1 October 2025
Miss Siobhan Campbell, Head of Art
This week, our Upper Sixth Fine Art and Textiles students had the exciting opportunity to take part in a heat press workshop with artist Sally Pharo. Sally, who achieved a First in her honours degree at Central Saint Martins, shared her expertise and guided students through a wide range of innovative printmaking techniques.
The workshop began with the fundamentals, as students learned to print their own images using ink. From there, they quickly moved into more experimental territory, incorporating natural stencils made from leaves and flowers to achieve striking and unexpected effects. They also created bespoke inked backgrounds onto which they layered their images to produce atmospheric and dreamlike compositions.
As the day progressed, students explored their own imagery to push the range of experimentation within their coursework projects. This gave them the chance to test out ideas for layering and composition that will feed directly into future pieces, adding depth and originality to their personal work.
The workshop proved both technically enriching and creatively inspiring, and we are very excited to see how students’ newly acquired skills continue to evolve across their portfolios in the months ahead.