This exciting course is suitable for everyone from beginners to experienced engravers.
You will be working on polymer, end-grain boxwood and lemonwood to explore the potential for fine line and tonal engraving with specialised tools. The course progresses to inking, printing and hand burnishing the blocks on Japanese and European papers using both hand printing and an Albion relief press.

Participants may bring any objects, sketches or photographs that will suit small-scale black and white imagery. Soft pencils, a fine black permanent pen - and even a smart phone or tablet will not go amiss. For developing engraved imagery, coloured paper scraps, watercolours or coloured pencils may also be handy but not essential.
Edwina Ellis RE PhD
Edwina designed and engraved The Times masthead and the Bridge series of one-pound coins.
She researched colour engraving history for her practical PhD from Aberystwyth University and developed a range of wood engraving tools for Intaglio Printmaker.
Nine of her multiple-block colour engravings featured on a London Transport poster are now in the Museum of London,
Transport For London Museum and the Ashmolean, which has a major holding of her work. Other prints are in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal Mint Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum on the Mound Edinburgh.
She continues designing for the Royal Mint and teaches at Heatherleys, Chelsea. www.edwinaellis.co.uk