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If you are a printmaker or artist interested in becoming a member of our world class print studio, join us for an informal open evening. There will be a 15-minute tour of our facilities, and then you'll have the chance to speak to our studio staff and current members to get a feel for what it's like working in the studio. Visitors will also be able to join our exclusive members' event Print and Tell, which offers current members the opportunity to share some of their work and stories relating to printmaking. This event is free but booking is essential. We look forward to welcoming you to the studio!
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If you've recently done a class but haven't returned to the studio to do an induction within a month then your next step is to attend a refresher class. The refresher course is 5.5 hours of teaching time and is hands on. During this time we will run through the process in brief covering each step: plate making, registration, setting up to print, ink mix, setting up the press and printing. This is a hands on course so bring an image with you so you have something to work with on the day. Being a short class, we won’t spend much time with image development so it helps if you have something simple with you to work from. Time spent in Refresher Class gives you experience and counts towards your workshop induction so you become familiar with using the studio. Once you have attended a refresher course you will be eligible to take out a membership with all of the associated benefits. Who are refresher sessions for? - For lapsed members of EP - Printmakers with good experience in that process but new to EP - People who have completed a weekend course but are looking for some more support/assistance to build up confidence/experience before working in the studio Please Note: This course is NOT suitable for people with NO experience in Photo Plate Lithography - (our weekend access courses are intended for those new to a process) If you are unsure if you are suitably experienced to attend, we ask that you email us in advance of booking at alastair.clark@edinburghprintmakers.co.uk with the following information: - When was the last time you did litho? - What courses have you attended and where? - Do you have examples of prints you have printed yourself using this process? Please provide images if you can. - What other print studios have you worked in? Some people will be required to attend more than one refresher session before gaining access to membership and working unassisted in the print studio. This will be dependant on each individual's previous experience and the complexity of the particular print process.
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On Fridays twice a month, have a drink and get creative with printmaking. Soft drinks will be provided. You can bring a small amount of your own alcohol. This event is a great opportunity to visit EP, socialise and get inspired! It's a surprise, so on the day you could be doing one of any of the following techniques: Kitchen sink lithography - using some surprising materials found in the kitchen, and a little bit of science magic, you’ll create your own individual series of prints. Drypoint etching from the recycling bin - We’ve done the hard work for you and raided the recycling bin so that you can try out this rewarding technique using drinks cans/tetrapac/or plastic milk cartons to create a dry point etched plate to ink up and print. Instant Collagraph - create a multi-coloured print using this jigsaw-style approach to printmaking , using textured wallpaper and other materials. Word Up! - Using our extensive collection of wooden letterpress, you will have the opportunity to play with words using colour, layout, and pattern. Mono Screenprint - This free-form approach to screenprinting allows you to explore mark-making and colour spontaneously, using ink, graphite, and charcoal. Potato & Vegetable Relief Printing - carve and shape various vegetables to make relief prints.
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As part of the world-wide celebrations of Print Day in May, join us on Saturday 3rd of May at 12pm in the EP Gallery 1 for a talk and etching demonstration. Hear from one of our longest-standing Studio Members, artist Cat Outram, about her print Fragile Beauty. The print is currently on display in our exhibition Story and produced for the From Paper to Gold Folio celebrating EP's 50th Anniversary in 2017. Cat will walk us through the inspiration behind the print and how the prospect of the new studio in Castle Mills, Fountainbridge connected her to the urban landscape. After a short talk in the Gallery space, we will move up to the Studio for an etching demonstration, a great opportunity to learn more and explore this fascinating and historical medium. Learn more about other activities happening as part of Print Day in May and how to take part and have a chance to win one of the many prizes from the event's sponsors! EP partners with the WelcoMe App by Neatebox, supporting visitors in indicating areas of or specific assistance they might require. More information can be found on our website accessibility page. This event is part of our heritage projectCastle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
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As part of the world-wide celebrations of Print Day in May, join us on Saturday 3rd of May at 2-4pm for a Posters making workshop! Follow in centuries of paper-based comunication tradition and join us to produce your own personal poster, using letterpress and relief printing. Participants will be able to print several copies of their own posters to take home and share with family and friends (or even strangers!). We will also use one copy to stitch all our posters together and produce one large collaborative poster which we will print together in the main studio using our Mega Press, and display in our courtyard for the duration of the month of May. Learn more about other activities happening as part of Print Day in May and how to take part and have a chance to win one of the many prizes from the event's sponsors! Tickets: £5 will help us cover our materials costs. £10 will help us fully cover all workshop costs. £15 is much appreciated if you are able, as it will help us to continue our engagement work This event is open to all, children under 16 should be accompanied by an adult. EP partners with the WelcoMe App by Neatebox, supporting visitors in indicating areas of or specific assistance they might require. More information can be found on our website accessibility page. This event is part of our heritage projectCastle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
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On Sun 4 May, Sun 1 June, or Sun 8 June, Learn about Cyanotype or ‘blue print’ - one of photography’s oldest printing methods. Reminiscent of the alchemists of yesteryear, you can use a negative image on acetate, a drawing on tracing paper, or even real objects to create a stunning image without a camera. Leena Nammari is a Palestinian artist printmaker based in Scotland. She has exhibited within Scotland, 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, though 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 completed her MFA in Arts & Humanities. ABOUT TASTER WORKSHOPS Please note that short Taster workshops are not intended as stand-alone access courses. Due to the short nature of this workshop, we do a lot of the preparation for you and streamline the process so you get a finished print at the end of the day. This does mean that you will need more training before you are self-sufficient in this process and can work in the studio without assistance. To use Edinburgh Printmakers' open-access studio facilities, you will need to attend a weekend/evening course or refresher/induction class before becoming a member. How much further training is required is based on each individual’s previous printmaking experience. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets!
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On 10-11 May or 11-12 October, Draw on Gillian Murray's vast experience of working in collagraph during our weekend course, which takes place on a Saturday and Sunday. A collagraph is a print taken from a collaged plate. This weekend course allows ample time and opportunity to explore this deceptively simple and versatile technique. The course will explore making plates using different types of materials such as wallpaper, feathers, leaves, and string, sticking them down onto a piece of card which is then varnished. When ready, the ‘plate’ is then inked up and printed onto paper, creating rich textures and an embossed Gillian Murray Gillian was born in Perth, Scotland and studied Fine Art (Printmaking) at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, graduating in 1993. After a move to Edinburgh, she was employed at Edinburgh Printmakers from 1996 until 2017 running the screenprinting department. 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 fascinated by the landscape from the textures and colours to its form and composition. She is a professional member of the SSA and has exhibited widely in the UK and beyond. 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: Gillian Murray
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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.
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On Saturday 17 May, join artist Kelly Stewart for a day of drawing inspired by samples of Australian Flora brought from her native country. Interested in learning more about printing and bookbinding your drawings? Join us for Kelly's full 3-day course to learn about mark making, exposing onto screens for printing and how to hand-stitch and bind your prints into a hardcover artist book. Find out more on the event page here. Kelly Stewart Kelly Stewart studied Design (Visual Communication) in Sydney, Australia before moving to Scotland and joining Edinburgh Printmakers in 2001. Since then, she has worked predominantly in the medium of screenprinting as she finds it combines drawings, textures, and handwritten text unlike any other medium. Kelly has tried many other print techniques, but has a passion for screenprinting which she brings into her classes and workshops. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets!
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On Sat 17 - Mon 19 May 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 taught 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. Kelly Stewart Kelly Stewart studied Design (Visual Communication) in Sydney, Australia before moving to Scotland and joining Edinburgh Printmakers in 2001. Since then, she has worked predominanly in the medium of screenprinting as she finds it combines drawings, textures, and handwritten text unlike any other medium. Kely has tried many other print techniques, but has a passion for screenprinting which she brings into her classes and workshops. 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.
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Full Price tickets = 1 Adult + 1 Child Family Print Club – These Sunday Funday sessions are designed for different generations to share an experience, explore some printmaking techniques, and have some fun! This course runs on Sundays, twice a month. January 19th & 26th Printmaking with Lego - create images and letters using Lego building blocks. February 16th & 23rd Collage Relief Printmaking - celebrate Spring and make imaginative images using textured paper and materials. March 23rd & 30th Drypoint Etching - explore line and tone drawing using etching needles and sheets of acrylic to create your very own printed paper bank note. April 20th Try your hand at the colourful technique of screen printing with paper stencils. Fun, direct and colourful! April 27th Kitchen Sink Lithography - alchemy from the kitchen is put to good use to create litho prints with a touch of magic. May 18th & 25th Blind Embossing - create an embossed image with cut card and other materials, this is a process without ink! June 22nd & 29th Monoprinting Techniques - build up an image using a range of painterly printmaking techniques. September 21st & 28th Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - create some quirky selfie prints with a mirror and a felt tip. October 19th & 26th Prints from the Recycling Bin - try intaglio printmaking with some cardboard juice cartons and plastic milk bottles. Price shown per session. Book one session or more as required. Full Price: 1 adult + 1 child Early bird price: 1 adult + 1 child Less than 1 week in advance: £35 for 1 adult + 1 child. Additional adult £20 Additional child £8
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Join us on Thursday 22nd May from 6-7:30pm in our Gallery for a panel conversation on collecting practices. As part of our current exhibition, Story: Selected Works from Edinburgh Printmakers' Collection, we will be joined in conversation by three collection managers, Anna Hawkins, Andrew James and Kelly McMeekin, to reflect on how they use storytelling to bolster the objects in their collections. We'll discuss how oral histories, letters, archival documents, lore and curatorial research create context and a clearer picture of their artefacts. We’ll also find out about rare gems and surprises within each collection and consider the challenges in collecting and caring for Intangible Heritage. This panel conversation is a hybrid event for people to attend in person or online. The talk will start at 6pm in the Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery. There will be time at the end of the talk for Q&A from the audience. The zoom link will be shared with attendees who select the online ticket via email the day before the talk. Moderators: Meg Dolan and Kristina Royer, EP Collection Development Managers Panelists: Anna Hawkins, Museum Collections Manager, University of Edinburgh Andrew James, Learning Manager, SCRAN Collection, Historic Environment Scotland Kelly McMeekin, Manager of Museum & Heritage, Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage Learn more about Edinburgh Printmakers' public programme connected to the Story: Selected Works from Edinburgh Printmakers' Collection and Impressions: Selected Works From Jerwood Collection on our events page. EP partners with the WelcoMe App by Neatebox, supporting visitors in indicating areas of or specific assistance they might require. More information can be found on our website accessibility page. This event is part of our heritage project Castle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
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As part of our current exhibitions (Story: Selected Works from Edinburgh Printmakers Collection and Impressions: Selected Works from Jerwood Collection), we invite you to join the first instalment of our reading group ‘From Plate to Page’ to reflect on some of the many histories within the medium of print. Join us on Thursday 29th May from 6-7pm for a relaxed, non-academic conversation engaging with texts that look at printmaking’s role within social justice, emancipation, identity and self-expression. All readings will be shared with attendees when purchasing a free ticket. Reading material: Baines, Jess. ‘A Darn Good Idea: Feminist Printers and the Women Liberation Movement in Britain’, in Natural Enemies of Books: A Messy History of Women in Printing and Typography. Edited by Maryam Fanni, Matilda Flodmark , Sara Kaaman. Published by Occasional Papers, 2020. Bockis, Asnate, Karin de Jong, Ash Kilmartin and Abhaya Mistry, Paper, zine published by PrintRoom in 2020 www.printroom.org Harding, Richard. ‘Print as Other: the future is queer’ in Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking. Edited by Rith Pelzer-Montada. Published by Manchester University Press, 2018. Extra reading: Herman, Daniel F. 'Edinburgh Printmakers and the notion of the workshop', in Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking. Edited by Rith Pelzer-Montada. Published by Manchester University Press, 2018. While some of the readings might be of an academic nature, this reading group is open to all and we will support each other, exploring the material together in an informal conversation. This event is free for all to attend, if you'd like and are able to support us with a donation ticket it is much appreciated as it will help us to continue our engagement work. This event is part of our heritage project Castle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
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On the last weekend of the month, learn all about the dynamic and colorful process of screenprinting. This type of stencil can produce detailed marks such as painterly washes, linear drawings, photocopied images, and text. Participants will learn how to print their image in several coloured layers onto paper. To print, the screen is attached to a printing press, and acrylic based ink is pushed through the screen mesh onto paper using a squeegee blade. Each layer of colour is printed individually, taking care to register each new layer of ink on top of previously printed colours. During the course, each participant will work on their own print, creating 3-4 layers of colour onto paper. The process is explored through hands-on practice where participants learn the practical skills involved in making a screenprint. Paper size (& maximum image size) on the course is approximately 28 x 38cm. This course uses water-based inks on paper which are not suitable for printing on textiles. James Harrison Over the past 10 years, James has been honing his screenprint craft by working on both personal and commercial print project on a variety of mediums, but his specialty lies in creating high-end screenprints on paper. With over 6 years of teaching experience, James' enthusiasm for teaching the art of screenprinting provides him with a constant source of motivation and inspiration for his practice. In early 2015, James started a self-initiated project with his brother called Under the Skin with the mission to engage people of all ages through innovative design and interactive screenprints. In 2018 James was awarded a QEST scholarship where he trained under expert printmaker Scott Campbell to produce screenprint editions for world-renowned artists such as Alasdair Gray. In 2022 James joined the Edinburgh Printmakers team as a Screenprint Technician, where he runs the screenprint department, produces screenprint editions, and teaches a wide variety of screenprint workshops. Booking over a month in advance? Use our Early Bird tickets for 15% off! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use in the studio and consolidate your skills. Learn more about screen printing on our YouTube channel here.
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Etching Weekend Courses provide the perfect introduction to etching, introducing innovative techniques that encourage spontaneous and diverse methods of mark-making. They take place Saturday-Sunday on the following dates: 15&16 March 2025 14&15 June 2025 27&28 September 2025 22&23 November 2025 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. During the course participants will work on two etching plates, one copper and one zinc, introducing them to both of the metals and the mordants most commonly used at Edinburgh Printmakers. Participants will produce two images over the course (one on each metal) making use of a combination of techniques in each plate. The size of the plates will be 152 x 203mm (6 X 8 inches) A 15% Early Bird discount is available for bookings made 1 month prior to the start date! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Find out more about etching on our YouTube channel here.
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Join us on Sunday 15th June at 2pm-4pm in the Edinburgh Printmakers Learning Studio and try your hand at creating a unique paper puzzle, hidden message zine or sculptural print. This workshop, led by artist printmaker Scott Baxter, will incorporate a variety of communication histories to create narrative paper sculptures. Participants will create works that incorporate sculptural forms, images, text, and narrative. The first part of the workshop will explore the making of several forms of folded small paper sculptures.While the second part will focus on participants adding imagery and text to the sculptures, considering how these are applied as a cohesive part of the work. At the end of the workshop participants will be able to take home their own sculptures and will be provided with worksheets to make more in their own time. All materials will be supplied; however, participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchbooks/notebooks with ideas to incorporate into the works.Found images, materials, favourite art methods, magazines and other supplies can also be useful to bring, but not essential. We will offer plenty of materials to be inspired by, and to learn more about the histories of self-publishing. Tickets: £5 will help us cover our materials costs. £10 will help us fully cover all workshop costs. £15 is much appreciated if you are able, as it will help us to continue our engagement work This event is part of our heritage projectCastle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
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Explore ways of creating striking images with this simple yet powerful print medium process. Relief Printing Weekends happen on a Saturday and a Sunday on the following dates: 19 & 20 April 2025 21 & 22 June 2025 13 & 14 September 2025 18 & 19 October 2025 6 & 7 December 2025 Cutting images into wood or linoleum and inking up with colour can produce bold dramatic effects. This course will explore the diverse range of ways which artists use this direct process, looking at the practicalities of reduction printing (printing multiple layers from the same block, revealing colours through carving). Please note - from 27 July 2025, this course will slightly change to have an emphasis on working with wood. It will be titled Wood Cut Printing Weekend, and will cover the same techniques but will give you more insight into working with the subtlety of wood, its grain, and how to print multiple colours with it. The skills learned will also be applicable to lino printing. This course is very hands-on, practical, and fun. You will be trying out lino and/or Japanese ply to cut from and explore the benefits of using different types so paper for printing. Bring a sketch or a simple digital file we can print out. The image size will be up to a maximum of A4. Tools will be provided but if you have your own tools please feel free to bring them with you! You can find out more about relief printing on our YouTube channel, here. 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: Anupa Gardner
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From Sat 21-Sun 22 June, students will explore a combination of mark-making, drawing, and found imagery to layer up in the screenprint process over a 2 day workshop by artist and printmaker Kelly Stewart. Benefit from Kelly's unique and wonderful style of creating by working closely with her to learn about screenprinting from a loose and painterly perspective. Bring along drawings, ideas, and source material to be developed into a print. Individual layers will be exposed onto screens and printed by hand, creating imagery with a view to exploration and experimentation. Participants will receive guidance and support to produce unique multi-layered prints while having a great time in the process. Booking over a month in advance? Use our Early Bird tickets for 15% off! This course also entitles you to 3-months FREE Associate Membership in our studio to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Kelly Stewart Kelly Stewart studied Design (Visual Communication) in Sydney, Australia before moving to Scotland and joining Edinburgh Printmakers in 2001. Since then, she has worked predominantly in the medium of screenprinting as she finds it combines drawings, textures, and handwritten text unlike any other medium. Kelly has tried many other print techniques, but has a passion for screenprinting which she brings into her classes and workshops. Image: Kelly Stewart
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On either 28-29 Jun or 25-26 November, work with acclaimed printmaker and artist Angie Lewin to create your own beautiful and delicate wood engravings. Wood engraving is a relief printmaking process which, in contrast to woodcut, is generally smaller scale and involves engraving into the end-grain of a prepared woodblock. This method can reproduce fine detail and create a lively graphic image. During this course, you will produce a black and white print having learnt all stages of the process: transferring your initial drawing onto your woodblock, learning how to use the different engraving tools to create texture and line, and finally making prints from your woodblock. Wood engraving is a slow but satisfying process. Ideally you may have some drawing skills to benefit from this workshop, but this is not essential, and this course will suit all artists. 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.
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On 5-7 July, combine plate lithography and monoprinting techniques in this exploratory 3-day workshop led by Edinburgh Printmakers' Head of Editions, 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 you will 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. 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 explores climate change. 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!
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On 12-14 July join us for Drawn & Painterly 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. Working directly onto metal plates, you will develop 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 both copper and zinc plates to explore 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.
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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 and develop your work. 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 Gillian was born in Perth, Scotland and studied Fine Art (Printmaking) at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, graduating in 1993. After a mvoe to Edinburgh, she was employed at Edinburgh Printmakers from 1996 until 2017 running the screenprinting department. 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 fascinated by the landscape from the tectures and colours to its form and composition. She is a professional member of the SSA and has exhibited widely in the UK and beyond. 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
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Taking place from 26-29 July, this 4-day expanded practice summer course will give you the opportunity to develop your prints over 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 4 days, you will be comfortable and very familiar with the screenprinting process, and will 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.. 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. This course uses water-based prints on paper which are not suitable for printing on textiles. James Harrison Over the past 10 years, James has been honing his screenprint craft by working on both personal and commercial print project on a variety of mediums, but his specialty lies in creating high-end screenprints on paper. With over 6 years of teaching experience, James' enthusiasm for teaching the art of screenprinting provides him with a constant source of motivation and inspiration for his practice. In early 2015, James started a self-initiated project with his brother called Under the Skin with the mission to engage people of all ages through innovative design and interactive screenprints. In 2018 James was awarded a QEST scholarship where he trained under expert printmaker Scott Campbell to produce screenprint editions for world-renowned artists such as Alasdair Gray. In 2022 James joined the Edinburgh Printmakers team as a Screenprint Technician, where he runs the screenprint department, produces screenprint editions, and teaches a wide variety of screenprint workshops. 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, which allows you to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Image: Adam Wilson
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From Saturday 9 - Tuesday 12 August, explore ways of creating striking images with this simple yet powerful print medium process. Cutting images into wood or linoleum and inking up with colour can produce bold and dramatic effects. During this course participants will explore the practicalities of reduction printing using both Japanese ply and multi block printing using etched lino to explore the benefits of using different types of paper for printing. You will be shown various methods of registration, and print a small edition. This 4-day course is very hands-on, practical and fun. Bring a sketch or a simple digital printout. The image size will be up to a maximum of A4. 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. Anupa Gardner is an Indian born artist based in Scotland working mainly in the field of printmaking. She graduated from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, India, where she studied graphic design. Thereafter she moved to Scotland, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art with an MA in 2008. Anupa has taken on various roles in her career as designer, illustrator, educator, technician and editioner. She now concentrates on her own practice and continues to teach in Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Printmakers. She also delivers a variety of workshops across Scotland. Image: Anupa Gardner
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From Wed 16 April or Wed 3 September, taking place over a series of 6 consecutive Wednesday evenings, this course provides the perfect introduction to etching, exploring innovative techniques that encourage spontaneous and diverse methods of mark-making. The first class of each course will take place on the following dates: 16 April 2025 3 September 2025 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. Find out more about etching on our YouTube channel here. 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.
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Join us on 6-7 September and learn all about Toyobo (or photopolymer gravure) with Leena Nammari RSA. 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. 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 in the studio. Leena Nammari is a Palestinian artist printmaker based in Scotland. She has exhibited within Scotland, Europe, Palestine, and Australia as part of group exhibitions and has had several solo exhibitions. She is an expert printmaker in all aspects of printmaking, though 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 also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.
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On 5-6 April or 13-14 September, learn how to print using the mokulito technique, also know as wood lithography - a unique form of printmaking. Developed in Japan in the 1970s, the process uses plywood as the printing surface and draws on the principles of lithography, specifically the antipathy between grease and water. Greasy materials, such as tusche, crayons, and autographic inks, are used to draw and paint imagery on the sanded plywood matrix and which is then processed. Mokulito has the benefit that additional reductive marks can be cut into the surface as with relief printing, so that when printed the drawn and cut marks sit together with the ghostly impressions of the wood grain to create a beautiful, contrasted image. This course is suitable for beginners as well as experienced practitioners. Susannah Emily Susannah graduated with a MFA (Illustration) from Edinburgh College of Art. Prior to her Masters she studied Pharmacology. This unique combination of art and science led to a keen interest in printmaking, where the alchemy of the process is a fundamental part of the final composigion. Printmaking is now an integral part of her practice, with a particular focus on Mokulito, lithography, and monotype. She particularly enjoys Mokulito as because of the grain of the wood becomes a tangible component of the final prints, and is a unique way of combining woodgrain, drawn and painted marks, and reductive marks all in one image. Now based a little north of Dundee, she is a member at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Susannah is a freelance tutor, teaching in Dundee, Edinburgh, and up in the Highlands. Booking over a month in advance? Use our Early Bird discount for 15% off! 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.
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Join us on Saturday 13 September for this taster class exploring stone lithography. Drawing directly onto a prepared limestone surface allows a spontaneous approach to mark-making. Find out how artists with wide-ranging styles, such as MC Escher, Jasper Johns, Pablo Picasso, and Kathe Kolwitz, have delighted in the subtleties of the stone. This 1-day taster class will give you the opportunity to make a print, find out what stone is about before you might consider one of our Expanded Practice (3-days) or Evening Courses (6 evenings) in Stone Lithography. Alternatively, Introduction to Lithography gives a 2 day opportunity to explore both Plate and Stone Lithography. Taster classes are not access classes, so you will not be able to use the studio once the course is completed. If you wish to do so, please book onto one of our longer courses. 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.
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On 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-off 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
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From 20-21 September 2025 In this 2-day course, join printmaker and artist Rosalind Lawless for an in-depth exploration of colour and colour theory through the process of screenprinting. Following this weekend class you will become more confident in using colour and understanding its variables. Screenprinting is a fantastic process for achieving variety of hues and colours through the process of ratio to ink/medium and overlaying, which will be introduced and developed upon during this class. In this hands-on weekend course, Ros will provide tuition and support in relation to colour mixing, utilising transparency, layering, and colour theory while printing one of your own projects. Experience with screenprinting is preferable. Rosalind Lawless is a printmaker, artist and educator based in Glasgow. She has been the recipient of the R.S.A William Littlejohn Award and the R.S.A Residencies for Scotland Award, Peacock and the Worm. In 2019 she was awarded a scholarship at the International Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, she was shortlisted for the AnnaLober/Dusseldorf Exchange and was awarded the Bet Low Trust Award. Her work has recently been acquired by the National Galleries of Modern Art, Edinburgh and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership, which allows you to use the studio and consolidate your skills after the course. 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.
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On Sat 4 October and Sat 11 October, running on two consecutive Saturdays, this course introduces the two main lithography processes used in the studio. The first day focuses on plate lithography, and the second on stone lithography. Each process is explored through hands-on practice where participants learn the practical skills involved in making lithographs. Find out what unique qualities each process has to offer, gain an understanding of how to approach working with each material, and how you can combine the two processes. Paper size (& maximum image size) on the course is approximately 26 x 36.5cm 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 exhibitioned 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. Booking over a month in advance? Use our Early Bird tickets for 15% off! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use in the studio and consolidate your skills. Depending on your previous experience, some further learning may be required before you are fully confident in either of these processes to use the studio independantly. Find out more about stone lithography on our YouTube channel here.
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Taking place on 12-13 April or 4-5 October, this course is ideal for individuals who have previously participated in our relief weekend or evening courses, or those with some background in relief printing seeking to enhance their skills with established artist and printmaker Anupa Gardner. On Saturday, participants will explore different 'resists' and build up layers of etch on their lino blocks using caustic soda paste while also using traditional cutting methods. There will be the opportunity to create a collagraph block and proof the blocks. Later in the day participants will be introduced to colour, multi-plate printing, and registration. On Sunday, participants will continue working on their blocks for a short time. The remainder of the day will be dedicated to exploring various printmaking techniques, such as Chine Colle, paper stencilling, and combining collagraph with relief printing. Anupa Gardner is an Indian-born artist based in Scotland, working mainly in printmaking. She graduated from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, India, where she studied graphic design. Thereafter, she moved to Scotland, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art with an MA in 2008. Anupa has taken on various roles in her career as designer, illustrator, educator, technician, and editioner. She now concentrates on her own practice and continues to teach at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Printmakers. She also delivers a variety of workshops across Scotland. 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: Anupa Gardner
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From Wednesday 8 October, join us for our 6-week course of Photoshop classes. This series will give participants time to learn the techniques to create intricate and dynamic multi-layered digital images with Photoshop. The process is explored through hands-on practice where participants will learn the practical skills involved in making an artwork from a number of source image files, using Photoshop as a dynamic collage making tool. The course will cover the principles of image resolution and the opportunity to scan drawings, photographs and magazines images to manipulate the scale and incorporate it into a composite image. The course will include how to use masking techniques and layer blending modes as well as adjustment layers, filter effects, etc. There will be demonstations and practical excercises to observe and complete. This evening course will give participants the opportunity to develop, re-think and re-create the artwork between each class on the journey and apply their new knowledge to assist in the completion of the final piece. Video tutotials of the demonstrations will be made available to participants to assist with the learning process. Previous experience of Photoshop or a similiar software is advisable to make the most of the course. Edinburgh Printmakers has a number of devices with photoshop you can use, but a reduced 'bring your own devide' ticket is available for participants who can bring their own devide with Photoshop CS5 or later installed. PLEASE READ: You will see two 18:00 ticket options below. The option on the left is the 'Bring your own device' reduced ticket price, the option on the right is for participants who wish to use a device in the studio. The final outcome of the course will be to generate photo-quality print size of 42x28cm (or similiar) on fine art paper. This course is particularly suitable for photographers and artists who want to use Photoshop as collage tool for their practice. Lawrence Nowasad Born in Edinburgh and a member of the Edinburgh Printmakers since 2011, Lawrence Nowosad has been interested in a mixed media working process for a number of years, initially combining photography and video in his first course of study at Napier University. Augmenting these skills with animation, illustration and graphic design led to achieving a Masters in multi media. He has contributed work to a number of shows in Edinburgh Printmakers group shows including the Actinic show in 2015. He has had solo exhibitions in Edinburgh and Amsterdam. He has worked as an Art & Design lecturer in a number of college in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
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From Thursday 9 October, taking place over a series of six weeks, explore the original type of lithography 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. Taking place over six evenings, this 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. Focusing on learning the process and working mainly in monochrome, we will explore traditional approaches to mark-making as well as alternative drawing methods. Learn all about processing images on stone and how to stabilise the image for printing before taking several prints to show the development of your drawing at different stages. During the course we will work to approximately A3 size: 26 x 36.5cm 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. Find out more about stone lithography on our YouTube channel here. 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.
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On 11-12 October, join us to develop beautiful contemporary prints using the Japanese traditional process of Mokuhanga. What is Mokuhanga, and what are Ukiyo-e prints? Both terms refer to Japanese woodblock prints: those images one associates with such a Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Utamaro and Hokusai, who produced beautiful prints of luminous colour around 150-200 years ago during the Japanese Edo (present-day Tokyo) period. This form of printmaking was know as 'Ukiyo-e', or 'prints from the floating world'. Birds and flowers were extremely populaar themes at that time, as were landscapes, women, actors and historical figures. The class will cover the use and maintenance of Japanese tools for carving, the kento registration system, asian papers, printing with a baren and the use of waterbased pigments. Unlike the original way of carving (whereby a hard end-grain wood, usually cherry or similiar fruit wood would be used to achieve the finest detail using tools which resemble wood engraving tools), we will be cutting sheets of plywood faced with bass wood using basic cutting tools. The basswood cuts very easily and is a good 'starter' for for learning the process. What makes this process so attractive and accessible? As well the beautiful stylistic features of Mokuhanga ( the diffused, watercolour effect) the materials required are not expensive and are readily available. Water based paint or inks are used to print the blocks, rendering the technique both safe and clean, and blocks are printed easily by hand means that the process can be done easily at home or in a classroom. Contemporary Japanese printmakers often produce prints of an impressive scale at home using this technique. Elspeth Lamb is a professional artist who has undertaken several residencies in Japan since 2000 to study Mokuhanga and oriental papermaking. She is a member and regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy.
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From Tuesday 14 October, join us for our 6-week series of screenprinting classes. This class will give participants time to learn the dynamic and colourful process of screenprinting. During this evening course, each participant will develop their screenprint practice by creating multi-layered prints using an array of techniques, from painterly washes, textures, linear drawings, and photographic bitmaps to clean flat areas, colour blends, and typography. This evening course will give participants the time to think, re-think, create and re-create artwork between each class, helping them delve into various aspects of their print practice. To print, the screen is attached to a printing press and acrylic based ink is pushed through the screen mesh onto paper using a squeegee blade. Each layer of colour is printed individually, taking care to register each new ink layer on top of the previous. The process is explored through hands-on practice where participants learn practical skills involved in making a screenprint. Maximum image size on the course is approximately 21 x 30cm. This course uses water-based inks on paper which are not suitable for printing on textiles. James Harrison Over the past 10 years, James has been honing his screenprint craft by working on both personal and commercial print project on a variety of mediums, but his specialty lies in creating high-end screenprints on paper. With over 6 years of teaching experience, James' enthusiasm for teaching the art of screenprinting provides him with a constant source of motivation and inspiration for his practice. In early 2015, James started a self-initiated project with his brother called Under the Skin with the mission to engage people of all ages through innovative design and interactive screenprints. In 2018 James was awarded a QEST scholarship where he trained under expert printmaker Scott Campbell to produce screenprint editions for world-renowned artists such as Alasdair Gray. In 2022 James joined the Edinburgh Printmakers team as a Screenprint Technician, where he runs the screenprint department, produces screenprint editions, and teaches a wide variety of screenprint workshops. Booking over a month in advance? Use our Early Bird tickets for 15% off! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.
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During this Laser Cutting Weekend Course on 18-19 October, you will be introduced to the use of a laser cutter and how to prepare vector files from your drawing or photograph. You'll 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. This course is suitable for anyone interested in the use of a laser-cutter, as well as experienced printmakers interested in combining laser-cutting with traditional printmaking methods. The course is suitable for those who have no experience of laser cutting, though experience with digital imaging is highly recommended. Image: Sonia Mehra Chawla
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On 1 November 2025, join us for a fun, hands-on three-hour to learn how to create your own Japanese signature stamp! Artist and printmaker Kanae Park will guide you step by step. First, you'll learn how to use traditional Japanese calligraphy brushes to write your name in Japanese. Then, convert your name into a lino print Hanko (a carved stamp commonly used in Japan as a signature). This course is open to all. Children are welcome when accompanied by an adult.
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Taking place over a series of six weeks from either Tues 29 April or Tues 4 November, explore ways of creating striking images with this simple yet powerful print process. Cutting images into wood or linoleum and inking up with colour can produce bold and dramatic effects. This course will explore the diverse ways artists use this direct process, looking at the practicalities of reduction printing. This course is very hands-on, practical, and fun. You will be trying out lino & Japanese ply to cut from and explore the benefits of using different types of paper for printing. Please bring a sketch or a simple digital printout to work with. The image size will be up to a maximum of A4. Anupa Gardner is an Indian born artist based in Scotland working mainly in the field of printmaking. She graduated from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, India, where she studied graphic design. Thereafter she moved to Scotland, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art with an MA in 2008. Anupa has taken on various roles in her career as designer, illustrator, educator, technician and editioner. She now concentrates on her own practice and continues to teach in Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Printmakers. She also delivers a variety of workshops across Scotland. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! You can find out more about relief printing on our YouTube channel, here. This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Image: Alastair Kinroy
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Taking place on 26-27 April or 8-9 November, this weekend course covers the use of Photec as an acid resist. Photec is a photopolymer film that can be adhered to a metal plate, exposed to a positive artwork on acetate, and developed in such a way that it can produce accurate photographic acid resist. This then allows a photographic image to be etched into a copper plate. The real advantage of this is that the photographic image, once bitten into the surface of the plate can be further worked into using other etching techniques. For this reason, previous etching experience is advised. During the course, participants will prepare their artwork digitally to be printed onto acetate and produce and print one photo etching plate on copper, they will also learn how to apply aquatint which can help to strengthen photo etching images. The size of the plates will be 152 x 203mm (6 X 8 inches). 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.
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On 12-13 April or 22-23 November, accomplished artist and printmaker Gillian Murray will be focusing on the hand-drawn and painterly use of screenprinting during this weekend course. Create screenprint layers without computers, using brushes and paint, drawing materials, and with the aid of photo emulsion. Explore colour mixing, layering, and mark-making. This course is particularly suitable for those interested in approaching printmaking with an emphasis on drawing and painting, taking inspiration from Gillian through a hands-on approach to screenprinting. Gillian Murray Gillian was born in Perth, Scotland and studied Fine Art (Printmaking) at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, graduating in 1993. After a move to Edinburgh, she was employed at Edinburgh Printmakers from 1996 until 2017 running the screenprinting department. This involved working on print projects with a host of local, national, and international artists as well as teaching courses in screenprinting and collagraph. She now dedicates more time to creating her own artwork as well as freeland teaching and editioning. In her own work she is fascinated by the landscape from the textures and colours to its form and composition. She is a professional member of the SSA and has exhibited widely in the UK and beyond. 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.
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If you are a printmaker or artist interested in becoming a member of our world class print studio, join us for an informal open evening. There will be a 15-minute tour of our facilities, and then you'll have the chance to speak to our studio staff and current members to get a feel for what it's like working in the studio. Visitors will also be able to join our exclusive members' event Print and Tell, which offers current members the opportunity to share some of their work and stories relating to printmaking. This event is free but booking is essential. We look forward to welcoming you to the studio!
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If you've recently done a class but haven't returned to the studio to do an induction within a month then your next step is to attend a refresher class. The refresher course is 5.5 hours of teaching time and is hands on. During this time we will run through the process in brief covering each step: plate making, registration, setting up to print, ink mix, setting up the press and printing. This is a hands on course so bring an image with you so you have something to work with on the day. Being a short class, we won’t spend much time with image development so it helps if you have something simple with you to work from. Time spent in Refresher Class gives you experience and counts towards your workshop induction so you become familiar with using the studio. Once you have attended a refresher course you will be eligible to take out a membership with all of the associated benefits. Who are refresher sessions for? - For lapsed members of EP - Printmakers with good experience in that process but new to EP - People who have completed a weekend course but are looking for some more support/assistance to build up confidence/experience before working in the studio Please Note: This course is NOT suitable for people with NO experience in Photo Plate Lithography - (our weekend access courses are intended for those new to a process) If you are unsure if you are suitably experienced to attend, we ask that you email us in advance of booking at alastair.clark@edinburghprintmakers.co.uk with the following information: - When was the last time you did litho? - What courses have you attended and where? - Do you have examples of prints you have printed yourself using this process? Please provide images if you can. - What other print studios have you worked in? Some people will be required to attend more than one refresher session before gaining access to membership and working unassisted in the print studio. This will be dependant on each individual's previous experience and the complexity of the particular print process.
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On Fridays twice a month, have a drink and get creative with printmaking. Soft drinks will be provided. You can bring a small amount of your own alcohol. This event is a great opportunity to visit EP, socialise and get inspired! It's a surprise, so on the day you could be doing one of any of the following techniques: Kitchen sink lithography - using some surprising materials found in the kitchen, and a little bit of science magic, you’ll create your own individual series of prints. Drypoint etching from the recycling bin - We’ve done the hard work for you and raided the recycling bin so that you can try out this rewarding technique using drinks cans/tetrapac/or plastic milk cartons to create a dry point etched plate to ink up and print. Instant Collagraph - create a multi-coloured print using this jigsaw-style approach to printmaking , using textured wallpaper and other materials. Word Up! - Using our extensive collection of wooden letterpress, you will have the opportunity to play with words using colour, layout, and pattern. Mono Screenprint - This free-form approach to screenprinting allows you to explore mark-making and colour spontaneously, using ink, graphite, and charcoal. Potato & Vegetable Relief Printing - carve and shape various vegetables to make relief prints.
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As part of the world-wide celebrations of Print Day in May, join us on Saturday 3rd of May at 12pm in the EP Gallery 1 for a talk and etching demonstration. Hear from one of our longest-standing Studio Members, artist Cat Outram, about her print Fragile Beauty. The print is currently on display in our exhibition Story and produced for the From Paper to Gold Folio celebrating EP's 50th Anniversary in 2017. Cat will walk us through the inspiration behind the print and how the prospect of the new studio in Castle Mills, Fountainbridge connected her to the urban landscape. After a short talk in the Gallery space, we will move up to the Studio for an etching demonstration, a great opportunity to learn more and explore this fascinating and historical medium. Learn more about other activities happening as part of Print Day in May and how to take part and have a chance to win one of the many prizes from the event's sponsors! EP partners with the WelcoMe App by Neatebox, supporting visitors in indicating areas of or specific assistance they might require. More information can be found on our website accessibility page. This event is part of our heritage projectCastle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
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As part of the world-wide celebrations of Print Day in May, join us on Saturday 3rd of May at 2-4pm for a Posters making workshop! Follow in centuries of paper-based comunication tradition and join us to produce your own personal poster, using letterpress and relief printing. Participants will be able to print several copies of their own posters to take home and share with family and friends (or even strangers!). We will also use one copy to stitch all our posters together and produce one large collaborative poster which we will print together in the main studio using our Mega Press, and display in our courtyard for the duration of the month of May. Learn more about other activities happening as part of Print Day in May and how to take part and have a chance to win one of the many prizes from the event's sponsors! Tickets: £5 will help us cover our materials costs. £10 will help us fully cover all workshop costs. £15 is much appreciated if you are able, as it will help us to continue our engagement work This event is open to all, children under 16 should be accompanied by an adult. EP partners with the WelcoMe App by Neatebox, supporting visitors in indicating areas of or specific assistance they might require. More information can be found on our website accessibility page. This event is part of our heritage projectCastle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
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On Sun 4 May, Sun 1 June, or Sun 8 June, Learn about Cyanotype or ‘blue print’ - one of photography’s oldest printing methods. Reminiscent of the alchemists of yesteryear, you can use a negative image on acetate, a drawing on tracing paper, or even real objects to create a stunning image without a camera. Leena Nammari is a Palestinian artist printmaker based in Scotland. She has exhibited within Scotland, 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, though 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 completed her MFA in Arts & Humanities. ABOUT TASTER WORKSHOPS Please note that short Taster workshops are not intended as stand-alone access courses. Due to the short nature of this workshop, we do a lot of the preparation for you and streamline the process so you get a finished print at the end of the day. This does mean that you will need more training before you are self-sufficient in this process and can work in the studio without assistance. To use Edinburgh Printmakers' open-access studio facilities, you will need to attend a weekend/evening course or refresher/induction class before becoming a member. How much further training is required is based on each individual’s previous printmaking experience. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets!
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On 10-11 May or 11-12 October, Draw on Gillian Murray's vast experience of working in collagraph during our weekend course, which takes place on a Saturday and Sunday. A collagraph is a print taken from a collaged plate. This weekend course allows ample time and opportunity to explore this deceptively simple and versatile technique. The course will explore making plates using different types of materials such as wallpaper, feathers, leaves, and string, sticking them down onto a piece of card which is then varnished. When ready, the ‘plate’ is then inked up and printed onto paper, creating rich textures and an embossed Gillian Murray Gillian was born in Perth, Scotland and studied Fine Art (Printmaking) at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, graduating in 1993. After a move to Edinburgh, she was employed at Edinburgh Printmakers from 1996 until 2017 running the screenprinting department. 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 fascinated by the landscape from the textures and colours to its form and composition. She is a professional member of the SSA and has exhibited widely in the UK and beyond. 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: Gillian Murray
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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.
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On Saturday 17 May, join artist Kelly Stewart for a day of drawing inspired by samples of Australian Flora brought from her native country. Interested in learning more about printing and bookbinding your drawings? Join us for Kelly's full 3-day course to learn about mark making, exposing onto screens for printing and how to hand-stitch and bind your prints into a hardcover artist book. Find out more on the event page here. Kelly Stewart Kelly Stewart studied Design (Visual Communication) in Sydney, Australia before moving to Scotland and joining Edinburgh Printmakers in 2001. Since then, she has worked predominantly in the medium of screenprinting as she finds it combines drawings, textures, and handwritten text unlike any other medium. Kelly has tried many other print techniques, but has a passion for screenprinting which she brings into her classes and workshops. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets!
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On Sat 17 - Mon 19 May 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 taught 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. Kelly Stewart Kelly Stewart studied Design (Visual Communication) in Sydney, Australia before moving to Scotland and joining Edinburgh Printmakers in 2001. Since then, she has worked predominanly in the medium of screenprinting as she finds it combines drawings, textures, and handwritten text unlike any other medium. Kely has tried many other print techniques, but has a passion for screenprinting which she brings into her classes and workshops. 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.
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Full Price tickets = 1 Adult + 1 Child Family Print Club – These Sunday Funday sessions are designed for different generations to share an experience, explore some printmaking techniques, and have some fun! This course runs on Sundays, twice a month. January 19th & 26th Printmaking with Lego - create images and letters using Lego building blocks. February 16th & 23rd Collage Relief Printmaking - celebrate Spring and make imaginative images using textured paper and materials. March 23rd & 30th Drypoint Etching - explore line and tone drawing using etching needles and sheets of acrylic to create your very own printed paper bank note. April 20th Try your hand at the colourful technique of screen printing with paper stencils. Fun, direct and colourful! April 27th Kitchen Sink Lithography - alchemy from the kitchen is put to good use to create litho prints with a touch of magic. May 18th & 25th Blind Embossing - create an embossed image with cut card and other materials, this is a process without ink! June 22nd & 29th Monoprinting Techniques - build up an image using a range of painterly printmaking techniques. September 21st & 28th Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - create some quirky selfie prints with a mirror and a felt tip. October 19th & 26th Prints from the Recycling Bin - try intaglio printmaking with some cardboard juice cartons and plastic milk bottles. Price shown per session. Book one session or more as required. Full Price: 1 adult + 1 child Early bird price: 1 adult + 1 child Less than 1 week in advance: £35 for 1 adult + 1 child. Additional adult £20 Additional child £8
Learning Studio
Join us on Thursday 22nd May from 6-7:30pm in our Gallery for a panel conversation on collecting practices. As part of our current exhibition, Story: Selected Works from Edinburgh Printmakers' Collection, we will be joined in conversation by three collection managers, Anna Hawkins, Andrew James and Kelly McMeekin, to reflect on how they use storytelling to bolster the objects in their collections. We'll discuss how oral histories, letters, archival documents, lore and curatorial research create context and a clearer picture of their artefacts. We’ll also find out about rare gems and surprises within each collection and consider the challenges in collecting and caring for Intangible Heritage. This panel conversation is a hybrid event for people to attend in person or online. The talk will start at 6pm in the Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery. There will be time at the end of the talk for Q&A from the audience. The zoom link will be shared with attendees who select the online ticket via email the day before the talk. Moderators: Meg Dolan and Kristina Royer, EP Collection Development Managers Panelists: Anna Hawkins, Museum Collections Manager, University of Edinburgh Andrew James, Learning Manager, SCRAN Collection, Historic Environment Scotland Kelly McMeekin, Manager of Museum & Heritage, Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage Learn more about Edinburgh Printmakers' public programme connected to the Story: Selected Works from Edinburgh Printmakers' Collection and Impressions: Selected Works From Jerwood Collection on our events page. EP partners with the WelcoMe App by Neatebox, supporting visitors in indicating areas of or specific assistance they might require. More information can be found on our website accessibility page. This event is part of our heritage project Castle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
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As part of our current exhibitions (Story: Selected Works from Edinburgh Printmakers Collection and Impressions: Selected Works from Jerwood Collection), we invite you to join the first instalment of our reading group ‘From Plate to Page’ to reflect on some of the many histories within the medium of print. Join us on Thursday 29th May from 6-7pm for a relaxed, non-academic conversation engaging with texts that look at printmaking’s role within social justice, emancipation, identity and self-expression. All readings will be shared with attendees when purchasing a free ticket. Reading material: Baines, Jess. ‘A Darn Good Idea: Feminist Printers and the Women Liberation Movement in Britain’, in Natural Enemies of Books: A Messy History of Women in Printing and Typography. Edited by Maryam Fanni, Matilda Flodmark , Sara Kaaman. Published by Occasional Papers, 2020. Bockis, Asnate, Karin de Jong, Ash Kilmartin and Abhaya Mistry, Paper, zine published by PrintRoom in 2020 www.printroom.org Harding, Richard. ‘Print as Other: the future is queer’ in Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking. Edited by Rith Pelzer-Montada. Published by Manchester University Press, 2018. Extra reading: Herman, Daniel F. 'Edinburgh Printmakers and the notion of the workshop', in Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking. Edited by Rith Pelzer-Montada. Published by Manchester University Press, 2018. While some of the readings might be of an academic nature, this reading group is open to all and we will support each other, exploring the material together in an informal conversation. This event is free for all to attend, if you'd like and are able to support us with a donation ticket it is much appreciated as it will help us to continue our engagement work. This event is part of our heritage project Castle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
Learning Studio
On the last weekend of the month, learn all about the dynamic and colorful process of screenprinting. This type of stencil can produce detailed marks such as painterly washes, linear drawings, photocopied images, and text. Participants will learn how to print their image in several coloured layers onto paper. To print, the screen is attached to a printing press, and acrylic based ink is pushed through the screen mesh onto paper using a squeegee blade. Each layer of colour is printed individually, taking care to register each new layer of ink on top of previously printed colours. During the course, each participant will work on their own print, creating 3-4 layers of colour onto paper. The process is explored through hands-on practice where participants learn the practical skills involved in making a screenprint. Paper size (& maximum image size) on the course is approximately 28 x 38cm. This course uses water-based inks on paper which are not suitable for printing on textiles. James Harrison Over the past 10 years, James has been honing his screenprint craft by working on both personal and commercial print project on a variety of mediums, but his specialty lies in creating high-end screenprints on paper. With over 6 years of teaching experience, James' enthusiasm for teaching the art of screenprinting provides him with a constant source of motivation and inspiration for his practice. In early 2015, James started a self-initiated project with his brother called Under the Skin with the mission to engage people of all ages through innovative design and interactive screenprints. In 2018 James was awarded a QEST scholarship where he trained under expert printmaker Scott Campbell to produce screenprint editions for world-renowned artists such as Alasdair Gray. In 2022 James joined the Edinburgh Printmakers team as a Screenprint Technician, where he runs the screenprint department, produces screenprint editions, and teaches a wide variety of screenprint workshops. Booking over a month in advance? Use our Early Bird tickets for 15% off! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use in the studio and consolidate your skills. Learn more about screen printing on our YouTube channel here.
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Etching Weekend Courses provide the perfect introduction to etching, introducing innovative techniques that encourage spontaneous and diverse methods of mark-making. They take place Saturday-Sunday on the following dates: 15&16 March 2025 14&15 June 2025 27&28 September 2025 22&23 November 2025 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. During the course participants will work on two etching plates, one copper and one zinc, introducing them to both of the metals and the mordants most commonly used at Edinburgh Printmakers. Participants will produce two images over the course (one on each metal) making use of a combination of techniques in each plate. The size of the plates will be 152 x 203mm (6 X 8 inches) A 15% Early Bird discount is available for bookings made 1 month prior to the start date! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Find out more about etching on our YouTube channel here.
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Join us on Sunday 15th June at 2pm-4pm in the Edinburgh Printmakers Learning Studio and try your hand at creating a unique paper puzzle, hidden message zine or sculptural print. This workshop, led by artist printmaker Scott Baxter, will incorporate a variety of communication histories to create narrative paper sculptures. Participants will create works that incorporate sculptural forms, images, text, and narrative. The first part of the workshop will explore the making of several forms of folded small paper sculptures.While the second part will focus on participants adding imagery and text to the sculptures, considering how these are applied as a cohesive part of the work. At the end of the workshop participants will be able to take home their own sculptures and will be provided with worksheets to make more in their own time. All materials will be supplied; however, participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchbooks/notebooks with ideas to incorporate into the works.Found images, materials, favourite art methods, magazines and other supplies can also be useful to bring, but not essential. We will offer plenty of materials to be inspired by, and to learn more about the histories of self-publishing. Tickets: £5 will help us cover our materials costs. £10 will help us fully cover all workshop costs. £15 is much appreciated if you are able, as it will help us to continue our engagement work This event is part of our heritage projectCastle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
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Explore ways of creating striking images with this simple yet powerful print medium process. Relief Printing Weekends happen on a Saturday and a Sunday on the following dates: 19 & 20 April 2025 21 & 22 June 2025 13 & 14 September 2025 18 & 19 October 2025 6 & 7 December 2025 Cutting images into wood or linoleum and inking up with colour can produce bold dramatic effects. This course will explore the diverse range of ways which artists use this direct process, looking at the practicalities of reduction printing (printing multiple layers from the same block, revealing colours through carving). Please note - from 27 July 2025, this course will slightly change to have an emphasis on working with wood. It will be titled Wood Cut Printing Weekend, and will cover the same techniques but will give you more insight into working with the subtlety of wood, its grain, and how to print multiple colours with it. The skills learned will also be applicable to lino printing. This course is very hands-on, practical, and fun. You will be trying out lino and/or Japanese ply to cut from and explore the benefits of using different types so paper for printing. Bring a sketch or a simple digital file we can print out. The image size will be up to a maximum of A4. Tools will be provided but if you have your own tools please feel free to bring them with you! You can find out more about relief printing on our YouTube channel, here. 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: Anupa Gardner
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From Sat 21-Sun 22 June, students will explore a combination of mark-making, drawing, and found imagery to layer up in the screenprint process over a 2 day workshop by artist and printmaker Kelly Stewart. Benefit from Kelly's unique and wonderful style of creating by working closely with her to learn about screenprinting from a loose and painterly perspective. Bring along drawings, ideas, and source material to be developed into a print. Individual layers will be exposed onto screens and printed by hand, creating imagery with a view to exploration and experimentation. Participants will receive guidance and support to produce unique multi-layered prints while having a great time in the process. Booking over a month in advance? Use our Early Bird tickets for 15% off! This course also entitles you to 3-months FREE Associate Membership in our studio to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Kelly Stewart Kelly Stewart studied Design (Visual Communication) in Sydney, Australia before moving to Scotland and joining Edinburgh Printmakers in 2001. Since then, she has worked predominantly in the medium of screenprinting as she finds it combines drawings, textures, and handwritten text unlike any other medium. Kelly has tried many other print techniques, but has a passion for screenprinting which she brings into her classes and workshops. Image: Kelly Stewart
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On either 28-29 Jun or 25-26 November, work with acclaimed printmaker and artist Angie Lewin to create your own beautiful and delicate wood engravings. Wood engraving is a relief printmaking process which, in contrast to woodcut, is generally smaller scale and involves engraving into the end-grain of a prepared woodblock. This method can reproduce fine detail and create a lively graphic image. During this course, you will produce a black and white print having learnt all stages of the process: transferring your initial drawing onto your woodblock, learning how to use the different engraving tools to create texture and line, and finally making prints from your woodblock. Wood engraving is a slow but satisfying process. Ideally you may have some drawing skills to benefit from this workshop, but this is not essential, and this course will suit all artists. 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.
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On 5-7 July, combine plate lithography and monoprinting techniques in this exploratory 3-day workshop led by Edinburgh Printmakers' Head of Editions, 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 you will 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. 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 explores climate change. 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 12-14 July join us for Drawn & Painterly 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. Working directly onto metal plates, you will develop 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 both copper and zinc plates to explore 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.
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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 and develop your work. 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 Gillian was born in Perth, Scotland and studied Fine Art (Printmaking) at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, graduating in 1993. After a mvoe to Edinburgh, she was employed at Edinburgh Printmakers from 1996 until 2017 running the screenprinting department. 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 fascinated by the landscape from the tectures and colours to its form and composition. She is a professional member of the SSA and has exhibited widely in the UK and beyond. 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
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Taking place from 26-29 July, this 4-day expanded practice summer course will give you the opportunity to develop your prints over 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 4 days, you will be comfortable and very familiar with the screenprinting process, and will 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.. 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. This course uses water-based prints on paper which are not suitable for printing on textiles. James Harrison Over the past 10 years, James has been honing his screenprint craft by working on both personal and commercial print project on a variety of mediums, but his specialty lies in creating high-end screenprints on paper. With over 6 years of teaching experience, James' enthusiasm for teaching the art of screenprinting provides him with a constant source of motivation and inspiration for his practice. In early 2015, James started a self-initiated project with his brother called Under the Skin with the mission to engage people of all ages through innovative design and interactive screenprints. In 2018 James was awarded a QEST scholarship where he trained under expert printmaker Scott Campbell to produce screenprint editions for world-renowned artists such as Alasdair Gray. In 2022 James joined the Edinburgh Printmakers team as a Screenprint Technician, where he runs the screenprint department, produces screenprint editions, and teaches a wide variety of screenprint workshops. 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, which allows you to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Image: Adam Wilson
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From Saturday 9 - Tuesday 12 August, explore ways of creating striking images with this simple yet powerful print medium process. Cutting images into wood or linoleum and inking up with colour can produce bold and dramatic effects. During this course participants will explore the practicalities of reduction printing using both Japanese ply and multi block printing using etched lino to explore the benefits of using different types of paper for printing. You will be shown various methods of registration, and print a small edition. This 4-day course is very hands-on, practical and fun. Bring a sketch or a simple digital printout. The image size will be up to a maximum of A4. 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. Anupa Gardner is an Indian born artist based in Scotland working mainly in the field of printmaking. She graduated from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, India, where she studied graphic design. Thereafter she moved to Scotland, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art with an MA in 2008. Anupa has taken on various roles in her career as designer, illustrator, educator, technician and editioner. She now concentrates on her own practice and continues to teach in Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Printmakers. She also delivers a variety of workshops across Scotland. Image: Anupa Gardner
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From Wed 16 April or Wed 3 September, taking place over a series of 6 consecutive Wednesday evenings, this course provides the perfect introduction to etching, exploring innovative techniques that encourage spontaneous and diverse methods of mark-making. The first class of each course will take place on the following dates: 16 April 2025 3 September 2025 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. Find out more about etching on our YouTube channel here. 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.
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Join us on 6-7 September and learn all about Toyobo (or photopolymer gravure) with Leena Nammari RSA. 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. 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 in the studio. Leena Nammari is a Palestinian artist printmaker based in Scotland. She has exhibited within Scotland, Europe, Palestine, and Australia as part of group exhibitions and has had several solo exhibitions. She is an expert printmaker in all aspects of printmaking, though 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 also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.
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On 5-6 April or 13-14 September, learn how to print using the mokulito technique, also know as wood lithography - a unique form of printmaking. Developed in Japan in the 1970s, the process uses plywood as the printing surface and draws on the principles of lithography, specifically the antipathy between grease and water. Greasy materials, such as tusche, crayons, and autographic inks, are used to draw and paint imagery on the sanded plywood matrix and which is then processed. Mokulito has the benefit that additional reductive marks can be cut into the surface as with relief printing, so that when printed the drawn and cut marks sit together with the ghostly impressions of the wood grain to create a beautiful, contrasted image. This course is suitable for beginners as well as experienced practitioners. Susannah Emily Susannah graduated with a MFA (Illustration) from Edinburgh College of Art. Prior to her Masters she studied Pharmacology. This unique combination of art and science led to a keen interest in printmaking, where the alchemy of the process is a fundamental part of the final composigion. Printmaking is now an integral part of her practice, with a particular focus on Mokulito, lithography, and monotype. She particularly enjoys Mokulito as because of the grain of the wood becomes a tangible component of the final prints, and is a unique way of combining woodgrain, drawn and painted marks, and reductive marks all in one image. Now based a little north of Dundee, she is a member at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Susannah is a freelance tutor, teaching in Dundee, Edinburgh, and up in the Highlands. Booking over a month in advance? Use our Early Bird discount for 15% off! 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.
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Join us on Saturday 13 September for this taster class exploring stone lithography. Drawing directly onto a prepared limestone surface allows a spontaneous approach to mark-making. Find out how artists with wide-ranging styles, such as MC Escher, Jasper Johns, Pablo Picasso, and Kathe Kolwitz, have delighted in the subtleties of the stone. This 1-day taster class will give you the opportunity to make a print, find out what stone is about before you might consider one of our Expanded Practice (3-days) or Evening Courses (6 evenings) in Stone Lithography. Alternatively, Introduction to Lithography gives a 2 day opportunity to explore both Plate and Stone Lithography. Taster classes are not access classes, so you will not be able to use the studio once the course is completed. If you wish to do so, please book onto one of our longer courses. 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.
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On 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-off 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
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From 20-21 September 2025 In this 2-day course, join printmaker and artist Rosalind Lawless for an in-depth exploration of colour and colour theory through the process of screenprinting. Following this weekend class you will become more confident in using colour and understanding its variables. Screenprinting is a fantastic process for achieving variety of hues and colours through the process of ratio to ink/medium and overlaying, which will be introduced and developed upon during this class. In this hands-on weekend course, Ros will provide tuition and support in relation to colour mixing, utilising transparency, layering, and colour theory while printing one of your own projects. Experience with screenprinting is preferable. Rosalind Lawless is a printmaker, artist and educator based in Glasgow. She has been the recipient of the R.S.A William Littlejohn Award and the R.S.A Residencies for Scotland Award, Peacock and the Worm. In 2019 she was awarded a scholarship at the International Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, she was shortlisted for the AnnaLober/Dusseldorf Exchange and was awarded the Bet Low Trust Award. Her work has recently been acquired by the National Galleries of Modern Art, Edinburgh and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership, which allows you to use the studio and consolidate your skills after the course. 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.
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On Sat 4 October and Sat 11 October, running on two consecutive Saturdays, this course introduces the two main lithography processes used in the studio. The first day focuses on plate lithography, and the second on stone lithography. Each process is explored through hands-on practice where participants learn the practical skills involved in making lithographs. Find out what unique qualities each process has to offer, gain an understanding of how to approach working with each material, and how you can combine the two processes. Paper size (& maximum image size) on the course is approximately 26 x 36.5cm 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 exhibitioned 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. Booking over a month in advance? Use our Early Bird tickets for 15% off! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use in the studio and consolidate your skills. Depending on your previous experience, some further learning may be required before you are fully confident in either of these processes to use the studio independantly. Find out more about stone lithography on our YouTube channel here.
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Taking place on 12-13 April or 4-5 October, this course is ideal for individuals who have previously participated in our relief weekend or evening courses, or those with some background in relief printing seeking to enhance their skills with established artist and printmaker Anupa Gardner. On Saturday, participants will explore different 'resists' and build up layers of etch on their lino blocks using caustic soda paste while also using traditional cutting methods. There will be the opportunity to create a collagraph block and proof the blocks. Later in the day participants will be introduced to colour, multi-plate printing, and registration. On Sunday, participants will continue working on their blocks for a short time. The remainder of the day will be dedicated to exploring various printmaking techniques, such as Chine Colle, paper stencilling, and combining collagraph with relief printing. Anupa Gardner is an Indian-born artist based in Scotland, working mainly in printmaking. She graduated from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, India, where she studied graphic design. Thereafter, she moved to Scotland, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art with an MA in 2008. Anupa has taken on various roles in her career as designer, illustrator, educator, technician, and editioner. She now concentrates on her own practice and continues to teach at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Printmakers. She also delivers a variety of workshops across Scotland. 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: Anupa Gardner
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From Wednesday 8 October, join us for our 6-week course of Photoshop classes. This series will give participants time to learn the techniques to create intricate and dynamic multi-layered digital images with Photoshop. The process is explored through hands-on practice where participants will learn the practical skills involved in making an artwork from a number of source image files, using Photoshop as a dynamic collage making tool. The course will cover the principles of image resolution and the opportunity to scan drawings, photographs and magazines images to manipulate the scale and incorporate it into a composite image. The course will include how to use masking techniques and layer blending modes as well as adjustment layers, filter effects, etc. There will be demonstations and practical excercises to observe and complete. This evening course will give participants the opportunity to develop, re-think and re-create the artwork between each class on the journey and apply their new knowledge to assist in the completion of the final piece. Video tutotials of the demonstrations will be made available to participants to assist with the learning process. Previous experience of Photoshop or a similiar software is advisable to make the most of the course. Edinburgh Printmakers has a number of devices with photoshop you can use, but a reduced 'bring your own devide' ticket is available for participants who can bring their own devide with Photoshop CS5 or later installed. PLEASE READ: You will see two 18:00 ticket options below. The option on the left is the 'Bring your own device' reduced ticket price, the option on the right is for participants who wish to use a device in the studio. The final outcome of the course will be to generate photo-quality print size of 42x28cm (or similiar) on fine art paper. This course is particularly suitable for photographers and artists who want to use Photoshop as collage tool for their practice. Lawrence Nowasad Born in Edinburgh and a member of the Edinburgh Printmakers since 2011, Lawrence Nowosad has been interested in a mixed media working process for a number of years, initially combining photography and video in his first course of study at Napier University. Augmenting these skills with animation, illustration and graphic design led to achieving a Masters in multi media. He has contributed work to a number of shows in Edinburgh Printmakers group shows including the Actinic show in 2015. He has had solo exhibitions in Edinburgh and Amsterdam. He has worked as an Art & Design lecturer in a number of college in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
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From Thursday 9 October, taking place over a series of six weeks, explore the original type of lithography 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. Taking place over six evenings, this 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. Focusing on learning the process and working mainly in monochrome, we will explore traditional approaches to mark-making as well as alternative drawing methods. Learn all about processing images on stone and how to stabilise the image for printing before taking several prints to show the development of your drawing at different stages. During the course we will work to approximately A3 size: 26 x 36.5cm 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. Find out more about stone lithography on our YouTube channel here. 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.
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On 11-12 October, join us to develop beautiful contemporary prints using the Japanese traditional process of Mokuhanga. What is Mokuhanga, and what are Ukiyo-e prints? Both terms refer to Japanese woodblock prints: those images one associates with such a Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Utamaro and Hokusai, who produced beautiful prints of luminous colour around 150-200 years ago during the Japanese Edo (present-day Tokyo) period. This form of printmaking was know as 'Ukiyo-e', or 'prints from the floating world'. Birds and flowers were extremely populaar themes at that time, as were landscapes, women, actors and historical figures. The class will cover the use and maintenance of Japanese tools for carving, the kento registration system, asian papers, printing with a baren and the use of waterbased pigments. Unlike the original way of carving (whereby a hard end-grain wood, usually cherry or similiar fruit wood would be used to achieve the finest detail using tools which resemble wood engraving tools), we will be cutting sheets of plywood faced with bass wood using basic cutting tools. The basswood cuts very easily and is a good 'starter' for for learning the process. What makes this process so attractive and accessible? As well the beautiful stylistic features of Mokuhanga ( the diffused, watercolour effect) the materials required are not expensive and are readily available. Water based paint or inks are used to print the blocks, rendering the technique both safe and clean, and blocks are printed easily by hand means that the process can be done easily at home or in a classroom. Contemporary Japanese printmakers often produce prints of an impressive scale at home using this technique. Elspeth Lamb is a professional artist who has undertaken several residencies in Japan since 2000 to study Mokuhanga and oriental papermaking. She is a member and regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy.
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From Tuesday 14 October, join us for our 6-week series of screenprinting classes. This class will give participants time to learn the dynamic and colourful process of screenprinting. During this evening course, each participant will develop their screenprint practice by creating multi-layered prints using an array of techniques, from painterly washes, textures, linear drawings, and photographic bitmaps to clean flat areas, colour blends, and typography. This evening course will give participants the time to think, re-think, create and re-create artwork between each class, helping them delve into various aspects of their print practice. To print, the screen is attached to a printing press and acrylic based ink is pushed through the screen mesh onto paper using a squeegee blade. Each layer of colour is printed individually, taking care to register each new ink layer on top of the previous. The process is explored through hands-on practice where participants learn practical skills involved in making a screenprint. Maximum image size on the course is approximately 21 x 30cm. This course uses water-based inks on paper which are not suitable for printing on textiles. James Harrison Over the past 10 years, James has been honing his screenprint craft by working on both personal and commercial print project on a variety of mediums, but his specialty lies in creating high-end screenprints on paper. With over 6 years of teaching experience, James' enthusiasm for teaching the art of screenprinting provides him with a constant source of motivation and inspiration for his practice. In early 2015, James started a self-initiated project with his brother called Under the Skin with the mission to engage people of all ages through innovative design and interactive screenprints. In 2018 James was awarded a QEST scholarship where he trained under expert printmaker Scott Campbell to produce screenprint editions for world-renowned artists such as Alasdair Gray. In 2022 James joined the Edinburgh Printmakers team as a Screenprint Technician, where he runs the screenprint department, produces screenprint editions, and teaches a wide variety of screenprint workshops. Booking over a month in advance? Use our Early Bird tickets for 15% off! This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills.
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During this Laser Cutting Weekend Course on 18-19 October, you will be introduced to the use of a laser cutter and how to prepare vector files from your drawing or photograph. You'll 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. This course is suitable for anyone interested in the use of a laser-cutter, as well as experienced printmakers interested in combining laser-cutting with traditional printmaking methods. The course is suitable for those who have no experience of laser cutting, though experience with digital imaging is highly recommended. Image: Sonia Mehra Chawla
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On 1 November 2025, join us for a fun, hands-on three-hour to learn how to create your own Japanese signature stamp! Artist and printmaker Kanae Park will guide you step by step. First, you'll learn how to use traditional Japanese calligraphy brushes to write your name in Japanese. Then, convert your name into a lino print Hanko (a carved stamp commonly used in Japan as a signature). This course is open to all. Children are welcome when accompanied by an adult.
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Taking place over a series of six weeks from either Tues 29 April or Tues 4 November, explore ways of creating striking images with this simple yet powerful print process. Cutting images into wood or linoleum and inking up with colour can produce bold and dramatic effects. This course will explore the diverse ways artists use this direct process, looking at the practicalities of reduction printing. This course is very hands-on, practical, and fun. You will be trying out lino & Japanese ply to cut from and explore the benefits of using different types of paper for printing. Please bring a sketch or a simple digital printout to work with. The image size will be up to a maximum of A4. Anupa Gardner is an Indian born artist based in Scotland working mainly in the field of printmaking. She graduated from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, India, where she studied graphic design. Thereafter she moved to Scotland, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art with an MA in 2008. Anupa has taken on various roles in her career as designer, illustrator, educator, technician and editioner. She now concentrates on her own practice and continues to teach in Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Printmakers. She also delivers a variety of workshops across Scotland. Book over a month in advance to receive 15% off the course price with our Early Bird tickets! You can find out more about relief printing on our YouTube channel, here. This course also entitles you to a FREE 3-month Associate Membership to use the studio and consolidate your skills. Image: Alastair Kinroy
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Taking place on 26-27 April or 8-9 November, this weekend course covers the use of Photec as an acid resist. Photec is a photopolymer film that can be adhered to a metal plate, exposed to a positive artwork on acetate, and developed in such a way that it can produce accurate photographic acid resist. This then allows a photographic image to be etched into a copper plate. The real advantage of this is that the photographic image, once bitten into the surface of the plate can be further worked into using other etching techniques. For this reason, previous etching experience is advised. During the course, participants will prepare their artwork digitally to be printed onto acetate and produce and print one photo etching plate on copper, they will also learn how to apply aquatint which can help to strengthen photo etching images. The size of the plates will be 152 x 203mm (6 X 8 inches). 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.
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On 12-13 April or 22-23 November, accomplished artist and printmaker Gillian Murray will be focusing on the hand-drawn and painterly use of screenprinting during this weekend course. Create screenprint layers without computers, using brushes and paint, drawing materials, and with the aid of photo emulsion. Explore colour mixing, layering, and mark-making. This course is particularly suitable for those interested in approaching printmaking with an emphasis on drawing and painting, taking inspiration from Gillian through a hands-on approach to screenprinting. Gillian Murray Gillian was born in Perth, Scotland and studied Fine Art (Printmaking) at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, graduating in 1993. After a move to Edinburgh, she was employed at Edinburgh Printmakers from 1996 until 2017 running the screenprinting department. This involved working on print projects with a host of local, national, and international artists as well as teaching courses in screenprinting and collagraph. She now dedicates more time to creating her own artwork as well as freeland teaching and editioning. In her own work she is fascinated by the landscape from the textures and colours to its form and composition. She is a professional member of the SSA and has exhibited widely in the UK and beyond. 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.
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