Explore an accessible, low-tech printmaking technique using recycled Tetra Pak to create imaginative urban or rural landscapes with artist Louise Dennis.
Taking inspiration from the British Landscapes: A Sense of Place exhibition and provided source material, you’ll develop a design and transfer it onto your printing plate.
You’ll experiment with mark-making using inks and simple tools to create either tonal or line-based images, embracing the natural folds and structure of the Tetra Pak as part of your composition. Plates can also be combined on the press to extend your design. There will be an option to add colour with watercolour washes.
By the end of the workshop, you will have produced a series of small prints (or one larger design) and gained a versatile printmaking technique that can easily be continued at home.
Louise Dennis
Louise creates inclusive, high-quality art experiences for all abilities, combining guidance with experimentation to make sessions fun, engaging, and exploratory.
After a fine art degree, she painted murals in hospitals in London and Cornwall, and later worked at Hove Museum as an exhibiting artist in residence, leading public workshops and coordinating family programmes. She also ran a popular after-school art club for seven years, using recycled materials to spark creativity. She is currently co-director of Starling Arts, delivering community wellbeing sessions and exhibitions for over-50s in Brighton.
Her practice spans paper model-making, photographed installations using recycled cardboard, low-tech printmaking, and detailed tonal pencil drawings. She also creates narrative work, including a short animation and a children’s picture book from her MA in illustration, and has exhibited internationally with Fabula, a collective she founded.
