Monoprint Day: Texture, Gesture & Etching Press

Guided by music-led exercises and intuitive mark-making, you’ll experiment with textured surfaces, abstract composition, and monoprint processes using an etching press before creating a large-scale A2 artwork.Leave with expressive prints, layered artwork, and new techniques to continue exploring at home.Suitable for beginners and creatively curious participants aged 14+.Food and drink is also available for purchase throughout the session from our cafes.Accessibility information for your visitMonoprinting is a form of printmaking that produces unique, one-off prints rather than repeat editions.Often combining drawing, texture and layered ink techniques, monoprinting is known for its spontaneous and expressive qualities, making it ideal for abstract and experimental artwork.Mel Perkins graduated with a Fine Arts degree from Derby University in 2019.

Based in Suffolk as an artist at Old Jet, Mel is developing her multidisciplinary practice, focusing mainly on photography, painting and sculpture.Describing making art as a ‘bodily and intrinsic process’, Mel works instinctively.

Materiality is as fundamental to her practice as theme and subject matter, and she explores each in depth.When work becomes too ‘ordered’, she intentionally seeks chaos again.

This playful experimental approach runs throughout Mel’s work, as she combines hard and soft, and different scales and modes of presentation.There is a questioning of two and three dimensions and the potential between them.Sometimes she also adds handwritten notes and musings, in order to bring an aspect of humanity back into her works.