PAUL CATHERALL Colour & Texture in Linocut
2 day course
13 & 14 March 2025
10am to 4pm
£250 including all materials
This two-day course concentrates on multi block linocut with Paul Catherall, who is renowned for his clean, bold architectural linocuts. You will create a multi- layered image using techniques of overlaying colours and creating textures.
Paul will also demonstrate his method for registration and techniques for fading & other textured effects. His prints are created entirely by hand in a painstaking relief process that can take several weeks to complete.
Paul draws much of his subject matter from London’s modernist and brutalist landmarks, including the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre, Barbican and Trellick Tower.
His commissions include the Royal Shakespeare Company, Southbank Centre, Penguin Books, Pallant House Gallery, Higgins Bedford Gallery and British Airways. He has been one of London Transport’s most popular and prolific poster artists, with artworks featuring Tate Modern, Hackney Empire and the wider London skyline.
In 2012 Paul was one of six printmakers to be commissioned by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee to create a print about Portcullis House, marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Paul is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. He has exhibited widely in group and solo shows, including at Eames Fine Art, Zillah Bell Gallery, Cambridge Contemporary Art and the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition.
Prizes include the Aberystwyth Print Purchase Prize and RE Guest Membership Award.
A number of his prints are in the V&A collection.
Course structure
Day one
• Introduction to the techniques and processes and view examples of Paul’s prints
• Explanation and demonstration of registration techniques
• Review of your pre-planned image for an A5 or A6 size lino block
• Carve your first block or only block if using reduction
• Print first colour
• Start carving second block or second colour on reduction block
Day 2
• Review of techniques such as creating texture and overlaying colours
• Finish carving second colour
• Print second colour
• Carve third colour
• Print third - possibly fourth colour
• Review prints
Maximum 8 places
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For all courses except CPSC Certificate course
Full payment of the course fee is required when booking a place. A reserved place is not secure until full payment has been received.
If for any reason you are unable to attend, we will refund monies paid minus a £20 admin fee, as long as you cancel your place more than 1 month before the course start date.
For CPSC Certificate course
Payment for Term 1 is required when booking a place. A reserved place is not secure until this payment has been received. Payments for Terms 2 & 3 will be due at the end of the previous term. Payments for Terms 2 & 3 will be due before the first day of each term.
If for any reason prior to the commencement of the course you are unable to attend, we will refund monies paid minus a £20.00 admin fee, as long as you cancel your place more than 1 month before the course start date. Once you start the course on Term 1 you have committed to all 3 terms. Course transfers are at the discretion of Curwen Print Study Centre.
There is an option to book your place for £100 deposit. If you choose this option your place is secured. The balance of term 1 will be due 20 working days before the start of the course. If you cancel more than 20 working days before the course start date, we will refund monies paid minus a £20 admin fee. If your place is not cancelled during this timescale, and the balance is not paid then the deposit is non refundable. All other Terms & Conditions remain the same.
Curwen Print Study Centre reserves the right to cancel courses – a full refund will be made in these circumstances.
