Thank you for your application to join a printmaking course at this year's Marlborough College Summer School.

All materials and tools will be provided but I know some students like to prepare for the course during the coming months and so I have listed below some suggestions:

• Black & white sketches of things or places of personal interest;
• Old photos, news paper cuttings;
• Textured or embossed paper/card – e.g. wall paper samples;
• Pressed leaves, flowers, bark;
• Threads, cottons, string with interesting textures or patterns;
• Sketches or plans of any ideas that you would like to develop during the course.

Outline of activities for the week.

Monday: The introduction of the Collagraph technique of printmaking.

- using collage and intaglio

- design and assembly of individual plates.

Tuesday: Preparation of inks and registration sheets.

Inking up and burnishing of plates.

First prints.

Wednesday: Dry point plates and chine-colle technique.

Preparation of illustrations.

Inscribing of plates, inking up.

First prints

Thursday: Further prints using collagraph plates and a variety of colours.

Friday: Further prints using dry point plates.

Possible themes for use during the course:

Still Life

When I was Walking

The Stranger

The Deep Blue Sea

Pandora's Box

Please do not worry if time or inclination does not allow you to make such preparations. Just look forward to five days in the summer when you will spend a relaxing, creative and interesting time experiencing printmaking at Marlborough.

Looking forward to meeting you,

About the tutor:

Liz has been running courses in Printmaking over the past years at her own Studio in Inkpen, near Hungerford, in local schools as well as at Marlborough College Summer School.

She exhibits her work regularly, and with the Test Valley Group of Artists and with the West Berkshire Open Studios Scheme, also in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire. Her interest in Printmaking began originally as a result of attending a Marlborough Summer School Course while teaching Art and Ceramics at a large secondary School in Newbury. When she retired she set up her own print making studio. Since then she has developed new and original techniques often inspired by the area of natural beauty in which she lives.

Her classes at Marlborough are always well received by beginners and more experienced artists who are seeking to explore new media and techniques. Liz's courses are always structured in such a way that by the end of the week students have completed a number of pieces of art using different techniques.

They will leave with typescript notes and information on all the methods they have experienced together with a list of suppliers of the necessary materials used in order that they may continue their newly acquired interests at home.

Come and enjoy and have fun !

Liz has a beautiful gallery in the grounds of her house at Inkpen where her work and that of others is on show. See The Beacon Gallery website: - http://www.thebeacongallery.net/