have the opportunity to explore many… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Norman Higginbottom
Learn the craft of bookbinding. Over a weekend you will be shown how to make 1/4 bound, 1/2 bound and full bound cloth covers to bind single sewn sections.… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Justin Sanders
These of caustic soda on lino can add expressive and fluid marks to your relief printing. The etched surface can take different colours by varying the… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown Printing
Tutor: John Brewer
Part photography, part printmaking, these fascinating techniques transform photographs into intense images that have great depth and impact. John will take you… Read more...
Starting: Saturday 10th March 2012Ending: Sunday 11th March 2012
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: Kiran Williams
This fascinating process may be thought of as etching on fabric. It is most usually used on specially woven mixed fibres. A design can be screen-printed or the… Read more...
Starting: Saturday 17th March 2012Ending: Sunday 18th March 2012
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: Justin Sanders
Not for the faint hearted this fun weekend will give you scope to play with electric engravers, drills and routers to create brash, dynamic and gutsy prints… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Sue Shaw
Explore the chronology of endpaper design (marbling, small repeat patterns and thematic), and bring them to fruition by printing on our lovely Risograph.… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Martin Kochany
Spend a weekend in our great new etching room learning to apply wax grounds and drawing up your image. You will develop and etch your plate, adding more line… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Martin Kochany
Taking a lively and painterly approach to etching this course will bring in new ideas and ways of working and will include working with sugar-lift, Vaseline… Read more...
Starting: Monday 19th March 2012Ending: Monday 23rd April 2012
From: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: Justin Sanders
This incredibly effective method uses photocopies saturated with gum arabic to create photo-resist that when rolled over with ink can hold the ink just like a… Read more...
Starting: Saturday 3rd March 2012Ending: Sunday 4th March 2012
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: John Brewer
Popular between the 1890’s and 1920’s, gum bichromate printing is probably the most expressive and flexible of all early photographic techniques. In its… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Lucy May Schofield
This two day course will show you how to use a combination of found papers, ephemera and your own artwork to make beautiful French-sewn, hard-back books… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Nick Mobbs
This method of photo-etching uses pre-coated zinc plates and can capture very fine detail, and is essentially more tonal than conventional photo-etching. Over… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Emily Speed
Working with your own drawings, mementos, and collected ephemera, this course will introduce you to a range of different book forms, including concertina,… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Rebecca Salter
We are very pleased to welcome back Rebecca Salter to Hot Bed Press. Rebecca has written books on Japanese woodblock printing and is a well renowned artist and… Read more...
Starting: Saturday 21st April 2012Ending: Sunday 22nd April 2012
From: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: Martin Kochany
Life drawing with a twist. You will be taught how to draw from the life model and print at the same time, using drypoint, monoprint and painterly print… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Justin Sanders
Mezzotint achieves tonality by roughening the plate with thousands of little dots made by a mezzotint rocker. The rocked plate produces a deep black when… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Martin Kochany
Take photographs into etching giving them a new life, added physical presence and depth of tone. This weekend will introduce you to applying the film to the… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Mandy Tolley
Screenprinting is quick, colourful and can be as sophisticated or as simple as you like. Create your own photo-screens by laying down base colours with simple… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Justin Sanders
This marriage of photo-screen with collagraph brings a new twist to carborundum. The use of grit of different grades offers a variety of tones. You can also… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Martin Kochany
Working in the nearby location of Castlefield you will observe the industrial landscape. This is an expressive drawing weekend working directly into print. The… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: John Powell-Jones
Hot Bed Press is proud to once again offer this very popular course which will introduce you to printing your own t-shirts and posters giving them a unique… Read more...
Starting: Monday 6th February 2012Ending: Monday 27th February 2012
From: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: Lucy May Schofield
On day one, learn how to make a beautiful portfolio box, perfect for the presentation of prints, drawings and photographs. Day two will teach you the… Read more...
Starting: Saturday 3rd March 2012Ending: Sunday 4th March 2012
From: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: Martin Kochany
This is an ideal introduction to printmaking. Over 5 evenings learn monoprinting, drypoint, collagraph and lino printing. Each process has its own quality. As… Read more...
Starting: Monday 6th February 2012Ending: Monday 5th March 2012
From: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Fully booked
Tutor: Jason Hicklin
Spend a weekend being taught the art of etching, from putting a ground on a plate and etching lines to adding tone through aquatint. Jason will inspire with… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Sue Shaw
Come and see the possibilities of the Risograph. It looks like a photocopier but it uses real ink and has a lovely quality, somewhere between screenprinting… Read more...
Starting: Sunday 29th April 2012Ending: Sunday 29th April 2012
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: Graham Moss
A chapbook is a pocket-sized booklet popular from the 16th to the 19th Centuries, revitalized in the last 20 years. Over this weekend you will be shown how to… Read more...
Starting: Saturday 24th March 2012Ending: Sunday 25th March 2012
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: Lucy May Schofield
Over 8 evenings explore narrative and sequence, form and content, text and image, inspired by contemporary examples of artists’ books. You will learn how to… Read more...
Starting: Wednesday 15th February 2012Ending: Wednesday 4th April 2012
From: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: Graham Moss
Whether you have attended any of our letterpress courses before or have never picked up a piece of type in your life, this course is designed to work for… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Martin Kochany
A comprehensive evening course in printmaking taking you on a journey in monoprinting, drypoint, collagraphs, relief printing and etching. This is the perfect… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Mandy Tolley
For the first time at Hot Bed come and learn the full range of possibilities in screenprinting, from simple stencils and painterly monoscreen to photo-screen,… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Oliver Flude
Create your own hand-made book with between 4 and 6 relief printed illustrations. You will be shown how to plan your book and to cut and print your… Read more...
Starting: Tuesday 6th March 2012Ending: Tuesday 27th March 2012
From: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: Mandy Tolley
During the two-day course, not only will you learn how to put your own designs onto screen and print them onto fabric, you'll also be shown how to embellish… Read more...
Starting: Saturday 21st April 2012Ending: Sunday 22nd April 2012
From: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Spaces available
Tutor: Graham Moss
On this introductory course, suitable for beginners, you will be working with your own text. You will learn to properly handle metal type and a table-top… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Martin Kochany
This process has been developed by Martin as a unique method of achieving a subtle soft ground aquatint, giving expressive painterly tone in a simple and… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Tutor: Malachy Wolohan
Learn the beauty of lithography using silicone on aluminium to createamazingly subtle tonal images. You will be introduced to the wonders of the hand drawn… Read more...
This course is not currently on the schedule
Featured Prints
Here’s a selection of prints taken from our new 20:20 print exchange which includes 19 studio groups in the UK and Ireland and over 230 beautiful prints. You can view the whole collection on our Flickr page.
JENNY ROWNTREE
SHARON BAINBRIDGE
FIIONA WILSON
LINDA HARRISON
TERENCE LISTER
JUNE RUSSELL
DIONNE SWIFT
AIDEN MOESBY
HELEN DONLEY
NICKY NEATE
PAT FORSYTH
VANESSA MANSFIELD
GRAHAM PATTERSON SCREENPRINT & SPRAYPAINT
MICHELLE WOOD
SARAH BARGIELA
TONY REDMAN
WENDY RYAN
RAIJA PRATCHETT
POPGRAFIK
STEVE JEFFRIES
Sponsors
