From 27th February to 1st March 2026
Make Your Mark
A free 3-day online printmaking event to help you loosen up, find flow, and bring expressive marks back into your art.
- Do you ever find yourself hesitating in front of a blank page or canvas?
- Making the same marks again and again – knowing something needs to change, but not quite sure how?
- Perhaps your work feels a little too controlled or overworked…
or you’ve lost that quiet thrill of making a mark that really works.
Sounds familiar? You’re not alone and you don’t need to push harder.
I’d love to introduce you the expressive marks of printmaking.
Because the truth is:
- You can print at home without a press
- The process will between you and the page can loosen your grip (and your thinking)
- Printmaking sits beautifully alongside your existing practice, making it more expressive, more playful and more you
Join me for Make Your Mark
I’m Ruth Ander, a Printmaker, Artist and Teacher. I’d love you to join me for three gentle, inspiring days of prompts, short videos and live sessions designed to help you reconnect with your mark-making and your creative flow.
This isn’t about mastering techniques or getting things “right”.
It’s about finding movement, freedom and confidence again.
Over the three days, we’ll explore:
Gestural mark-making
Letting go and making bold, generous marks using everyday tools
Textural mark-making
Transferring beautiful textures into your work and letting the texture do the work for you
Working with line
Discovering how expressive, lively lines can emerge even if you think you “can’t draw”
How it works
Each morning, starting 27th February, you’ll receive a short email from me with a simple creative prompt and a video to get you started.
Later that day, I’ll host a live session where I’ll show you how to bring marks together and create expressive hand-printed work. All sessions are recorded and the links will be shared.
You’re very welcome to print along with me or simply watch, absorb, and take ideas back into your own practice.
Ready to make your mark?
Register below to join Make Your Mark — and give yourself three days of creative permission, curiosity and momentum.
I’m Ruth and I’ve been hand printing at home, for over 20 years now
I’ve always loved the marks and textures of printmaking- and the best part – the reveal as you peel your paper away from your surface!
My aim is to guide you to finding creative flow and creating art that you love.
This event also leads into my longer course, Hand Printing Happiness, for those who’d like to go deeper — however the three days stand alone and are completely free.