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Photo Plate Lithography Weekend

Weekend Course

On either 10-11 May or 4-5 October, experiment with all the freedom and subtlety of a lithograph without grinding stones and with minimal processing.

Explore layering images in colour to create painterly prints with a delicacy of mark and tone, characteristic to this medium.

This course concentrates on using light-sensitive aluminium photo plates. These plates can produce detailed marks such as painterly washes, linear drawings, photocopied images, photographs, digital images, and text. Participants will learn how to print their images in several coloured layers onto paper. Each layer of colour is printed individually, taking care to register each new layer of ink on top of previously printed colours.

Find out more about photo plate lithography on our YouTube channel here.

Alastair Clark

Specialising in stone and plate lithography, Alastair has over 30 years' of teaching experience at Edinburgh Printmakers, and previously at Edinburgh College of Art.

As Head of Editions at Edinburgh Printmakers, he works on print projects as a collaborative expert printmaker with invited artists, producing print editions for the organisation's publishing programme that are exhibited and sold all over the world.

Alastair has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, and was elected as a professional member of the SSA in 1997. Recent solo exhibitions include Dark Matters at Edinburgh Printmakers exploring themes inspired by astronomy, while Skylights drew inspiration from the Northern Lights. Recent series of prints include Eutopians which responded to Brexit, and the ongoing series An Island Time explored climate change.

Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets!

This course entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.

• Weekend Courses
• £220.00
• 10 May 2025-4 October 2025
• Print Studio
• Adult 16+