Description

Wednesdays | January 7/14/21 | 2026 | 6.00-9.00pm | 8 places

£70 Full/Keyholder member | £80 Ordinary Member | £90 Non-member | for 3 sessions

• Collagraph prints are based on collage-based plates built up from soft and flexible materials like string, textured papers, fabric. Each plate is an unique, hand built construction which is then inked and printed. Collagraphy is a versatile technique that allows you to experiment with a wide variety of materials adapted for different effects.

All materials and tools supplied. Please bring an image to work from e.g. a drawing you’ve made, photo on your phone, magazine image.

You will have access to a range of professional tools and printing papers

This process has the advantage of being able to make the printing plates at home, often from recycled materials and ‘found’ objects. This is a definite advantage when you move on to larger and more complicated projects. It also suits people who don’t particularly want to draw but love cutting and pasting texture.

You do need to have access to a press to get the best printing results as we use dampened thick printing paper to get beautiful textured prints

What to bring and prepare

Please bring an image to work from e.g. a drawing you’ve made, photo on your phone, magazine image, paper for drawing, pencils, pens, notebook. You will be working on an A4 size board

Start to look out for examples of soft and flexible materials e.g. cloth,  string, netting, embossed wallpapers, bubble wrap,  paper lace doilies, corrugated cardboard, rubber bands.

Bring along something to cover good clothes as it can get messy working with inks and glues.

About the Artist

Peter Spriggs has been a practising artist for many years. He graduated in Fine Art from Cardiff Metropolitan University in 1985 and the Royal College of Art London in 1988. He joined Swansea Print Workshop after attending some taster courses in 2004. Peter worked as a lecturer at Carmarthen School of Art from 1990 and is now a Technical Demonstrator in Printmaking at Swansea College of Art.

About the Studio

You can find us in a row of terraced houses, look out for our fabulous door surround set in a green painted house front; the intercom buzzer is on the left of the entrance.

Parking is free all day outside the studio on Evenings after 6 pm and Sundays only. On Saturday, there is 1 hour parking outside the studio, so you can park there to unload any bags. 3 hour parking is available outside of the controlled city centre zone. There are also multiple long stay car parks in the town centre.

We are close to the main shopping centre and supermarket. There are some facilities for making a hot drink and microwave if you would like to bring along food.

PLEASE NOTE | If you are not a member and are considering more workshops with us, you might like to consider joining as an ordinary member for £25 and enjoy considerable savings on further workshops. Once you have joined you can book in straightaway at the reduced rate. For this course at £90 you would pay £80 as an ordinary member. Additionally you will be able to use the workshop on open access sessions to pursue work independently.

Our Cancellation Policy can be found here.