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.
If any of that sounds familiar, you’re not alone — and you don’t need to push harder.
Instead, I’d love to introduce you to a different way of making marks:
the indirect, expressive marks of printmaking.
Because the truth is:
- You can print at home — no press required
- Putting a process between you and the page can loosen your grip (and your thinking)
- Printmaking can sit beautifully alongside your existing practice, making it more expressive, more playful, and more you
Join me for Make Your Mark
I’m Ruth Ander — printmaker, artist and teacher — and 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 some of 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, you’ll receive a short email from me with a simple creative prompt and a short video to get you started.
Later that day, I’ll host a live session (recorded, so you can watch later if needed), where I’ll show you how I bring these marks together to create expressive hand-printed work.
You’re very welcome to print along with me — or simply watch, absorb, and take ideas back to 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.
If you don’t know me, I’m Ruth and I’ve been hand printing at home, for over 20 years now
I started printing in my tiny bedsit and since then I’ve grown in confidence and skill to produce art on paper that I now sell through events, galleries and online.
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!
I’m a firm believer in DIY and the low-tech, and I want to guide you to find creative flow, and create art that you love.
This event also leads into my longer course, Hand Printing Happiness, for those who’d like to go deeper — but the three days stand alone and are completely free.