Gain a solid and practical understanding of screen printing, helping you to confidently create professional-quality prints and bring your artistic ideas to life with different techniques and hands-on experience.

  • Immerse yourself in a printing studio environment and gain experience in transferring your own designs onto silkscreens.
  • Team up with fellow creatives to develop impactful, colourful designs using a range of drawing techniques.
  • Create a series of prints of your work that can be used for personal use or to be sold.

Discover how to create big, bold and beautifully layered screen prints in this immersive two-day Beginners’ Screenprinting workshop. Using hand-drawn elements, cut-up techniques, rubbings, and textured mark-making, you’ll explore an intuitive and playful approach to image-making that translates into striking printed results.

Working with paper, scissors, and a variety of materials, you’ll experiment with cutting, tearing, layering, and surface rubbings to build rich, tactile compositions. These processes will form the basis of your designs, which you’ll then transform into stencils for screen printing. Along the way, you’ll gain hands-on experience in a studio environment and learn how to set up and transfer your artwork onto your dedicated silkscreen.

Across the weekend, you’ll explore a range of creative techniques to generate texture and depth, combining bold shapes with expressive marks and found patterns. You’ll work both individually and collaboratively to create large-scale, colourful designs, focusing on composition, contrast, and layering.

With step-by-step guidance, you’ll be introduced to the full screen-printing process, from developing hand-made artwork and preparing stencils, to exposing screens, layering colours, and refining your prints through registration techniques.

By the end of the workshop, you’ll have produced a series of dynamic, multi-layered prints, including collaborative pieces and your own original designs.

Ideal for beginners and those looking to refresh their skills, this course offers a supportive and creative environment to explore expressive screen printing through texture, layering, and bold visual language.

Overview

This course will take place at Locksbrook Campus, Bath, BA1 3EL.

The next courses take place: 

  • 6 and 7 June, 10am – 4pm
  • 13 and 14 June, 10am - 4pm

This short course costs £220 per person.

Please wear old clothes as the workshop can be messy, all other materials will be provided.

Meet the team

Kelsey Cruz-Martin is an artist with over a decade of experience in screen printing. Her multidisciplinary practice spans writing, sculpture, sound, print, and installation, often exploring material processes and layered forms.

She studied Fashion and Textile Design in Western Australia before completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Bath School of Art and Design in 2018. After undertaking the Freelands Studio Fellowship (2025/26) at Cardiff School of Art and Design, she has returned to Bath School of Art, Film and Media, where she has worked as a Screen Print Technical Demonstrator for the past eight years.

Terms and conditions

Read the terms and conditions for taking part in this short course.

Contact us

If you'd like a bespoke course created for your company, would like to attend but can't make the dates listed above or have any queries, please contact us on shortcourses@bathspa.ac.uk .

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