

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Painterly Multi-Plate Etching (on Steel) with Kate Desforges at West Yorkshire Print Workshop
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am – Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join artist, printmaker and WYPW Technician Kate Desforges for a hands-on, experimental approach to etching.  

This course is a great way to kick-start or expand your etching practice. For those who want to explore the wonderful image-making possibilities of etching outside the boundaries of the usual hard and soft ground, exploring aquatint on steel and multi-plate colour printing in a supportive group with a collaborative, playful approach.  

Start the day with some experimental drawing exercises to get you loosened-up, then work onto steel etching plates to create abstract images using stop-out varnish. Learn how to etch plates with copper sulphate, ink-up using a-la-poupee techniques and print two plates in-register to create multi-coloured, collaborative prints.  

Come along with an open mind, and a willingness to play!

An experienced etcher herself, your tutor Kate will guide and support you through each step of the process, and with only 6 students max on the course, you will have ample opportunity to ask questions. This course is designed to help you develop confidence and literacy in the various processes taught and gain valuable knowledge and skills to allow you to continue to develop your work using etching. 

At WYPW we etch plates with copper sulphate – a less-toxic alternative to the traditionally-used nitric acid. PPE will always be provided, but for this reason we do not recommend this course for pregnant women, or for those with known allergies to chemicals. Please ask before you book if you are not sure. 


The day will consist of :

AM 

Introductions, examples, explanation of processes we’ll be using.  
Experimental mark-making exercises to loosen-up, then mark-making directly onto etching plates using stop-out varnish. 
Etch plates, strip varnish.
PM 

Demonstration of a-la-poupee inking and colour rollovers, and printing two plates in-register.  
Students ink-up and print plates using the techniques shown, printing plates on-top-of and underneath each-other in random orders and orientations, to create a series of unique, collaborative prints.  
Your tutor: Kate Desforges
Kathryn (Kate) Desforges is a printmaker who creates process-driven, contemporary artworks which explore her preoccupation with ordinary, overlooked and in-between places. 

Her work germinates from a fragmented collection of drawings, photographs, memories and lived experience, and evolves through printmaking processes such as etching, lithography and woodcut, which enable a unique visual language. 

Material is important – carving, scratching and sanding back metal and wood reveals and covers up, helping to piece together fragments of ideas, distill and refine, and keep the physical act of making at the core of her practice. What results are re-imaginings – pieced together from snippets and fleeting glimpses of her everyday. 

Kathryn’s work is held in public and private collections in the UK, including the Tate Library artist book collection. She trained at Kingston University, and has undertaken artist residencies at Intaglio Printmaker, UK, Mi-LAB, Japan, and a Post Graduate Lithography Fellowship at Leicester Print Workshop. Ever-hungry to learn and develop new print processes, her practice has developed through a symbiotic relationship with her career as a printmaking technician and tutor. 

https://wypw.org/tutors/kate-desforges/

Experience level
Ideally you will have had had a taster of etching before – either with us or elsewhere – but it doesn’t have to be much. Perhaps you did etching many moons ago at college or university and want to pick it back up again and see what’s changed. 

Beginners with a little experience 
Intermediate / experienced printmaker 
Teachers / Educators
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/mirfield/painterly-multi-plate-etching-on-steel-with-kate-desforges-at-west-yorkshire-print-workshop/200029657622946
- **Event Categories**: workshops, art, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://wypw.org/product/painterly-multi-plate-etching-on-steel-march26/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=mirfield-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Mirfield
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: 75A Huddersfield Road, WF14 8AT Mirfield, United Kingdom
- **lat**: 53.6738
- **long**: -1.69546
- **full address**: 75A Huddersfield Road, WF14 8AT Mirfield, United Kingdom, 75a Huddersfield Road, Mirfield, WF14 8, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: West Yorkshire Print Workshop (https://allevents.in/org/west-yorkshire-print-workshop/12684129)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 75A Huddersfield Road, WF14 8AT Mirfield, United Kingdom, 75a Huddersfield Road, Mirfield, WF14 8, United Kingdom
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  - **A:** West Yorkshire Print Workshop
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