Established in 1984, West Yorkshire Print Workshop is the largest open access printmaking facility in Yorkshire. Nestled in the heart of Mirfield, we support, nurture and promote creative talent through the joy of making prints.

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Meet a member – Beth Leedham

Hi! I’m Beth – I’m a Textile Designer, a colour enthusiast and passionate about sustainability. [...]

27
Nov
News from the print studios – 20:20 Print Exchange

21 of our members have been beavering away over the last 3-4 months to make [...]

29
Oct
remote12, etching by Michelle Keegan
Tutor spotlight: Michelle Keegan

Michelle Keegan is no stranger to our workshop or indeed WYPW having received our Flourish [...]

29
Oct
Meet a member – Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh is an artist who lives in Mirfield and who creates visual and audio [...]

16
Oct
Becalmed – An exhibition by Sue Baker Kenton

‘Becalmed’ opens to the public on 26th September at Unit 2 in the Piazza shopping [...]

19
Sep
*NEW* Print equipment for hire!

We offer a range of printmaking materials to buy including paper, metal plates cut-to-size and [...]

18
Sep
Meet a member – Tom Ratcliffe

Tom Ratcliffe is an artist and art historian who lives and works in Brighouse, West [...]

17
Sep
New print initiative for kids : Postbox Print Club

Over the last few weeks here at WYPW H.Q. we have been working hard to develop our [...]

21
Aug

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Such a treat to peek at the process of fabric printing! You can watch the full video on @samgroom.printmaker’s page. These retro vibes are happily taking us into the weekend! #fabricprinting #printmakersofinstagram #fridayvibes #meetthemaker #Repost @samgroom.printmaker ・・・ This was a heart in the mouth moment this morning when I decided I just had to add one more layer to my section of fabric that I’ve been printing onto over the past few days. It’s all very typical of me, the screen is balanced precariously on the edge of the table and the ink is very lumpy. I’ve kept all the sound effects in and you can hear me sighing when I think I’ve made a mess of it. Thankfully it worked out fine! 😁
Such a treat to peek at the process of fabric printing! You can watch the full video on @samgroom.printmaker’s page. These retro vibes are happily taking us into the weekend! #fabricprinting #printmakersofinstagram #fridayvibes #meetthemaker #Repost @samgroom.printmaker ・・・ This was a heart in the mouth moment this morning when I decided I just had to add one more layer to my section of fabric that I’ve been printing onto over the past few days. It’s all very typical of me, the screen is balanced precariously on the edge of the table and the ink is very lumpy. I’ve kept all the sound effects in and you can hear me sighing when I think I’ve made a mess of it. Thankfully it worked out fine! 😁
On days like today, you definitely need a bit of colour on the grid! 🌧 🌈 This intricate, playful piece from Hazel Roberts is brightening up our day. You can discover Hazel’s process in our Talking Art session on 28 Jan #LinkInBio Repost @hazelroberts1 ・・・ #screenprinting #thistookfartoolong #printisntdead #printing
On days like today, you definitely need a bit of colour on the grid! 🌧 🌈 This intricate, playful piece from Hazel Roberts is brightening up our day. You can discover Hazel’s process in our Talking Art session on 28 Jan #LinkInBio Repost @hazelroberts1 ・・・ #screenprinting #thistookfartoolong #printisntdead #printing
Susan Wright’s new series fabric-based prints are really making us feel cosy on a warm Monday. Susan’s flora-themed works can be found in our online card shop, to bring a feeling of calm to the home of someone special. #Repost @suegrantwright2 ・・・ ‘Brocade’ first two in a series of prints based on fabric. Etching and aquatint. #etching #hotbedpress #theartworks #textilearchive #printmakers #wypw
Susan Wright’s new series fabric-based prints are really making us feel cosy on a warm Monday. Susan’s flora-themed works can be found in our online card shop, to bring a feeling of calm to the home of someone special. #Repost @suegrantwright2 ・・・ ‘Brocade’ first two in a series of prints based on fabric. Etching and aquatint. #etching #hotbedpress #theartworks #textilearchive #printmakers #wypw
Ready for the next one? Immerse yourself in an audience with Hazel Roberts, a previous winner of our Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking. Hazel started her image-making career as a painter. Now, in printmaking in her own words ‘offers an unpredictability, but a need for discipline and ruthless accuracy’ (we agree!). Hazel’s practice explores the personal, the political and always the playful. Hear what inspires Hazel on and off the printing press, and find out more with a round of Q&A to close the session. Date: Thursday 28 January 2021 Time: 7:30pm Duration: 1 hour Price: £3.00 (and you help us keep West Yorkshire printing). We can’t wait to see you! #printmaking #printmaker #printmakersofinstagram #chinecolle #artisttalk #artistsinspire #talkingart #artsinkirklees #creativekirklees #hereforculture #acefunded #acesupported #acenorth
Ready for the next one? Immerse yourself in an audience with Hazel Roberts, a previous winner of our Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking. Hazel started her image-making career as a painter. Now, in printmaking in her own words ‘offers an unpredictability, but a need for discipline and ruthless accuracy’ (we agree!). Hazel’s practice explores the personal, the political and always the playful. Hear what inspires Hazel on and off the printing press, and find out more with a round of Q&A to close the session. Date: Thursday 28 January 2021 Time: 7:30pm Duration: 1 hour Price: £3.00 (and you help us keep West Yorkshire printing). We can’t wait to see you! #printmaking #printmaker #printmakersofinstagram #chinecolle #artisttalk #artistsinspire #talkingart #artsinkirklees #creativekirklees #hereforculture #acefunded #acesupported #acenorth
What a year this week has been! This card by Jesmond Cat Designs is summing up how our head feels this Friday afternoon. We’ve got cards and prints in our online shop. Send a piece of positivity with a unique card to stay connected. #fridayfeeling #colourful #positivevibes #printmakersofinstagram #localartists #printedcards #handmade #handmadecards #printedwithlove #justacard #supportlocalartists
What a year this week has been! This card by Jesmond Cat Designs is summing up how our head feels this Friday afternoon. We’ve got cards and prints in our online shop. Send a piece of positivity with a unique card to stay connected. #fridayfeeling #colourful #positivevibes #printmakersofinstagram #localartists #printedcards #handmade #handmadecards #printedwithlove #justacard #supportlocalartists
Our Talking Art sessions will continue to give you your creative fix during this latest lockdown. Join us and Anne Desmet RA on Thursday evening for a dose of inky inspiration! Link in bio for tickets and info! ... Repost @anne_desmet ・・・ Zoom Talk with Anne Desmet on Thursday This Thursday 7 January, from 7.30-8.30, I will be giving a Zoom talk organised by West Yorkshire Print Workshop www.wypw.org @wypw. I will be talking about and showing lots of wood engravings - mine and those of many other British and international artists from the last 100 years, as represented in the exhibition I curated for the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, @ashmoleanmuseum. That exhibition “Scene through Wood: A Century of Modern Wood Engraving” was launched at the Ashmolean last year to celebrate the centenary of the Society of Wood Engravers www.woodengravers.co.uk @societyofwoodengravers. It is scheduled to tour other UK museum venues over the next few years. Its next venue should have been the St Barbe Museum, Lymington, Hampshire, @stbarbemuseum opening this month. Obviously, because of the new national lockdown, the show has had to be deferred; I’ll post the new tour dates when I know them. In the meantime, it would be great to see you at this talk on Thursday, which I hope you’ll enjoy. If you’re interested, you’ll need to sign up for it on the WYPW website and it costs just £3. #annedesmet #royalacademy #royalacademyofarts #westyorkshireprintworkshop #ashmolean #zoomtalk #societyofwoodengravers #woodengraversnetwork #centenary #zoomlecture #artisttalk #artisttalks #artistinconversation #anniversary #arthistory #arteducation #thingstodoinlockdown #newyearart #zoomgathering #januaryevent #dateforyourdiary #thingstodo #thingstodoonline #woodengraver #woodengravers #woodengrave #printmakingtoday #printmaking #printmakingart #woodcut
Our Talking Art sessions will continue to give you your creative fix during this latest lockdown. Join us and Anne Desmet RA on Thursday evening for a dose of inky inspiration! Link in bio for tickets and info! ... Repost @anne_desmet ・・・ Zoom Talk with Anne Desmet on Thursday This Thursday 7 January, from 7.30-8.30, I will be giving a Zoom talk organised by West Yorkshire Print Workshop www.wypw.org @wypw. I will be talking about and showing lots of wood engravings - mine and those of many other British and international artists from the last 100 years, as represented in the exhibition I curated for the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, @ashmoleanmuseum. That exhibition “Scene through Wood: A Century of Modern Wood Engraving” was launched at the Ashmolean last year to celebrate the centenary of the Society of Wood Engravers www.woodengravers.co.uk @societyofwoodengravers. It is scheduled to tour other UK museum venues over the next few years. Its next venue should have been the St Barbe Museum, Lymington, Hampshire, @stbarbemuseum opening this month. Obviously, because of the new national lockdown, the show has had to be deferred; I’ll post the new tour dates when I know them. In the meantime, it would be great to see you at this talk on Thursday, which I hope you’ll enjoy. If you’re interested, you’ll need to sign up for it on the WYPW website and it costs just £3. #annedesmet #royalacademy #royalacademyofarts #westyorkshireprintworkshop #ashmolean #zoomtalk #societyofwoodengravers #woodengraversnetwork #centenary #zoomlecture #artisttalk #artisttalks #artistinconversation #anniversary #arthistory #arteducation #thingstodoinlockdown #newyearart #zoomgathering #januaryevent #dateforyourdiary #thingstodo #thingstodoonline #woodengraver #woodengravers #woodengrave #printmakingtoday #printmaking #printmakingart #woodcut
And that’s a wrap! Another year completed in our beautiful workshop, standing proudly in the sunshine back in spring when we had no idea what was to come. This year we still managed to: 🖼 hold fantastic exhibitions 🎤 hold talks and demonstrations 📚 run engaging courses 📪 print at home with Postbox Print Club 💻 move our shop and events online 🙏🏼 secure funding 🙋🏻‍♀️ grow our team ❤️ grow our membership (thank you) 🏋🏼‍♂️ and just keep going all through one of the toughest years we’ve ever experienced! Thank you so much for all your support. We can’t wait to see what we can achieve together in 2021. Keep safe, keep creative and keep printing! WYPW team x #acesupported #acefamily #acenorth #hereforculture #culturerecoveryfund #creativekirklees #artsinkirklees #wypw #wypwmembers #artistswypw #artistssupportpledge #printmaking #printmaker #printmakersofinstagram #artin2020 #seeyouin2021 #sociallydistancedculturallyconnected #grateful #hopeful #cheerful #reasonstobecheerful #mirfield #yorkshire #huddersfield
And that’s a wrap! Another year completed in our beautiful workshop, standing proudly in the sunshine back in spring when we had no idea what was to come. This year we still managed to: 🖼 hold fantastic exhibitions 🎤 hold talks and demonstrations 📚 run engaging courses 📪 print at home with Postbox Print Club 💻 move our shop and events online 🙏🏼 secure funding 🙋🏻‍♀️ grow our team ❤️ grow our membership (thank you) 🏋🏼‍♂️ and just keep going all through one of the toughest years we’ve ever experienced! Thank you so much for all your support. We can’t wait to see what we can achieve together in 2021. Keep safe, keep creative and keep printing! WYPW team x #acesupported #acefamily #acenorth #hereforculture #culturerecoveryfund #creativekirklees #artsinkirklees #wypw #wypwmembers #artistswypw #artistssupportpledge #printmaking #printmaker #printmakersofinstagram #artin2020 #seeyouin2021 #sociallydistancedculturallyconnected #grateful #hopeful #cheerful #reasonstobecheerful #mirfield #yorkshire #huddersfield
Sharing stories, screen printing and social distancing - that certainly sums us up! Thanks for all your likes, we love them. #topnine #topnine2020 #printmaking #printmakersofinstagram #wypw #justacard #creativekirklees #artsinkirlees #temporarycontemporary #sociallydistancedculturallyconnected #supportsmallbusiness #supportlocalartists #creativechristmas #hereforculture #huddersfield #acesupported
Sharing stories, screen printing and social distancing - that certainly sums us up! Thanks for all your likes, we love them. #topnine #topnine2020 #printmaking #printmakersofinstagram #wypw #justacard #creativekirklees #artsinkirlees #temporarycontemporary #sociallydistancedculturallyconnected #supportsmallbusiness #supportlocalartists #creativechristmas #hereforculture #huddersfield #acesupported
With everything going on at the moment, and the anxiety 2020 or the Christmas period might bring, we recommend taking a Monday moment of peace and discovering this short piece by @armyofcats, one of our #WYPWmembers. Calming, creative and captivating. Take care 🫂 #wypw #artistswypw #screenprinter #printmaker #printmaking #printmakersofinstagram #mondaymotivation #mondaymoment #selfcare #artistcommunity Repost @armyofcats ・・・ I've uploaded a new short video on my YouTube channel (link in bio). It's the sort of thing I could have put together in a short post but I'm enjoying filming things and editing them together. I'm aiming to give these videos a calm vibe so viewers can escape briefly to my daft world of obsessing over colour and type and printed paper. Lots to be angry or upset about; you gotta schedule in those cat moments. Hope it works. Thanks for the support all. x #art #silkscreen #screenprinting #posterdesign #publicservicebroadcasting #PSB #YouTube
With everything going on at the moment, and the anxiety 2020 or the Christmas period might bring, we recommend taking a Monday moment of peace and discovering this short piece by @armyofcats, one of our #WYPWmembers. Calming, creative and captivating. Take care 🫂 #wypw #artistswypw #screenprinter #printmaker #printmaking #printmakersofinstagram #mondaymotivation #mondaymoment #selfcare #artistcommunity Repost @armyofcats ・・・ I've uploaded a new short video on my YouTube channel (link in bio). It's the sort of thing I could have put together in a short post but I'm enjoying filming things and editing them together. I'm aiming to give these videos a calm vibe so viewers can escape briefly to my daft world of obsessing over colour and type and printed paper. Lots to be angry or upset about; you gotta schedule in those cat moments. Hope it works. Thanks for the support all. x #art #silkscreen #screenprinting #posterdesign #publicservicebroadcasting #PSB #YouTube