Develop your skills in letterpress techniques on this five-week follow on course.

Throughout the course you’ll have the opportunity to work with our metal type and wood type sets and various traditional presses to develop your ideas and knowledge of letterpress.

You’ll be encouraged to explore your own projects and work on existing ideas, with the support and guidance of the tutor. Along the way you’ll learn about letterpress context, history and technical terminology.

This course will introduce you to some of the processes you can access at Leeds Print Workshop and give you the basic skills to continue using them after the course. The tutor will demonstrate:

Monoprinting – using oil based relief printing inks you will produce one-off multicolour prints working with paper stencils and our presses.

Collograph – you will use collage to create images that will be printed using our our presses.

Explore screen printing onto blank tote bags and t-shirts. This one day workshop will cover:

Preparing imagery for screen printing

Coating & exposing screens

Mixing inks

Screen printing methods

Heat setting/fixing inks to make them washable

You’ll come away from the session with some finished products with your own design screen printed onto them and a whole lot of knowledge to continue with your own projects.

This taster session explores embossing techniques to produce subtle images on paper. 

The process uses no ink but creates raised and textured areas on paper using a range of different found materials. 

You will discover how to soak and use a range of papers to create embossed pieces using our traditional etching presses in the workshop.

We are excited to welcome Gia Ford to Jumbo for a very special in-store gig on Saturday 14th September, to celebrate the release of her debut album 'Transparent Things'.

For priority entry to the gig, pre-order 'Transparent Things' with us on CD or Transparent Vinyl visit this page.

The man, the legend and all-round artistic outlier Mik will be joining Jumbo Records for an intimate instore. 

Mik counts everyone from Iggy Pop, Gideon Coe and even Martin Parr as fans. 

He's regularly played Glastonbury and his lives shows are a mix of brilliant, witty songs and absurdist theatre.

Northlight Arts Centre and North Art are proud to be bringing you IV - An Abstract Painting Exhibition

Four prominent North Art artists come together to create a breath-taking exhibition that will be shown in the main gallery. From powerful and immersive landscapes, alchemic and delicately layered paintings, mesmerizing patterns and multi dimensional creations.

IV ARTISTS:

Join us for our next epic event at Northlight this September!

Our Eclectic Fairs are a specially curated mix of art stalls, crafts, and all things unique and creative. The venue will be filled with an enticing array of handmade/ vintage goods from carefully selected sellers based in Yorkshire.

This September we welcome back the team from Record Plant who will be bringing their handpicked selection of records from their store in Farsley. With live DJ sets to play all the best tunes throughout the day.

... an alt-jazz showcase : Bristol x Leeds

Snazzback 'Within & Without' UK Tour... hybrid jazz and bass music straight out of Bristol.