Hi everyone.

Just a quick message to say that although Hot Bed Press is closed we are working from home and are still contactable. We will be updating the website and social media throughout this strange time so make sure you check in with us on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. If you’re not already – make sure you have signed up to our mailing list for any updates.

We hope you are all well and are staying safe and if you are printing we would love to see it!

Send Kate an email at kate@hotbedpress.org with what you are doing or what you should have been doing!

See you all soon.

Our Summer Course programme has been really popular with courses including Introduction to Screen-Print, Woodcut and Waterless Litho already fully booked! We still have places on some of our June and July courses; The Folded Book, Portfolio Box Making and Expanded Screen-Print but be quick to avoid missing out!

Hot Bed Press proudly presents our latest courses for 2020. Our courses at the end of 2019 were so popular that extra courses overran until 2nd February. We have been busy planning for brand new courses with just the right mix of beginners’ classes to new approaches for printmakers wanting to expand their knowledge. We’ve listened to the requests for more screenprinting courses and have 6 different courses to choose from including Understanding Colour in Screen and Screenprint Level 2. Not interested in Screenprinting this time around; there’s more with Monoprint, Drypoint, Woodcut, Copper Sulphate Etching, Experiments in Waterless Lithography, Creative Collagraphs, The Folded Book and Portfolio Box Making Whether it’s for a day a weekend or 5 evenings you can learn so much from our experienced tutors. We know they will be popular. That’s why we’ve put on as many as we can fit in.

Book early as places are strictly limited and courses book extremely quickly.

We are also planning a Summer School of Print between 8th & 16th August. We will announce this after Easter, but expect weekend, week-long, two and 3 day courses all in an action packed 9 days!

One of our ‘print labs’ has just become available!

The spaces are 11ft by 8ft and are situated alongside our open access workshop.

The print labs are studios designed specifically for recent graduates, emerging artists and printmakers with a one year project. The spaces are 11ft by 8ft and are situated alongside our open access workshop.

This unique opportunity includes regular user membership, rent and all bills for £135 a month.

This is a great opportunity for a printmaker who no longer has access to printmaking facilities.

If you are interested please email sean@hotbedpress.org with four images and a statement of no more than 300 words detailing your practice and plan for the year ahead.

You MUST be a printmaker and be able to use the studio during our open access times (see website for more details)

Deadline: Friday 7th Feb

We hope you all had a restful Christmas break and are feeling revived and ready to get printing!

We are now back open and have already got a busy month planned. Next weekend we have the last two courses of our winter course programme and we will soon be announcing the next programme of courses.

Our courses are very popular and book up very quickly – If you want to be the first to know when they are released sign up to our mailing list.

Members get early access to courses so you may also want to consider our associate membership (more information can be found on the membership page)

If you have any questions you can always give us a call or drop us an email. We are happy to help!