ONE-TO-ONE WORKING

I offer one-to-one tuition that can be tailored to suit individual requirements and interests, and work with artists and designers advising on and facilitating their projects. Please get in touch if you would like to find out more.

FIVE-DAY COURSES

This specialist intensive 5-day course provides all the skills, knowledge and inspiration needed to create beautiful, high-quality printed textiles. You’ll explore every stage of the process, from design development, artwork preparation and screen exposure, to dyeing, screen printing with reactive dyes and discharge, fixing and finishing.

Taking place in Joanna’s spacious, fully equipped Glasgow studio – a 5-minute bus ride from the city centre, the course offers a friendly, supportive environment for developing ideas on cloth. Suitable for beginners through to experienced printers, it includes tailored one-to-one support before the course — online or in person for local participants — so artwork can be developed and screens prepared in advance, ensuring a highly productive week.

With a maximum of just three participants, you’ll benefit from individual tuition, generous print-table space and the support of a studio assistant. All techniques are thoroughly demonstrated, with comprehensive notes provided for future reference.

One of the few short textile-printing courses in the UK to use photographic screen processing, this course enables participants to achieve professional-quality results.

For full information about the course and how to book, please e-mail joanna

For dates of forthcoming courses, please also see the News page. Courses are run on an on-demand basis throughout the year, so if you are interested and a date has not yet been arranged, please get in touch to discuss mutually-agreeable dates. Courses usually run from a Monday through to a Friday, but can also be from a Wednesday to a Sunday, if participants prefer to incorporate a weekend.

What participants say about the courses:

“One of my best ever courses:
A completely new process for me was working with fibre reactive dyes and inks as my process is usually based on natural pigment. The 5 days courses Joanna offers ticked all my boxes. The one-to-one working pre course was very thorough – the design preparation and interaction allowed me to arrive feeling confident I had all I needed to achieve my goal. The studio set up was so professional and the extra help brought in made it really easy to work fast and efficiently, the very large print table was unique to allow large pieces to be made. The set up was informal yet attention to detail was very present. The process from start to finish was explained, demonstrated and tried, allowing note taking and practice. No instruction without explanation was given making it easy to retain. Joanna spared no time or effort to help us achieve our learning and outcome.I only learn from practising artists because also as I am also self-employed, my time is precious and I have to justify its cost. This course delivered more than I could believe. I have learned a whole new technique, I have the notes to carry on working, I made some beautiful pieces and had such a great time sharing.
I could only but recommend this course to practising artists, Students in textile, hobbyists with a desire to work at a high level of achievement.”
-Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw, Glasgow

“Course administration and details on course content are excellent and very professional.  The assistance and support before, during and after the workshop is also excellent, could not be faulted. 
I felt the assistance of someone helping with washing screens, steaming and washing fabrics etc. was a real luxury as it gave much flow to the workshop.  Studio facilities are excellent. 
The teaching of skills and the information shared is very good indeed. The standard of dyeing and printing techniques are very professional and of a very high standard compared with the evening class I just completed at my local Art School. Overall an excellent course and would highly recommend to others. 
I came away having met my objectives and confident to use newly learned skills in my own work.”
–Mary Malcolm, Aberdeen

“I thought your course was very well thought-out in terms of pace, organization & structure and that you were very generous in the amount of ‘out of hours’ work you put into exposing screens, washing fabrics etc. to ensure we all managed to produce a gratifyingly high standard of work by the end of a week. I learnt a great deal from you & thoroughly enjoyed myself in the process! Thank you for all your hard work and encouragement.”
–Susan Robinson, MCSD, MA(RCA), Belfast

“I just want to thank you so much for a lovely and interesting week in August. It was so nice to meet you Joanna! I certainly learned a lot!”
–Birgitta Wendel, Lund, Sweden

“I just wanted to say another very BIG thank you for a wonderful few days working with you. I enjoyed it so much, and got so much out of it.  Thank you for your generosity of spirit as well as time!”
–Lindsey Tyson, Textile Artist, Scarborough

“Thank you for a wonderfully creative weekend and for taking such good care of us with wonderful lunches and cake”
–Alison Cutforth, Edinburgh

“Thank you so much for all of your hard work and support during last week. It was exhausting, but so stimulating. It has certainly left me hungry for more and I do now intend to see how I can continue, either in my own studio or elsewhere”.
–Janet Dickson, Morpeth, Northumberland

EDUCATION

Joanna is available for talks and lecturing.  She has been a visiting lecturer at a number of colleges at degree level; she also gives talks about her practice to a wide variety of clients including guilds, community groups, arts organisations, colleges and universities.  She is happy to travel outside Scotland. Please get in touch to discuss your requirements.