Gel Plate Printing - Botanical Books with Karen Carter - Thurs 23rd July 2026

Gel Plate Printing - Botanical Books with Karen Carter - Thurs 23rd July 2026Thursday 23rd July 2026 10am 4pm Create a multi layered book of work incorporating gel plate prints, simple line monoprints, transfers and collage. We will use acrylic paints to create layered images using fresh foliage, masks and textures from a gelli plate. We will experiment with positive & negative images, ghosts and residue prints to produce a stash of work which we will then collage together into a unique concertina book, simply made from a

professional quality oil-based ink for block printing on paper

Instructions & a Practice Piece

Having studied design and illustration

and you will work with three or four A6 linocut blocks

The available sizes run numerically

While still damp

all projects should be allowed to dry overnight prior to heat setting

and she maintains a refined

For the best pressure

She is the artist-in-residence at St Martin-on-the-Hill

Use with a 32T or 43T mesh

will not skin over in the jar and clean up easily and safely with soap and water