Workshop Details

This intensive five-day workshop uses still life as a starting point for experimental printmaking. Participants will explore monotype, monoprint, collagraph, linocut, and unconventional matrices such as Tetra Pak, learning to combine processes, work with or without a press, and develop personal, hybrid prints. The workshop is entirely non-toxic.

Day 1 - Composition & Line
Explore strong visual structure through composition studies, followed by expressive line work using direct tracing monotype techniques.

Day 2 - Tone & Experimental Monotype
Develop tonal contrast and dynamic mark-making using additive and subtractive monotype methods, incorporating stencils and found materials.

Day 3 - Collagraph & Surface
Create textured collagraph plates using found and unconventional materials, while exploring overprinting, registration, and layering with ghost prints.

Days 4 & 5 - Linocut & Hybrid Prints
Learn linocutting and reduction linocut techniques, focusing on colour layering and registration, then integrate linocut with earlier processes to produce hybrid prints.

Throughout the workshop, participants receive ongoing guidance and constructive feedback, supporting experimentation from initial sketches through to resolved prints.

Skill Level

Beginner to Intermediate

About the Artist

Born in Italy, Colleen Corradi Brannigan completed her artistic studies in London, Tokyo and New York. A printmaker and visual artist, Colleen is known for her experimental approach to materials and process. Her practice centres on expanding traditional printmaking through unconventional media, most recently the development of a unique silicone-line technique that uses craft-based silicone liners to build raised matrix drawings. This process produces prints with distinctive soft-edged tones, expressive contour lines, and a tactile sculptural quality.

Her work investigates the intersections of drawing, relief, and atmospheric image making, often blurring the boundaries between print, mark, and imprint. She draws inspiration from material curiosity, repetition, and the physicality of the printed line.

Colleen teaches workshops and shares her process internationally, encouraging artists to approach printmaking through experimentation, play, and hands-on discovery.

What to Bring

Lunch, a snack and a drink

Workshop T's & C's

Please make sure to familiarise yourself with our Workshop T's & C's including Missed Classes, Deposits, Age Restrictions, Refunds, Participant Behaviour, COVID-19 and Class Cancellations.