Courses
Running Jump Print workshop runs a range of short courses to provide opportunities to learn more about printmaking.
Places are limited to 5 people per course. Please note courses are for over-18s only. Click on the course title to find out more.
Collograph - Fully booked. tutor: Caroline Elliott - 3 sessions Sunday 14/21/28 June 2026 - 2.00-5.00 - £150 This versatile printing process combines both intaglio and relief printing processes for a broad and diverse range of mark making and printing effects. Suitable for beginners, intermediate levels or to full time printmakers looking to extend and enhance their printing practice.
Colour linoprint - tutor: Stella Yarrow - 2 sessions Saturday 4/11 July - 10.00-4.30 - £190 Two different ways to make colour linocuts: day 1 reduction; day 2 multi-block
Monoprint taster - 2 places remaining. tutor: Stella Yarrow Sunday 16 August - 2.00-5.00 - £50 Explore two different ways to monoprint - a simple and enjoyable way to make quick, expressive and spontaneous one-off prints
Drypoint taster - tutor: Stella Yarrow Sunday 23 August 2.00-5.00 - £50 Delve into the art of making an image on an aluminium plate and make an edition of prints to take home
Tetrapak & Recycled materials - tutor: Stella Yarrow Sunday 6 September 2.00-5.00 - £50 Make prints in imaginative and playful ways by repurposing used Tetrapak cartons and other household scrap
Introduction to Screen printing - tutor: Lydie Gallais - 2 sessions Sunday 27 September & Sunday 4 October - 10.00-4.30 - £190 This course will teach you how to use the cut-out technique, expose and coat screens, register designs accurately, and mix inks effectively. You'll also gain lots of useful advice and insider tips to help you develop your skills as a successful screen printer.
Our tutors:
Stella Yarrow - Stella is a member of the Running Jump Print workshop. She is an experienced printmaker and print teacher, specialising in sustainable print methods and in lino print. She applies a flexible approach to teaching, adapting her approach to her students’ levels of skill, experience and interests. Stella is a member of the Printmakers Council. She exhibits with Crouch End Open Studios and at galleries in London and nationwide. Stella’s work can be seen on Instagram.
Caroline Elliott - Caroline work’s as a printmaker and artist and is attracted to the quiet, overlooked or neglected elements of nature, cycles of the seasons, of the growth, of change and records elements such as copses, mosses, lichens, seeds, rare wildflowers or thicket berries in differing types of landscapes, ancient hedgerows or woodlands. Caroline is currently mainly working on collographs, for the sheer expanse of possibility within intaglio and relief combinations, mixed with block print, silk screen print, monoprint, photopolymer print, drypoint or hand painting. She is an experienced and engaging Tutor.
Lydie Gallais - Lydie graduated in 2003 with a master’s degree in printmaking at Camberwell College of Art and is also a tutor at East London Printmakers in London. Growing up in France and being surrounded by Impressionist works has influenced Lydie as an artist. As a printmaker, she loves mixing colours and textures together to see how they interact and influence each other. You can see Lydie’s work on her Instagram page.
Collograph printing - Week 3/3
Collograph (course tutor Caroline Elliott).
Week 3
• Show examples of Chine Collé and Á la Poupeé
• Make a new plate using Chine colle and A la poupee
• Make another plate using any of the techniques learnt
Collograph printing - Week 2/3
Collograph (course tutor Caroline Elliott)
Week 2
• Make a new plate using carborandums for darker tonal values
• Print plate and ghost print. Cut into ghost print and block print with it
• Cut another plate and print
Collograph printing - Week 1/3
Collograph (course tutor Caroline Elliott).
This versatile printing process combines both intaglio and relief printing processes for a broad and diverse range of mark making and printing effects. Create exceptional results from this easy and chemical free printing course. Suitable for beginners, intermediate levels or to full time printmakers looking to extend and enhance their printing practice.
Week 1 - Covering the basics of collographs
• Run through dry point, carving in, cutting out, taping up with a variety of tapes and glues. Varnishes, gels, wallpapers, fabrics, strings and other materials
• Print a plate, build on the plate and print again
Linocut taster course
3 hour taster session Linocut printmaking (course tutor: Stella Yarrow). £50 per session.
You will learn how to translate a visual idea into a design, transfer it to a lino block, cut it safely with traditional lino tools, ink the lino and print it. Stella will guide you in how to use a traditional relief press which gives a consistent high quality print, although we will also cover how to continue your lino printing at home using hand printing. Lino printing enables you to make multiples of the same design and you will create a small edition of prints to take home.
Suitable for beginners; experienced learners will be able to make a more complex design.
Tetrapack taster course
3 hour taster session Tetrapak printmaking (course tutor: Stella Yarrow). £50 per session.
Learn how to print in imaginative and playful ways by repurposing Tetrapak cartons, previously used for fruit juices, soups etc. You will learn how to create an image by incising a variety of lines on the inside foil surface, using the traditional printmaking technique of drypoint (scratching marks using a specialist needle). You can also tear, peel, cut, crumple and fold Tetrapak, making it a very free and versatile method of creating prints. Students will learn how to apply ink to the Tetrapak and print their images using a traditional etching press. If you enjoy experimentation, this is a great method for both beginners and more experienced printmakers to learn.
Introduction to screen printing on paper Week 2
Making and printing your own simple image
Lino Reduction Session 3
Session 3
Complete your edition of prints, in three or four colours
Lino Reduction Session 2
Session 2
Continue carving and printing your second or third colour
Lino Reduction Course Session 1
Lino reduction is a method for making a multi-coloured linocut print. The image is produced from a single lino block, printing a new layer of colour each time the lino is cut. Stella will guide you through every step of the process, including creating your design; how to mix and layer colours; carving your design onto an A5 lino block and printing it using a specialist relief press. You will create a small edition of colourful prints to take home. Suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
All materials provided. Wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy.
Session 1
Make your design and start carving your block. Print the first colour
Tetrapak Printmaking Taster Session
2 places remaining - Learn how to print in imaginative and playful ways by repurposing Tetrapak cartons, previously used for fruit juices, soups etc.