Print Studio | Aberystwyth Printmak

Our Print Studio

Aberystwyth Printmakers operates a printmakers’ studio just outside Aberystwyth in leafy Brogerddan. The studio is open to all members of the group. We offer a range of printmaking courses for beginners, supervised sessions for printmakers wanting technical advice and open sessions for experienced members.

The studio is currently set up for Intaglio, Relief and Lithography. For a full list of our facilities see the equipment list below.

We can do etching with copper plates using traditional wax grounds but we also offer the use of BIG an ink ground developed by Andrew Baldwin, the printmaking technician at the School of Art in Aberystwyth. This is rolled onto the metal plate and then cured on a hot plate or in an oven.

We can and do use other metals and mordants, other than ferric chloride. These are set up on an as needed basis in horizontal baths. In addition to etching the etching presses are also used for drypoint plates and for producing monoprints.

Relief printing – lino, woodcut, collograph etc – is done mostly on the Albion press. For larger prints, however, we have calibrated the Tofko etching press to take a wide range of plate thicknesses and we have used it successfully for relief printing.

We supply a range of printing paper, relief and etching inks, wax and acrylic grounds, tissue paper and newsprint. Our artists can purchase these as required.