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In this unique 3-day course on 8-10 February with Bronwen Sleigh RSA (elect), a visual artist and printmaker, create printed works in response to the rich local built heritage of Fountainbridge, which was once the city's powerhouse of industry. Working with Sleigh’s methodology and the beautiful process of etching and multi-plate printing you will have the opportunity to investigate our attitudes to space as expressed through architecture and its relationship to the landscape. This course will include an inspiring walk around the local area to collect resources, an introduction to Sleigh's working methodologies and her technical approach to etching. During the course participants will work on two etching plates using the techniques of hard ground and aquatint. Participants will produce one image using two plates over the course. The size of the plates will be 152 x 203mm (6 X 8 inches). Participants are encouraged to bring cameras, sketch pads, and other resources that will aid them in acquiring materials for drawing. On the day, we will provide archival materials, such as catalogues, records and photos of the North British Rubber Company and Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Ltd who used to be located in Fountainbridge, as well of areal shots, old drawings and maps of the Lochrin Basin and Union Canal from the mid 1800s to today. A 15% Early Bird discount is available for bookings made 1 month prior to the start date! Find out more about etching on our YouTube channel here. Learn more about Bronwen Sleigh here. This course entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills. This course is part of Castle Mills: Then & Now, a heritage project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
Print Studio
From 2-4 August this 3-day summer school will explore the possibilities of botanical printmaking, combining ecoprint and soft ground etching. We will gather plant material from the local area, looking at examples of commonly found dye plants around the Edinburgh Printmakers building and in the courtyard garden, discussing their properties and the colours they can give us. Ecoprint is the process of printing directly with plant material. During a steaming process the tannins in the plant materials will react to leave beautifully intricate impressions on the paper. Soft ground etching is the process by which we can press plant material into a soft tacky round and etch delicate impressions of the flowers or leaves into metal plates. Over the course of the summer school, we will experiment, combine and overlay these two processes, creating prints directly from the natural colour and shapes of plants. 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 Scotlands most experienced practioners. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! This course also entitles you to a FREE 4-month Associate Membership, which allows you to use the studio and consolidate your skills after the course.
Print Studio
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
Print Studio
On 5-6 July, combine plate lithography and monoprinting techniques in this exploratory 3-day workshop led by printmaker and artist Alastair Clark. Start by working on acetates with various drawing, painting, or digital materials and then exposing these directly onto an aluminium photo plate. These plates can produce detailed marks such as painterly washes, liner drawings, digital images, photographs, and text. Then delve into layering, printing plates and exploring how to build prints up in colours using lithography, combining simple monoprinting techniques and diving into some colour theory along the way. This hands on course will allow for a playful exploration of how to approach lithography in a creative way, harnessing the delicacy of mark and tone characteristic to this medium. 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 Scotlands 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. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets!
Print Studio
On Sat 5-Mon 7 April 2025, join artist Kelly Stewart for this unique course. The workshop offers an opportunity to focus on mark-making and drawings with the theme of Australian Flora. Tutor and artist Kelly Stewart has recently spent time in her native country and will be bringing back samples of Australian Flora as resource materials for this course. During this 3-day workshop, you will be converting drawings and mark making from day 1 into the screen printing process on day 2, followed by the final day of bookbinding where your beautiful flora inspired prints will become your very own artist book. You will learn how to combine layers of mark-making by using a range of materials to draw and paint directly onto films, which will then be exposed onto screens for printing. You'll also learn how to mix inks with a view to layer and overlap their imagery onto a range of papers. Subsequently you will be though how to hand stitch and bind your prints into a hardcover artist book. Do you already know how to screen print and/or bookbind, but are interested in having the unique opportunity to draw from samples of beautiful Australian Flora? You can book onto the drawing day independently here. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! 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 Scotlands 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.
Print Studio
On 12-14 of July 2025 join us for painterly & drawn approaches to etching with Robert Powell. This 3-day course provides the perfect introduction to the medium of etching focusing on its use as a drawing and painting process. The course will start with a technical grounding, introducing innovative techniques that encourage spontaneous and diverse methods of mark-making. Work directly onto metal plates, developing images through various hand-applied techniques. Using new safer acid resists makes etching a much healthier process, using neither dangerous acids nor solvents. Following that, you will have time to develop plates using both copper and zinc to explore images and ways of creating images exploiting their etcherly qualities. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.
Print Studio
From 20-22 September 2025. Kittie Jones, acclaimed artist and printmaker, will introduce you to this unique printmaking technique, all based around the discoveries made in her own practice. Initially, time will be spent exploring monochrome rub-away processes considering tone and mark. You will then be shown how to layer with colour to create rich and complex one-poff prints. During this expanded 3-day masterclass, you will be guided through the processes used by Kittie including working with layers of transparent colour and rub-away drawing techniques to create unique painterly prints. Kittie will share insights into her process of bringing lively sketches made outdoors into the print studio. Kittie Jones is an artist and educator based in Edinburgh. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University in 2008 and now works from her studio in Leith, regularly exhibiting around the UK. Kittie's practice focuses on drawing and printmaking - she produces mixed media drawings on paper, multi-layered monotypes, and small edition screenprints. Kittie is inspired by the full sensory experience of time spent outdoors, most often along the east coast of Scotland. Much of her work is completed outside, and other sketches provide a starting point for prints and studio drawings. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Image: Kittie Jones
Print Studio
From 19-21 April, benefit from an extended 3-day expanded practice course! Join us for our Stone Lithography Expanded Practice 3-day class with experienced lithographer and artist Alastair Clark. Not sure if you want to committ to three days? Try our Stone Litho Taster Classes first! Stone Lithography, the original type of lithography, is still favoured by many artists. Drawing directly onto a prepared limestone surface gives opportunity for a spontaneous approach to mark-making. Find out how artists with wide ranging styles, from MC Escher, Picasso, Jasper Johns, and Kathe Kolwitz, have delighted in the subtleties of the stone. Thiscourse gives a comprehensive introduction to stone lithography, and is suitable for people without previous lithography experience or for those wishing to refresh their skills. Emphasis is given to stone lithography as a drawing and painting medium, working directly on this wonderful robust drawing surface. Learn how to paint with water-tusche washes, achieving the astonishing 'reticulated washes' peculiar to stone lithography. Initially focusing on learning the process and working in monochrome, we will explore traditional approaches to mark-making using tusche crayon and wash as well as alternative drawing methods. Learn all about processing of images on stone and how to stabilise the image for printing before taking a number of prints to show the development of your drawing at different stages. Move on to look at how to add additional colours to produce layered colour prints. During the course we will work to aprox. A3: 28 x 38.5cm. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.
Print Studio
In this unique 3-day course on 8-10 February with Bronwen Sleigh RSA (elect), a visual artist and printmaker, create printed works in response to the rich local built heritage of Fountainbridge, which was once the city's powerhouse of industry. Working with Sleigh’s methodology and the beautiful process of etching and multi-plate printing you will have the opportunity to investigate our attitudes to space as expressed through architecture and its relationship to the landscape. This course will include an inspiring walk around the local area to collect resources, an introduction to Sleigh's working methodologies and her technical approach to etching. During the course participants will work on two etching plates using the techniques of hard ground and aquatint. Participants will produce one image using two plates over the course. The size of the plates will be 152 x 203mm (6 X 8 inches). Participants are encouraged to bring cameras, sketch pads, and other resources that will aid them in acquiring materials for drawing. On the day, we will provide archival materials, such as catalogues, records and photos of the North British Rubber Company and Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Ltd who used to be located in Fountainbridge, as well of areal shots, old drawings and maps of the Lochrin Basin and Union Canal from the mid 1800s to today. A 15% Early Bird discount is available for bookings made 1 month prior to the start date! Find out more about etching on our YouTube channel here. Learn more about Bronwen Sleigh here. This course entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills. This course is part of Castle Mills: Then & Now, a heritage project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
Print Studio
From 2-4 August this 3-day summer school will explore the possibilities of botanical printmaking, combining ecoprint and soft ground etching. We will gather plant material from the local area, looking at examples of commonly found dye plants around the Edinburgh Printmakers building and in the courtyard garden, discussing their properties and the colours they can give us. Ecoprint is the process of printing directly with plant material. During a steaming process the tannins in the plant materials will react to leave beautifully intricate impressions on the paper. Soft ground etching is the process by which we can press plant material into a soft tacky round and etch delicate impressions of the flowers or leaves into metal plates. Over the course of the summer school, we will experiment, combine and overlay these two processes, creating prints directly from the natural colour and shapes of plants. 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 Scotlands most experienced practioners. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! This course also entitles you to a FREE 4-month Associate Membership, which allows you to use the studio and consolidate your skills after the course.
Print Studio
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
Print Studio
On 5-6 July, combine plate lithography and monoprinting techniques in this exploratory 3-day workshop led by printmaker and artist Alastair Clark. Start by working on acetates with various drawing, painting, or digital materials and then exposing these directly onto an aluminium photo plate. These plates can produce detailed marks such as painterly washes, liner drawings, digital images, photographs, and text. Then delve into layering, printing plates and exploring how to build prints up in colours using lithography, combining simple monoprinting techniques and diving into some colour theory along the way. This hands on course will allow for a playful exploration of how to approach lithography in a creative way, harnessing the delicacy of mark and tone characteristic to this medium. 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 Scotlands 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. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets!
Print Studio
On Sat 5-Mon 7 April 2025, join artist Kelly Stewart for this unique course. The workshop offers an opportunity to focus on mark-making and drawings with the theme of Australian Flora. Tutor and artist Kelly Stewart has recently spent time in her native country and will be bringing back samples of Australian Flora as resource materials for this course. During this 3-day workshop, you will be converting drawings and mark making from day 1 into the screen printing process on day 2, followed by the final day of bookbinding where your beautiful flora inspired prints will become your very own artist book. You will learn how to combine layers of mark-making by using a range of materials to draw and paint directly onto films, which will then be exposed onto screens for printing. You'll also learn how to mix inks with a view to layer and overlap their imagery onto a range of papers. Subsequently you will be though how to hand stitch and bind your prints into a hardcover artist book. Do you already know how to screen print and/or bookbind, but are interested in having the unique opportunity to draw from samples of beautiful Australian Flora? You can book onto the drawing day independently here. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! 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 Scotlands 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.
Print Studio
On 12-14 of July 2025 join us for painterly & drawn approaches to etching with Robert Powell. This 3-day course provides the perfect introduction to the medium of etching focusing on its use as a drawing and painting process. The course will start with a technical grounding, introducing innovative techniques that encourage spontaneous and diverse methods of mark-making. Work directly onto metal plates, developing images through various hand-applied techniques. Using new safer acid resists makes etching a much healthier process, using neither dangerous acids nor solvents. Following that, you will have time to develop plates using both copper and zinc to explore images and ways of creating images exploiting their etcherly qualities. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.
Print Studio
From 20-22 September 2025. Kittie Jones, acclaimed artist and printmaker, will introduce you to this unique printmaking technique, all based around the discoveries made in her own practice. Initially, time will be spent exploring monochrome rub-away processes considering tone and mark. You will then be shown how to layer with colour to create rich and complex one-poff prints. During this expanded 3-day masterclass, you will be guided through the processes used by Kittie including working with layers of transparent colour and rub-away drawing techniques to create unique painterly prints. Kittie will share insights into her process of bringing lively sketches made outdoors into the print studio. Kittie Jones is an artist and educator based in Edinburgh. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University in 2008 and now works from her studio in Leith, regularly exhibiting around the UK. Kittie's practice focuses on drawing and printmaking - she produces mixed media drawings on paper, multi-layered monotypes, and small edition screenprints. Kittie is inspired by the full sensory experience of time spent outdoors, most often along the east coast of Scotland. Much of her work is completed outside, and other sketches provide a starting point for prints and studio drawings. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Image: Kittie Jones
Print Studio
From 19-21 April, benefit from an extended 3-day expanded practice course! Join us for our Stone Lithography Expanded Practice 3-day class with experienced lithographer and artist Alastair Clark. Not sure if you want to committ to three days? Try our Stone Litho Taster Classes first! Stone Lithography, the original type of lithography, is still favoured by many artists. Drawing directly onto a prepared limestone surface gives opportunity for a spontaneous approach to mark-making. Find out how artists with wide ranging styles, from MC Escher, Picasso, Jasper Johns, and Kathe Kolwitz, have delighted in the subtleties of the stone. Thiscourse gives a comprehensive introduction to stone lithography, and is suitable for people without previous lithography experience or for those wishing to refresh their skills. Emphasis is given to stone lithography as a drawing and painting medium, working directly on this wonderful robust drawing surface. Learn how to paint with water-tusche washes, achieving the astonishing 'reticulated washes' peculiar to stone lithography. Initially focusing on learning the process and working in monochrome, we will explore traditional approaches to mark-making using tusche crayon and wash as well as alternative drawing methods. Learn all about processing of images on stone and how to stabilise the image for printing before taking a number of prints to show the development of your drawing at different stages. Move on to look at how to add additional colours to produce layered colour prints. During the course we will work to aprox. A3: 28 x 38.5cm. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.
Print Studio