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BLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOPS 2025/26

Join me at my home/studio in Peckham, London for one of my Block Printing Workshops | create your own block print design | hand carve your own block | learn how to print your own pattern.

More details on the workshops can be found on my workshop page | To book you can click the link below to find out all current dates

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You can now also give someone the gift of a Block Printing Workshop Gift Voucher | For more details please click the Gift Voucher link below

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Block printed bag Louisa Loakes — Hand Block Printed bag | Naturally dyed | Organic Cotton | Available in my shop now

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Louisa Loakes

Louisa’s work blends elements from her fine art practice and her intuitive approach to textiles. During her time studying at Wimbledon School of Art, Louisa developed a particular interest in abstract painting, which continues to ground and guide her work across a range of mediums.

Working from her studio in Peckham, Louisa’s practice is focused on the beautifully simple, slow art of hand-carved block printing. Having spent many years researching the craft, she draws particular inspiration from the processes involved in traditional Indian block printing, and her practice interweaves Eastern folk art traditions with forms and patterns familiar to western languages of abstraction. As a self-taught block printer, she approaches fabric like a painting - or one of her charcoal drawings - creating delicate, twisting patterns that repeat themselves across its surface. Distinctive in their simple use of geometric form, monochromatic palette and signature dash of hand-painted colour, Louisa’s hand-carved block printed patterns are charged with a human touch, the irregularities that appear in the printing process giving each piece a distinct energy and identity.

Louisa Loakes Block Printing Workshops are available through her website along with her hand block printed fabric per metre, hand block printed cushions and more recently her etchings.

Louisa Loakes | Peckham, london