Printmaking stands among the most diverse and expressive media in the visual arts. Over the centuries, countless artists and innovators have expanded, refined, and adapted printing techniques, resulting in an extraordinary range of methods and variations.
The workshops I offer reflect my passion for traditional etching and engraving, combined with experimental approaches I’ve developed or learned from mentors, colleagues, and fellow artists throughout my career. Participants should have a foundational understanding of image-making whether through drawing, photography, collage, or other methods, as well as an enthusiasm for hands-on learning and creative processes.
I work in two formats, both grounded in the same idea: accompanying each participant in developing their own prints, rather than teaching a fixed curriculum. The Studio Season is a seven-week deep dive for a small group of up to five, concluding with a small afternoon exhibition at the Werkstatt. The Open Workshop is a weekly Wednesday afternoon for ongoing independent practice at the press. Both run at the Werkstatt Künstlerische Lithographie, Defreggerstraße 12, 12435 Berlin-Treptow — an artist-run studio where you work alongside me, a practicing artist, in the space where my own work is made.
Studio Season
Three times a year I open a seven-week studio season for a small group of up to five participants, concluding with a small afternoon exhibition at the Werkstatt.
Studio Season offers an accompanied practice: seven weeks of working on your own project at the press, with me alongside you.
Each season focuses on one a family of techniques with a shared ground: hard ground etching and aquatint, or drypoint and monotype. Together we discover how this set of techniques meets your own practice. Precise and quiet, loose and expressive, narrative, abstract, traditional, wild: intaglio answers differently to each and every one.
Participants move at their own pace, on their own image, with the group as a sounding board. The final outcome is one or two small editions, shown together at the Werkstatt in an afternoon exhibition.
Prior printmaking experience is welcome but not required. What matters is an existing working practice and a readiness to see how etching meets it.
What a Studio Season offers is accompanied practice: seven weeks of working on your own project at the press, with me alongside you.
Each season uses one technique family as its shared ground, hard ground etching and aquatint, or drypoint and monotype, and part of what we do together is discover how that technique meets the way you already work. Precise and quiet, loose and expressive, narrative, abstract, traditional, wild: intaglio answers differently to each, and the seven weeks are the time to find out what it has to say to yours.
Each participant moves at their own pace, on their own image, with the group as a sounding board. By the final day most participants have one or two small editions — four or five prints each, signed and titled, shown together at the Werkstatt in an afternoon exhibition.
Prior printmaking experience is welcome but not required. What matters is an existing working practice in some medium — drawing, painting, photography, collage — and a readiness to see how etching meets it.
Three times a year I open a seven-week studio season for a small group of up to five participants, concluding with a small afternoon exhibition at the Werkstatt.
Open Workshop
