Time and trace: Drawing and printmaking course
Enrol
| Standard: | £150 |
| Concessions: | £135 |
Please book a ticket to attend this course which will take place in the Roden Centre for Creative Learning.
Tickets include entry to the National Gallery. Please arrive in good time to access the building and find the event.
Bookings close 10 minutes before the event begins.
Concessions are for full-time students, jobseekers, and disabled adults.
This event is open for Members priority booking until Sunday, November 23, 2025.
About
In this one-day studio workshop, experiment with drawing, collage and printmaking to explore how artists capture time, process and change, and how traces of making can shape a finished artwork.
Through close looking in the Gallery and creative sessions in the Clore Art Studio led by artist Thomas Gosebach, we’ll reflect on how painters across centuries have revealed their own rhythms of creation. From Leonardo’s ‘Virgin of the Rocks’ and ‘Burlington House Cartoon’, to Piero Della Francesca’s ‘Nativity’ and ‘Baptism’, we’ll consider how artists planned, altered and transformed their compositions, sometimes deliberately, sometimes spontaneously, leaving visible records of decision and discovery.
In the Clore Art Studio, you’ll experiment with drawing, collage and printmaking techniques including layering, erasure and overprinting to create your own mixed-media artworks that explore the passage of time and the traces left by the act of making.
This course is suitable all levels, from beginners to experienced artists looking to refresh their practice. All materials are provided and you can take your artworks home with you. Handouts with extra resources are also provided. All sessions take place onsite in our state-of-the-art Clore Art Studio in our Roden Centre for Creative Learning.
Your tutor
Thomas Gosebruch studied at HFBK in Hamburg and at the Royal College of Art, London. Originally a painter, and after a detour into sculptural ceramics, Gosebruch now works on paper. He describes his way of working as: ‘all about accepting and rejecting, after, while and before the hand touches the paper. About watching the impact on the whole – of the mark just made. Steering it and letting it loose again. Surprise provoked and enjoyed’. He taught in Nigeria and in China and for 21 years at the National Gallery and City Lit. He was the 2023 winner of both the Woolwich Contemporary Printmaking Prize and the Printmakers Prize.