Part of the Press Showcase Collection, each day throughout Leicester Print Festival there will be a new video giving you a glimpse inside the studio and a chance to see each press in action.

Studio Showcase:

Screenprinting

Join LPW technician, artist and tutor Serena Smith in learning how to create and print using a transparent polymer plate.

Pop Up Print - How to make transparent polymer plate print

Part of the Pop up Print Collection. Join Leicester Print Workshop Education Manager, artist and tutor Kate Da'Casto in learning how to make a simple folded book.

Pop Up Print - Bookmaking

Whilst creating a printed and stitched sampler, experiment with 'mindful markmaking' techniques and explore the meditative qualities of repetition with Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Augusta Philippou.

Mindful Markmaking with Augusta Philippou

Join Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Peter Clayton as he takes you through the process of creating a multi-layered monoprint using recycled materials found around the home.

Monoprint with Peter Clayton

Join Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Sally Stephens to learn how to create a collagraph plate, which can be printed at home without a press.

Pop Up Print - How to make a big hug

Be inspired by Japanese woodblock techniques to create your own prints at the kitchen table. Learn how to adapt this historic technique using the things you have to hand

Recycled Japanese Woodbock

Join us as we look back through Leicester Print Workshops' community project Printing Parks with artist and tutor Sally Stephens.

In Conversation with Sally Stephens

Join Leicester Print Workshop technician, artist and tutor Serena Smith in conversation with Illinois based artist Michael Barnes.

In Conversation with Michael Barnes

Claire is one of the founding members of Leicester Print Workshop. She worked as educator & curator at Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery and Leicester City Gallery.

The Path Project -
Claire Morris Wright

Emma Fitzpatrick’s work draws influence from people, architecture and landscapes. She is interested in the theme of time and man’s inventiveness in creating environments to live in.

In Conversation with Emma Fitzpatrick

Watch Leicester Print Workshop studio manager Nichola Hingley take you through the processes of monoprinting.

Monoprint with Nichola Hingley

Watch Leicester Print Workshop tutor Karoline Rerrie take you through the process of how she creates a colourful two layer screenprint.

Silkscreen with Karoline Rerrie

Watch LPW technician Serena Smith share her top tips on laminating thin papers - a technique used for attaching delicate calligraphy tissue to a more robust paper.

Coffee & Print: LIVE

Watch Leicester Print Workshop technician Katy Goodrich take you through the process of creating a mono screenprint with a photographic top layer.

Mono Silkscreen with Katy Goodrich

Watch Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Gregory Millar take you through his process of printing multi-layered linocuts using a SLAMA hand press.

Linocut with Gregory Millar

Watch as Leicester Print Workshop technician, artist and tutor Serena Smith takes you through one of the many ways to ink and print a collagraph plate.

Inking a Collagraph Plate with Serena Smith

Join the California based artist as she takes you through her process of creating vibrant drawings & paintings onto draughting film.

Painting and Drawing onto Draughting Film - Marisa Sayler

Watch Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Sally Stephens take you through the process of drypoint etching an aluminium plate.

Drypoint onto Aluminium with Sally Stephens

Join Leicester Print Workshop artist, studio holder and tutor Peter Clayton on a journey through basic colour theory, a skill useful for all printmaking techniques.

Colour Theory with Peter Clayton

To mark our 5th anniversary here in the Cultural Quarter of Leicester, watch a timelapse film of Our Big Move project, that tranformed a warehouse into a fit for purpose printmaking studio.

Our Big Move Building Time Lapse from 2015

Watch Leicester Print Workshop Education Manager, artist and tutor Kate Da'Casto take you through the process and thinking behind her etchings made during a residency at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park.

Etching with Kate Da’Casto

Part of the Leicester Print Workshop Archive, filmed by Bill Newsinger. Join Leicester Print Workshop artist Theo Miller who will take you through the process of restoring a Columbian press.

The New Custodian Film

Join Leicester Print Workshop stone lithography fellow 2013-15, tutor and West Yorkshire Print Workshop technician Kathryn Desforges taking you through the process of printing a stone lithograph print. Creating and demonstrating the process along the way.

Stone Lithography with Kathryn Desforges

Watch Leicester Print Workshop technician Serena Smith using the Hydraulic press to print a collagraph plate.

Studio Showcase - Hydraulic Press

Watch Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Sumiko Eadon using the Rochat press to print a photo lithography plate.

Studio Showcase - Rochat Press

Watch Leicester Print Workshop technician Serena Smith using the Galley and Adana presses to print letterpress.

Studio Showcase - Letterpress

Watch Leicester Print Workshop artist and volunteer Kate Fortune Jones using the Columbian press to print a lino plate.

Studio Showcase - Columbian Press

Watch Leicester Print Workshop artist and volunteer Kate Fortune Jones create a lithographic print.

Studio Showcase -Lithography Press