Product Description

Most printmaking workshops ask you to work with specialist equipment and materials you will never use again outside of a studio. This one asks you to bring your recycled tetrapack cartons and uses a pasta machine as a printing press. My Tetrapack Printing Kitchen Edition workshop in Porto is a playful and genuinely sustainable introduction to printmaking that transforms everyday kitchen waste into expressive art, using simple tools and techniques you can replicate at home with what you already have.

We work through the full printmaking process using tetrapack as the plate material. You start by drawing and engraving your own original design into the surface of the carton, exploring how the material responds to different marks and textures before inking the plate and running it through the pasta machine to produce your prints. The process is experimental by nature and the results are always surprising, which is exactly what makes it worth doing. Throughout the session I guide you through every stage, helping you understand how to get the most out of a material that most people throw away without a second thought.

 

What you’ll learn

♻️ How to prepare and engrave a tetrapack carton as a printing plate

♻️ How to draw and transfer your own original design onto the plate

♻️ How to ink a plate and produce consistent prints using a pasta machine

♻️ How texture and mark-making behave differently on recycled surfaces

♻️ How to continue making prints at home using everyday kitchen materials

 

What’s included

🖨️ All materials, inking tools and equipment

🖨️ Your own tetrapack printing plate designed and carved during the session

🖨️ A series of finished prints to take home

🖨️ Full guidance from Marisa Grilo throughout the session

 

What you leave with

Your own carved tetrapack printing plate and a set of original prints pulled from your own design, plus a sustainable printmaking method you can keep using at home for free.

 

I am Marisa Grilo, a multidisciplinary artist based in Portugal working across ceramics, printmaking and expressive illustration. My practice is deeply influenced by nature, tactile processes and experimentation with materials, and I designed this workshop around a simple belief: that the most interesting creative tools are often the ones already sitting in your kitchen bin.

No prior experience with printmaking or art needed. If you are curious about sustainable making and want to leave with prints you actually made yourself, you are ready for this workshop.