Salvaged Impressions: Woodblock printing with Hetal Chudasama

Join Hetal Chudasama for a workshop that explores woodblock printing using unconventional materials.

Guided by Hetal, you’ll have the opportunity to make relief prints using found wood — reclaimed floorboards, worn wood, old wooden objects and other textured scraps.These surfaces, rich with history and natural grain, hold many stories and offer a playful and expressive alternative to traditional printing blocks.

Sat 9 August
1-5pm
Booking required
Tickets on a sliding scale: £7 | £5 | £2
Recommended age 16+

What to expect: This workshop is designed especially for beginners, emphasizing ease, experimentation, and the tactile joy of working with wood.

Participants will be able to take their time trying simple carving techniques and inking methods, and explore how each unique surface yields surprising and beautiful prints. The focus is on process and discovery rather than perfection — an invitation to connect with material, gesture, and chance.

The workshop will be for all abilities. No previous experience of printmaking is required.

What to bring: Inks, materials and equipment will all be provided. Participants are invited to bring small pieces of wood with them that they would like to try and print from. If you have any queries about an item you’d like to bring, then please email or call us: info@campleline.org.uk or 01848 331000

Refreshments:
There will be a break in the session, and we will have refreshments available at CAMPLE LINE. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements when you book.

Reaching us:
If you’re travelling by car and are open to car-sharing—or would like to find someone to share with—please let us know where you’ll be travelling from.
You can find full travel details here: How to Reach Us

Any questions?
Email us: info[at]campleline.org.uk
Call us: 01848 331000

About Hetal Chudasama
Hetal is one of our Creative Leads at CAMPLE LINE and is also leading on developing aspects of our greenspace. She is a visual artist and her practice encompasses diverse art forms and materials. She has spent the last two-three years developing an extensive new body of work that foregrounds printmaking processes and techniques, in particular woodcut and woodblock relief printing on traditional Japanese papers using found domestic objects and reclaimed wood panels. In 2024, she exhibited a group of prints in the Scottish Society of Artists 126th Annual Exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh where she received the Edinburgh Printmakers Residency Award.