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From 3-5 August this 3-day summer school will explore the possibilities of Botanical Printmaking, combining Eco print 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. 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
20-22 July: 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 3-5 August, 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 and combining simple monoprinting techniques and dive into some colour theory along the way. This hands on 3 day 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.
Print Studio
On 13, 14 & 15 of July join us for painterly & drawn approaches to etching with Jessica Crisp. This three 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! Visiting Edinburgh this summer? We partner with StayCity Aparthotels and they may be able to offer preffered rates to those joining a course over the summer. Get in touch via studio@edinburghprintmakers.co.uk for more information. Subject to availability.
Print Studio
On Sat 4, Sun 5 and Mon 6 May, this expanded laser cutting course will introduce the use of a laser and show you how to prepare vector files from your drawing or photograph. Explore how to cut or engrave a variety of materials such as paper, plywood and acrylic. You can start from original drawings or sketches, or bring digital files on a USB stick. Printmaking is not part of this course, although you will be given the tools to create laser cut substrates that you can combine with traditional printmaking at a later date. Participants of this course may be eligible for a relief induction to develop their practice in the studio. This expanded course will give you time to fully understand the laser cutting machine through experimenting in order to understand what it is capable of and to develop your works to a fuller extent. This course is suitable for those who have no experience of laser cutting, although experience with digital imaging is highly recommended. 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. Image: Morven Ferguson
Print Studio
From Saturday to Monday on the 28, 29, 30 September 2024 - 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 three-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 entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Image: Kittie Jones
Print Studio
From Sat 25 - Mon 27 May, this 3-day extended course will give you the opportunity to expand on the skills you will acquire by developing your prints for more time with the guidance of Screenprint Technician James Harrison, or taking what you have learned and creating a new multi-layered print from the beginning. After 3 days you will be comfortable and very familiar with the screenprinting process, and have had time to experiment with different inks, layering approaches and exposure techniques. Participants can produce a wide range of detailed marks such as painterly washes, linear drawings, stencil-cutouts, photocopied images, text and much more. Participants will learn the intricacies of the screenprint process, how to coat and expose screens and how to print several coloured layers onto onto fine art paper. This course uses waterbased inks on paper which are not suitable for printing on textiles. During the course, each participant will work on their own print, developing it from idea to final printed work. Paper size will be approximately A3 with the printed area being around A4. 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. Photo: Adam Wilson
Print Studio
From Sat 4 - Mon 6 May, join us for our Stone Lithography Expanded practice 3 day class with experienced lithographer and artist Alastair Clark. 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. This three day course 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 entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.
Print Studio
From 17-19 August 2024, learn all about Toyobo (or photopolymer gravure) with Leena Nammari RSA. This 3-day course explores Toyobo, an innovative new printmaking process that uses remarkable water-washable photopolymer plates which are both fast and safe. Toyobo produces results similar to the 19th century process of photogravure. This course will teach you how to utilise Toyobo to create both intaglio and relief process. It will also give you ample time to introuduce other flairs to your printed work like á la poupeé and chine collée. Although the course will be of interest to all artists, it is particularly suitable for those working with photographic and digital imaging who wish to produce high quality original prints. The course focuses on understanding the intricacies of the processes: exploring how to prepare images for the process and how to identify works best for each technique. The course is very hands-on. During the course, each person will produce one A5 image. The process has a high digital imaging content, explaining how to manipulate the image before exposing it to the photopolymer. Experience of Photoshop is advisable to make the most of the course. Comprehensive step-by-step notes will be provided. If possible, bring your laptop with you, and it is preferable if you have photoshop or photoshop express installed. If you do not have a laptop, please bring along photographic images either on a USB stick, CD, or as photographic prints to be scanned. There are limited communal computers at EP. Leena Nammari is a Palestinian artist printmaker based in Scotland. She has exhibited within Scotland and Europe, Palestine, and Australia as part of group exhibitions, and has had a number of solo exhibitions. She is an expert printmaker, in all aspects of printmaking, and though her ideas are predominantly analysed and broken down through printmaking processes, she has also worked in film, photography, bronze, and ceramics. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Fine Art Printmaking from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, where she also compelted her MFA in Arts & Humanities. 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.
Print Studio
From 3-5 August this 3-day summer school will explore the possibilities of Botanical Printmaking, combining Eco print 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. 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
20-22 July: 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 3-5 August, 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 and combining simple monoprinting techniques and dive into some colour theory along the way. This hands on 3 day 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.
Print Studio
On 13, 14 & 15 of July join us for painterly & drawn approaches to etching with Jessica Crisp. This three 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! Visiting Edinburgh this summer? We partner with StayCity Aparthotels and they may be able to offer preffered rates to those joining a course over the summer. Get in touch via studio@edinburghprintmakers.co.uk for more information. Subject to availability.
Print Studio
On Sat 4, Sun 5 and Mon 6 May, this expanded laser cutting course will introduce the use of a laser and show you how to prepare vector files from your drawing or photograph. Explore how to cut or engrave a variety of materials such as paper, plywood and acrylic. You can start from original drawings or sketches, or bring digital files on a USB stick. Printmaking is not part of this course, although you will be given the tools to create laser cut substrates that you can combine with traditional printmaking at a later date. Participants of this course may be eligible for a relief induction to develop their practice in the studio. This expanded course will give you time to fully understand the laser cutting machine through experimenting in order to understand what it is capable of and to develop your works to a fuller extent. This course is suitable for those who have no experience of laser cutting, although experience with digital imaging is highly recommended. 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. Image: Morven Ferguson
Print Studio
From Saturday to Monday on the 28, 29, 30 September 2024 - 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 three-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 entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Image: Kittie Jones
Print Studio
From Sat 25 - Mon 27 May, this 3-day extended course will give you the opportunity to expand on the skills you will acquire by developing your prints for more time with the guidance of Screenprint Technician James Harrison, or taking what you have learned and creating a new multi-layered print from the beginning. After 3 days you will be comfortable and very familiar with the screenprinting process, and have had time to experiment with different inks, layering approaches and exposure techniques. Participants can produce a wide range of detailed marks such as painterly washes, linear drawings, stencil-cutouts, photocopied images, text and much more. Participants will learn the intricacies of the screenprint process, how to coat and expose screens and how to print several coloured layers onto onto fine art paper. This course uses waterbased inks on paper which are not suitable for printing on textiles. During the course, each participant will work on their own print, developing it from idea to final printed work. Paper size will be approximately A3 with the printed area being around A4. 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. Photo: Adam Wilson
Print Studio
From Sat 4 - Mon 6 May, join us for our Stone Lithography Expanded practice 3 day class with experienced lithographer and artist Alastair Clark. 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. This three day course 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 entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.
Print Studio
From 17-19 August 2024, learn all about Toyobo (or photopolymer gravure) with Leena Nammari RSA. This 3-day course explores Toyobo, an innovative new printmaking process that uses remarkable water-washable photopolymer plates which are both fast and safe. Toyobo produces results similar to the 19th century process of photogravure. This course will teach you how to utilise Toyobo to create both intaglio and relief process. It will also give you ample time to introuduce other flairs to your printed work like á la poupeé and chine collée. Although the course will be of interest to all artists, it is particularly suitable for those working with photographic and digital imaging who wish to produce high quality original prints. The course focuses on understanding the intricacies of the processes: exploring how to prepare images for the process and how to identify works best for each technique. The course is very hands-on. During the course, each person will produce one A5 image. The process has a high digital imaging content, explaining how to manipulate the image before exposing it to the photopolymer. Experience of Photoshop is advisable to make the most of the course. Comprehensive step-by-step notes will be provided. If possible, bring your laptop with you, and it is preferable if you have photoshop or photoshop express installed. If you do not have a laptop, please bring along photographic images either on a USB stick, CD, or as photographic prints to be scanned. There are limited communal computers at EP. Leena Nammari is a Palestinian artist printmaker based in Scotland. She has exhibited within Scotland and Europe, Palestine, and Australia as part of group exhibitions, and has had a number of solo exhibitions. She is an expert printmaker, in all aspects of printmaking, and though her ideas are predominantly analysed and broken down through printmaking processes, she has also worked in film, photography, bronze, and ceramics. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Fine Art Printmaking from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, where she also compelted her MFA in Arts & Humanities. 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.
Print Studio