Intaglio is a process that refers to the ink being recessed into lines of a plate which are made of copper zinc or metal. Once the ink has been pushed into the line of a plate or matrix is then put through an etching press with paper and the pressure of the press embeds the paper into the inked lines below the surface allowing the ink to transfer from the plate to the paper.

The traditional intaglio processes are dry point, etching, engraving, and aquatint. Each process revealing a different aesthetic. We will offer a beginners and master classes in intaglio.

Collagraph coming from the Greek 'colla', meaning glue, and 'graph,' meaning to draw. This is essentially a collage of materials of various textures glued on to a plate of card or wood; creating organic, textured pieces. 

Mono printing is a process where lines or images can only be made once. There are two types of mono printing one is where you lay paper down on an inked surface and draw shapes and images, peeling back the paper to reveal your mark making. Mono Printing can also be drawn or painted directly onto an acrylic sheet and passed through a press. This process allows for multiple originals.

The cyanotype process makes paper sensitive to light by coating it with ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide. Exposure to light reduces a portion of the ferric salt to the ferrous state, and a portion of the ferricyanide to ferrocyanide, resulting in a pale blue image consisting of ferrous ferrocyanide. After exposure, the cyanotype is washed in water, which removes the soluble, unreduced salts and leaves insoluble ferrous ferrocyanide behind. As it dries,
the ferrous ferricyanide oxidises to a deep blue, consisting of ferric ferricyanide and ferric ferrocyanide. 

Cyanotype images are permanent, except for a tendency toward slight fading and a vulnerability to alkalinity. 

Virtually any paper can be used for cyanotype printing, except for alkaline buffered papers. Untreated canvas and fabric also work well.

Photopolymer process also known as solar plate etching- is where an image is transferred to a light sensitive plate through light.  The plate is then rinsed
and dried ready to be inked through the intaglio process and passed through an etching press.

Relief is the process of inking the surface of a plate with a roller.  The relief process will have a protruding surface where the non-image is cut out of the plate this being inked and having firm direct contact with paper either by hand or the use of a press. Relief processes includes lino cut, wood engraving, wood cut, relief etching and some types of collagraph.

Etching is one of the oldest printmaking techniques that uses chemical action Acid bath to produce mordant (French for "biting") to create incised lines in a metal printing plate which then hold the applied ink to the matrix and is passed through the press.