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.
Introduction to screen printing on paper (course tutor Richard Peacock). This course will run on 3 consecutive 3 hour sessions on Sunday 23 and 30 November and 7 December: 10.00 - 1.00. £150 inclusive. The course will concentrate on preparing images for screen printing photographically and will include practice on printing both simple and multi-layered images. Fully booked.
3 hour taster session Tetrapak printmaking (course tutor: Stella Yarrow). £50per session. Sunday 25 January 2026 2.00 - 5.00
3 hour taster session Linocut printmaking (course tutor: Stella Yarrow). £50per session. Sunday 1 February 2026 2.00 - 5.00
Collograph (course tutor Caroline Elliott). This course will run across 3 consecutive 3 hour sessions. £150 inclusive of 3 sessions. Sunday 8/15/22 February 2026 2.00 - 5.00
Green approaches to printmaking (course tutor Stella Yarrow). This course will run across 3 consecutive 3 hour sessions. £150 inclusive of 3 sessions. Sunday 8/15/22 March 2026 2.00 - 5.00
Explore sustainable approaches to printmaking using recycled household materials. Stella will teach you new skills while encouraging you to express your creative ideas in an experimental and playful spirit. Suitable for those new to printmaking and printmakers who want to try fresh and innovative methods.
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 @stellayarrow2018
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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
Green approaches to printmaking - Week 1/3
Green approaches to printmaking (course tutor Stella Yarrow).
Make your own prints from used TetraPak cartons. Newcomers to TetraPak will learn how to cut, peel and incise on the TetraPak to create imagery, and then ink and print it. If you have used TetraPak previously, explore more advanced approaches such as layering and use of colour.
Green approaches to printmaking - Week 2/3
Green approaches to printmaking (course tutor Stella Yarrow).
Create colourful textured prints using household scraps such as foil, cardboard, bubble wrap and fabric. Incorporate botanical materials such as dried grasses and leaves.
Green approaches to printmaking - Week 3/3
Green approaches to printmaking (course tutor Stella Yarrow).
Make prints using your favourite techniques learnt on the previous two weeks. We will also explore printing onto re-used fabrics and papers.
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.