Build A Paper Animal Sculpture With Lino Printing (2-Part Workshop) - Firstsite

Workshop Overview

Explore paper sculpture and lino printing in this two-part creative workshop inspired by vintage decorative art and handmade animal sculptures. Across two sessions, you’ll build and decorate your own hare, cat, or dog sculpture using paper, recycled materials, paint, and hand-printed lino designs, working from a pre-made forma throughout.

Workshop Sessions

• Part 1 – Saturday 27 February, 10:30am-3:30pm: Build your sculpture using papier-mâché and recycled materials, then design a simple motif and carve it into an easy-cut lino block. Print your design onto A2 lining paper and leave both prints and sculptures to dry.
• Part 2 – Sunday 28 February, 10:30am-3:30pm: Paint your dried sculpture with gesso, cut out your lino prints and decorative details, then assemble and layer everything onto your piece. Add colour, pattern, and finishing touches to bring your characterful animal to life.

What You'll Leave With

You’ll leave with a completed vintage-inspired animal sculpture featuring your own printed motifs and decorative details.

Key Details

• No experience needed; suitable for beginners and the art curious.
• This is a two-part workshop taking place over two weeks, and participants are expected to attend both sessions to complete their sculpture.
• Food and drink is also available for purchase throughout the session from our cafés.
• This workshop is suitable for ages 16+.

About Lino Printing

Lino printing is a printmaking process where designs are carved into lino blocks, inked, and printed onto paper or fabric to create bold decorative patterns and repeated motifs. Combined with paper sculpture techniques, lino printing can be used to add texture, detail, and surface decoration to three-dimensional artworks.

About Your Tutor

Suffolk sculptor and artist, Caroline Corkhill, makes paper sculpture birds, hares, cats and dogs… an eclectic array of quirky beasts! She creates using eco-friendly materials, embellishing her sculptures with handprinted lino cut papers. Her decorated creatures are her current passion, although her past commissions have included large scale outdoor wire sculptures for the Helmingham Hall Illuminated Trail and Folk East Festival. Caroline states, “I’m really motivated by play, by colour and light. My paper sculpture animals are fun and a nod to folk art design from Nordic cultures.“