Collagraph Summer Course
19-21 July 2025: join artist and printmaker Gillian Murray to develop with ample time your collagraph skills. This three day course will give plenty of opportunities to explore this technique. The first day will show you how to make and print your plate and the subsequent two days will give you time to develop the technique on new plates experimenting with chine collé, relief rolls, blind emboss and colours.
A collagraph print is an impression taken from a collaged and textured plate. The plate in this case is mountboard on which your image is constructed using a variety of textured materials such as embossed wallpaper, cut out shapes, stickers, stamps, tissue, etc as well as gesso, glue, grit and cutting to make marks on the mountboard. Once finished and sealed with varnish, the plate is inked up and printed through an etching press. This creates rich textures and an embossed surface.
Gillian Murray Biography:
Gillian studied Fine Art (Printmaking) at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen, graduating in 1993. After a move to Edinburgh she became an employee at Edinburgh Printmakers in 1996 until 2017. This involved working on print projects with a host of local, national and international artists as well as teaching courses in screenprinting and collagraphs. She now dedicates more time to creating her own artwork as well as freelance teaching and editioning.
In her own work she is facinated by the landscape from the textures and colours to it's form and composition.
She is a professional member of the SSA and has exhibited widely in Britain and abroad.
This course is part of our well-established and respected Summer School Programme, which gives printmakers of all skills levels valuable experience working with some of Scotland's most experienced practioners. It also entitles you to a FREE 4-month Associate Membership, which allows you to use the studio and consolidate your skills after the course.
Image: Gillian Murray, Inner Sound, Loch Carron, screenprint and collagraph, 2022
Course Times 10am - 5pm
Tutor Gillian Murray
Suitability Beginners
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Expanded Practice 3 day
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£305.00 -
19 July 2025 -
10:00 -
Print Studio -
Adult 16+
