Collagraph: Crows and Wolves with Shona Macdonald

Shona Macdonald is running a two-part collagraph printmaking workshop at the Museum & Art Gallery in Worthing, starting Saturday 5 December. The sessions focus on the atmospheric imagery of crows and wolves, and it's a two-part course, so you'll be coming back for a second date to finish what you start.

If you've never come across collagraph, it's a printmaking process where you build up a plate by gluing materials to a rigid support. That texture is what gets inked and run through an intaglio press. Over the two sessions, you'll make your own textured plates using cardboard and found materials, then print them. Macdonald provides the materials, though there's extra paper available to buy on site if you want to keep going. It's for ages 16 and over.

It's worth knowing that the crows and wolves aren't just a random choice for the workshop. Macdonald is also showing at Studio Gallery in Worthing, where Walking With The Crow runs from 31 October 2026 to 30 January 2027. She describes it as a mythical dark-forest journey populated by ghost trees, animal guides and imps, so the workshop sits right inside that same world. If you're planning to take the course, you've got plenty of time to see the exhibition first and get a feel for the kind of imagery you'll be working with.

The first session kicks off at 10:30am on Saturday 5 December, and each of the two parts runs for 300 minutes — five hours, so it's a proper day's work rather than a quick drop-in. Prices start from £120.75, with a £0.75 transaction fee on top.