Day Course: Linocut Tarot
Peculiar Arcana

Join Sussex Modernism artist Alexi Marshall and create your own tarot cards using the art of lino.

In this day course, you’ll learn the techniques and skills of reduction linocut printmaking using multiple layers of colour and go home with a deck of hand printed cards unlike any other.

Alexi will also talk about her art practice, the significance of tarot to East Sussex – the home of one of the most iconic tarot packs by the artist Pamela Colman Smith – and you’ll deepen your understanding of tarot, exploring symbology and archetypes.

The course will be restricted to 15 people. It is open to all with no previous experience of printing or tarot needed.

Technical skills you’ll learn include how to use different lino cutting blades to create a variety of marks, how to use rollers effectively to ink up your block and how to handprint your cards without a press.

Alexi will bring a range of esoteric books and tarot decks to get inspired, but please do feel free to bring your own material if you would like to.

All materials provided, along with ribbons to carry your packs home.

Teas, coffees and refreshments will be provided for a morning break. For lunch you could book into our delicious restaurant Light, visit one of the cafes near to Towner or bring a packed lunch to eat by the sea.

Alexi Marshall (b. 1995, London, UK) is a Hastings-based artist and graduate of the Slade School of Art (2018). Working across print, paint, mosaic and embroidery, her practice explores themes of womanhood and folklore.

Solo exhibitions include Nostalgia for the Mud at Brooke Benington Gallery (2024), Under the Pomegranate Moon (2023) Flatland Projects, Taming The Unruly Gods at Sara Zanin (2023) and Cursebreakers at the De La Warr Pavilion (2021).

She was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2024 and is a Guest RE at the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers for 2024–2025. She facilitates Peculiar Arcana, a community-focused printmaking project, and collaborates with Wysing Arts Centre on workshops for their Creative Youth Council.

We have a budget available to make this event as accessible as possible – this can include further interpretation services or other access arrangements we can meet to enable you to participate. If you require access arrangements, please email programme@townereastbourne.org.uk two weeks before the event date so that we can book a service if needed.

£80 General

£40 Concessions (people with disabilities, recipients of Universal Credit or Pension Credit and under 25s)

Free for essential companions