Linocut and Woodcut: A Printmaking Weekend  with Nicholas Collins — May 3 - 4

Dates: May 3, 2025 → May 4, 2025
Times: 9am-5pm
Level: All levels

Workshop Description:
This in-person weekend workshop is perfect for both the beginner getting started with relief printmaking and more advanced artist, advancing their technique. We will be exploring both wood and linoleum carving, accurate registration systems, ink modifiers, tips on drawing for a relief project, strategizing for monochromatic and full color reduction printing, a look back at the history of relief printing, plus all the other stuff that comes up.

About the Instructor:
I was born and raised in Oakland CA where I was fortunate enough to attend the Berkeley Children’s Art Studio as a child which gave me confidence as an artist and respect for the process of creating. My parents were from England and I spent much of my youth over there, mostly in Sussex. I studied art history, drawing, and sculpture/studio at UCSB. I trained under master printmakers Kazuko Wantanabe and Emmanuel Montoya at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, where I did my residency.

I work primarily in reduction linocut which I hand press in limited editions—mostly one-of-a-kind but I also work in intaglio. My work is in private collections in the UK, Germany and across the US.

I teach linocut and woodcut printmaking and art history workshops at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto and at the Mendocino Art Center.