1 Year Screenprinting (Portfolio Course)

1 year course with Anna Marrow

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Tuesday 23 September 2025 - 07 July 2025
9.30am - 12.30pm

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This is a 1-year (30 week) course designed to give you a sustained and intensive period of study. It is an excellent opportunity to build a portfolio of work, to develop confidence and ideas in your own practice, and to learn new skills.

Course Outline
Screen printing is a wonderfully versatile medium. In the early stages you can quite quickly achieve a finished print but the process has boundless possibilities once you start printing.

During this one year course you will have time to really extend your knowledge of the technicalities of the process, build and extend your skills, discover and develop a very personal response to the process. The course will appeal to creative thinkers and makers, those who have studied or hope to study a variety of arts, and anyone interested in illustration, graphic design and fine art.

Through studio and workshop projects, you will be introduced to a range of screen printing techniques with demonstrations and set briefs. Students will learn how to develop ideas, drawings, digital and photographic imagery into screen printed designs. This includes:

-Preparing, coating and exposing screens.
-Using a vacuum bed in the studio (but also learning how to set up at home).
-Paper stencils.
-Working on a small and large scale.
-Colour mixing and registering layers.
-Mark making directly onto the screen / exposed marks.
-Blends.
-Reversing stencils.
-Bitmaps / duotone / 4 colour separation.
-Experimenting with fluid and fillers.

You will learn how to research and develop ideas and how to evaluate and reflect on your progress through individual discussion and group critiques. This diagnostic approach will lead to students finding their own paths and following their own personal project ideas in the final term.

This course is suitable for beginners, refreshers and those who are more experienced*.

*For people who have some experience of screen printing and are keen to pursue their own projects, there will be an option for individual study and the freedom to pursue their own goals. This will be achieved with support and guidance from the tutor.

The course will end with an exhibition in the studio, open to family friends and the public.

Anna Marrow has been working as a printmaker, illustrator and image-maker for 20 years. She studied Fine Art in Bristol and then Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, specialising in illustration. She now draws at home and make prints at Spike Print Studio, Bristol, working with household paints, biros, fine liners, pencil crayons and screen print.