Su France Print Making Workshop - Sunday 27 October 2024 10am-4pm

Discover the art of botanical printing in this calming workshop by local Printmaker Su France.

Join us for a day of:

• Learning responsible foraging techniques
• Creating unique plant prints
• Finishing your own concertina book or collection of prints

Let the plant's shapes and texture inspire your creativity, as you design and make a concertina book or mounted print.

Hosted by Harriman & Co. at our Burnmoor Street Store this is a private workshop and you will also have the opportunity to shop instore during the event. All participants will receive our friends & family discount off purchases on the day along with a complimentary Harriman & Co. organic cotton tote bag worth £12.

10am -4pm

BYO Lunch

Tea, Coffee, Water & Biscuits included.

Harriman & Co. 

14 St. Mary's Works

Burnmoor Street

Leicester 

LE2 7JL

Course Structure

• Health and safety information & housekeeping
  
• Introduction with examples of concertina books and mounted prints. (participants will have time to go home with one or the other.)
• An introduction to what sustainable foraging is, what to look for on a plant which will print well, how to condition a plant to get it ‘print ready.’
• Demonstration of how to pull a basic print – the background, the botanical detail, both combined. Participants will mimic this. 
• Demonstration of how print layers combining different colours
• Participants will explore different inks (as they have very different qualities) along with rotating their paper to print in different orientations
• Some participants may wish to stick square, or circular cut outs of their prints on a concertina book- demonstrate good gluing techniques and use ph neutral glue
• Others may want to simply mount a favourite print and keep the others as full sheet examples. Participants are given time to tape these into place.
• Clean up.
• By the end of the course participants will have a concertina book or mounted piece, as well as explorative test prints on squares of cartridge paper. They will also understand how to look after a brayer and gel plate should they take this creative activity up, post course. 
• Su will provide a list of stockists and notes explaining the print process, in the paper bag which people leave with.

Booking Terms:

In the event of a cancellation payments are non-refundable.

However, if the place can be filled, credit may be given to be used for future workshops minus a £15 administration fee.

To help with this, the cancelled booking will be placed back up on our website. 

Alternatively, if you’re unable to attend, we are happy for you to send a friend in your place, just let us know their name, phone number and email address in advance of the workshop date.

In the unlikely event we have to cancel or postpone a workshop due to unavoidable circumstances, or if we're unable to meet the minimum number of participants needed to run the workshop, we will endeavour to give you as much notice as possible.
I will happily refund the workshop cost, including any booking fee or transfer your booking to another workshop of the same price, space permitting. However, we cannot accept responsibility for any other costs, expenses, or disappointment. Please be aware items made at the workshops are intended for personal use only and not for commercial use. Su respectfully asks that no photographs of the processes are taken.

Harriman & Co. and Su France Designs take all reasonable precautions to ensure the Health & Safety of its customers. It is important that you are aware of others and their safety.