About this Event
In this course, attendees will be instructed in Linocarving as a material process of Relief Printmaking.
This will take place in culturally significant church of St John's Waterloo as part of its Rivers of Life Festival program.
This festival offers the local community of South London a program of artistic and spiritual engagement through events and workshops. The festival’s thematic basis comes from rivers as both a symbol of life in the Christian tradition and community renewal in the Urban Landscape of the nearby Thames.
With this, St John’s is committed to preserving and protecting the history of London culture and nurturing its community’s artistic development.
This has direct and symbolic correlation to how Printmaking has been used, as one of the oldest and most immediate art forms, to preserve and champion individual artists, with often the medium and material choices reflecting local variations in cultural and historical context.
Relief Printing is a process that is as resonant and immediate today, as it was when the first printing press was created by Johannes Gutenberg.
The relativity recent induction of Lino as a relief material, proves that Printmaking is as still a fertile ground for artists’ innovation and exploration, as it ever was.
Fitzroy Schofield, who will lead this workshop, is a printmaker who has developed an idiosyncratic approach to Printmaking. He built this from gestural, intuitive sketching which he completed in small sketch-books rapidly. Fitzroy would then go over these free-of-flow conscious sketches with ink, helping me to bridge my vision from my sketchbooks to my prints. He would take this immediate imagery and apply it in greater detail to Linotiles/woodblocks, which I would carve and print.
Fitzroy will teach this workshop will use his extensive technical and professional experience to lead the group, curious yet previously unfamiliar to Printmaking, so that they can be immersed into the wonders of
Printmaking and wider self-exploration their own creativity.
Because of limited space, the workshop will be opent to 10 people only.
Please note there is a second workshop on Saturday 9th May 2pm - 5pm at St John's Waterloo.
About the Artist
Fitzroy Schofield (b.2003) is a professional Artist/Printmaker based in London. In 2024, he graduated First Class Degree in BA (Hons) Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art
School. That same year he was awarded as the winner of the Skinners Company Stephen Gooden Prize for Engraving.
Since his graduation, he has continued to hone his material diligence, contextual research and expand and deepen his artistic vision.
He has exhibited multiple times in London in 2025-2026 including at the Crypt space at St Johns Waterloo twice (Clouds of Witnesses, Four at Waterloo). He has an ongoing exhibition at Emanuel von Baeyer Gallery, All Aspects of Love, where he has also given a talk on contemporary Printmaking.
He has also held educational roles in Printmaking including as Artist in Residence at Holmer Green Senior School and an upcoming position as Visiting Lecturer at Imperial College London, instructing his unique Printmaking method.
He is deeply committed to making Printmaking more accessible for his London community as can be seen in his founding of Kite Press (Est. 2025), which aims to give greater affordable access to traditional Printmaking equipment, technique and process.
He invites all members of the public, without any prior experience of Linocarving or Printmaking, to come, learn and be immersed in this beautiful process.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St John’s Church, Waterloo, Waterloo Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00
