Edinburgh Printmakers

Edinburgh Printmakers Edinburgh Printmakers is a centre for printmaking and the visual arts in Fountainbridge. It’s also home to one of the largest printmaking studio in Europe.

Edinburgh Printmakers is set in Castle Mills, a beautiful heritage building that used to be a rubber factory and a brewery complex. Castle Mills houses two galleries, with a changing programme of contemporary visual art exhibitions. It’s open to anyone who would like to join a course or become a member. It was established in 1967 as the first open-access studio in Britain. We provide space, expert

ise and support for artists to develop their practice, networks and professional experience, at different stages of their careers. We have a distinctive offer for printmakers and has developmental opportunities for both artists and the creative industries, supporting learning, production, presentation and exchange that will have a significant impact on their practice and profile. The gallery shop sells original prints and design-led handmade products, by artists in residence and providing a key outlet for Scotland-based artists and printmakers. Castle Mills has spaces for hire including a large board room seating up to 60 auditorium style, and a smaller room for meetings and events. It also has a learning studio for schools and groups up to 35 people, that can be hired by the community for learning activities and workshops. Our Creative Industries Hub has seven studios for creative use at Castle Mills, including art, architecture design and Craft Scotland. Edinburgh Printmakers also provides low-cost spaces for creative use across Scotland, with EP Spaces. The onsite café is a beautiful and vibrant space that makes the perfect place to enjoy delicious seasonal dishes and home-baked goods, inside or in the courtyard. Edinburgh Printmakers works in partnership with various organisations including UnLtd Scotland. Together, they run a programme of funding and support for creative social entrepreneurs to make a difference in the local community.

William Dick, Gloam IV.On display as part of our current exhibition, Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills Members Show 4, and avail...
14/02/2025

William Dick, Gloam IV.

On display as part of our current exhibition, Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills Members Show 4, and available to purchase online or in the gallery: https://edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/viewing-room/67/works/artworks-10697-william-dick-gloam-iv-2024/

"My recent woodcut prints with stencils record my interest in reconciling different and often estranged qualities and ideas. I work through an experimental evaluation of the co-influence or confluence of organic and geometric, texture and structure, density and transparency, the sensuous history of paint and the austere tradition of minimalism.

"Within the context of abstraction, namely geometric and organic, I begin with the fundamental balance between tone, shape and line. I have drawn on ancient symbolic shapes from my Scottish background and I am influenced by the symbolic power of simplest forms of drawn lines such as the circles, concentric circles and spirals of Pictish and Celtic Art. Linear elements in my work derive from this source as well as from African and Aboriginal Art, Abyssinian Warrior Shields and Russian icons, and other lines and shapes that retain, in the broadest sense, some significance within culture. I begin from observation of geological form and the substance of land; of dust, sand, mud and rock as well as the outcrop of local street furniture/ architecture; weather and the effects of weathering, and then of the often extreme and exotic colour of lichen, peat and mosses.

"I have drawn on ancient symbolic shapes from my Scottish background, which has led to an interest in circles, concentric circles and spirals that appear repeatedly throughout Pictish and Celtic Art."

This print is available for £350 framed. With Own Art you can choose to spread the cost of an artwork over 10 months at 0% interest. Loans of between £100 and £2,500 are available towards the purchase of any original piece of artwork by a living artist.

🍸 There are a couple spaces left for this month's Drink and Print on 14 February ❤️There are also spaces available on 7 ...
13/02/2025

🍸 There are a couple spaces left for this month's Drink and Print on 14 February ❤️
There are also spaces available on 7 March
6-8pm

https://edinburghprintmakers.online.red61.co.uk/event/7894:96/

A brilliant introduction to printmaking in a fun and supportive environment!

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!

Adrian Wiszniewski created ‘Bound to Love and Cherish’ (2014) to illustrate a literal visualisation of being bound to so...
13/02/2025

Adrian Wiszniewski created ‘Bound to Love and Cherish’ (2014) to illustrate a literal visualisation of being bound to someone you love. The figure is tied, kneeling beside his romantic partner. In an almost forceful, self-imprisoned love he is tying himself, holding the rope end behind his back. The stone lithograph print was published in 2014 at Edinburgh Printmakers after a charcoal drawing by Wiszniewski currently held at the National Galleries Edinburgh (1984). The work was made in response to Bruce Nauman’s ‘Henry Moore: Bound to Fail’ (1967-70), creating a dialogue between the artists.

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Image: Adrian Wiszniewski, ‘Bound to Love and Cherish’, 2014, Stone plate and lithograph, 56.5cm x 69.5cm

Lovely monotypes by Lynda Wilson 😍Posted  •  Second layer of topiary monotypes made  yesterday and now hanging up to dry...
12/02/2025

Lovely monotypes by Lynda Wilson 😍

Posted • Second layer of topiary monotypes made yesterday and now hanging up to dry before making some trace monotype lines on them as on my sketches made

New etching plate in progress by Tessa Asquith-Lamb 😍Posted  •  My new etching plate in progress, in line and with aquat...
12/02/2025

New etching plate in progress by Tessa Asquith-Lamb 😍

Posted • My new etching plate in progress, in line and with aquatint

Meg Buick, Two Birds.On display as part of our current exhibition, Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills Members Show 4, and availab...
12/02/2025

Meg Buick, Two Birds.

On display as part of our current exhibition, Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills Members Show 4, and available to purchase online or in the gallery: https://edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/viewing-room/67/works/artworks-10662-meg-buick-two-birds-2024/

Meg is a Scottish-based printmaker and painter whose work explores representations of the natural world. For Meg, printmaking and painting are not separate, but two interconnected forms of image-making that inform each other. Both disciplines are deeply rooted in a daily practice of drawing from life. Through motifs of landscape and the animal/human form, and landscapes which are at once real and imagined, her work explores collective memory and subconscious. Her paintings are informed from drawings made from life, dreams, and a deep connection with the timeless human act of painting.

This print is available for £400 framed or £300 unframed. With Own Art you can choose to spread the cost of an artwork over 10 months at 0% interest. Loans of between £100 and £2,500 are available towards the purchase of any original piece of artwork by a living artist.

Shelagh Atkinson, Hope is the Name of the Hare.On display as part of our current exhibition, Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills M...
11/02/2025

Shelagh Atkinson, Hope is the Name of the Hare.

On display as part of our current exhibition, Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills Members Show 4, and available to purchase online or in the gallery: https://edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/viewing-room/67/works/artworks-10686-shelagh-atkinson-hope-is-the-name-of-the-hare-2024/

"The hare, hase, nousagi, lepre, Lepus, lebre, Liebre, zajec, quyon, ysgyfarnog, umvundia... In many languages and in many traditions the hare is a significant symbol, a powerful force in nature associated with creative wisdom, transformation, and intuition; its presence speaks of new beginnings and opportunities."

This print is available for £495 framed. With Own Art you can choose to spread the cost of an artwork over 10 months at 0% interest.

11/02/2025

Huge thanks to the team from Edinburgh Printmakers today for an absolutely fantastic talk about the history and future direction of this iconic local and international institution and link in with our current exhibition 'Inked Up: Printmaking in Scotland'. Lots of hands-on things too!

Morven Ferguson, Lochnagar 2024Currently on display as part of our exhibition, Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills Members Show 4,...
10/02/2025

Morven Ferguson, Lochnagar 2024

Currently on display as part of our exhibition, Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills Members Show 4, and available to purchase in the gallery or online: https://edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/viewing-room/67/works/artworks-10664-morven-ferguson-lochnagar-2024/

"Lochnagar 2024 is part of a limited varied edition of laser engraved wood blocks. My process
involves a merging of both digital and analogue printmaking. The process of printing
Lochnagar involved laser engraving and cutting a jigsaw woodblock. I use digital imagery
converting an image to a positive and negative for relief printing. I then individually inked
each jigsaw section, assembling the jigsaw within a frame for registering and printing
through a press. The landscape is of constant inspiration to me and I always have my
camera in hand ready to photograph my surroundings. Lochnagar is a Munro in the Scottish
Cairngorms. I hiked up to the top of Lochnagar in September 2023 and was awe struck by its
pointed summit rising up onto the clouds."

This print is available for £300 framed. With Own Art you can choose to spread the cost of an artwork over 10 months at 0% interest.

Senada Borcilo, Haaf-netter Bloggsy.Currently on display as part of our current exhibition, Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills Me...
09/02/2025

Senada Borcilo, Haaf-netter Bloggsy.

Currently on display as part of our current exhibition, Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills Members Show 4, and available to purchase in our gallery or online: https://edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/viewing-room/67/works/artworks-10684-senada-borcilo-haaf-netter-bloggsy-2024/

"'Haaf-netter Bloggsy' is a stone lithograph.

"Bloggsy is one of the few Scottish fishermen who still practice an ancient way of fishing. I am in awe of his determination to preserve this most sustainable and environmentally friendly way of fishing. I hope his passion can inspire younger people to continue with the tradition."

This print is available for £400 framed. With Own Art you can choose to spread the cost of an artwork over 10 months at 0% interest.

Gillian Murray, Distant Shores.This print is currently on display as part of our current exhibition Hope/Dòchas: Castle ...
08/02/2025

Gillian Murray, Distant Shores.

This print is currently on display as part of our current exhibition Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills Members' Show 4 until 16 March, and available to purchase in the gallery or online: https://edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/viewing-room/67/works/artworks-10631-gillian-murray-distant-shores-2024/

Gillian studied Fine Art (Printmaking) at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, graduating in 1993. After a move to Edinburgh she became an employee at Edinburgh Printmakers in 1996 until 2017. This involved working on print projects with a host of local, national and international artists as well as teaching courses in screenprinting and collagraphs. She now dedicates more time to creating her own artwork as well as freelance teaching and editioning.

In her own work she is fascinated by the landscape- from textures and colours to form and composition.

She is a professional member of the SSA and has exhibited widely in Britain and abroad.

This print is available for £500 framed or £400 unframed. With Own Art you can choose to spread the cost of an artwork over 10 months at 0% interest.

Drink and Print: 7 or 14 March, from 6-8pmhttps://edinburghprintmakers.online.red61.co.uk/event/7894:96/🍸 Have a drink a...
07/02/2025

Drink and Print: 7 or 14 March, from 6-8pm

https://edinburghprintmakers.online.red61.co.uk/event/7894:96/

🍸 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!

✨The Art of Printmaking International: Fondazione Il Bisonte in Florence, ItalyThursday 27 February, from 5-7Onlinehttps...
06/02/2025

✨The Art of Printmaking International: Fondazione Il Bisonte in Florence, Italy
Thursday 27 February, from 5-7
Online

https://edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/events/83/

This programme of talks aims to build our relationships with similar printmaking studios around the world. Invited representatives of each studio, as well as artist members, students or collaborators will give a talk and introduce their organisation, work, projects and facilities to an international audience of creative printmakers.

To this day, under the guidance of the president Simone Guaita, the Foundation Il Bisonte has amplified its offer and configured itself as a hub both cultural and creative, a generative space of creation and artistic production able to combine the historical technical mastery of printmaking with the most expressive contemporary art.

Join us for a series of online talks connecting Edinburgh to 5 printmaking studios all over the world: Funen Printmaking Workshop in Odense, Denmark ; Kinngait Studios in Nunavut, Canada ; Powerhouse Arts in New York City, USA ; Fondazione il Bisonte, Florence, Italy ; and Spike Print Studio in...

Edinburgh Printmakers are delighted to welcome -Edinburgh , our new cafe at Castle Mills from Tuesday 4 March.Acclaimed ...
05/02/2025

Edinburgh Printmakers are delighted to welcome -Edinburgh , our new cafe at Castle Mills from Tuesday 4 March.

Acclaimed chef Babatunde Abifarin, Gaelle Isimbi, and Sarah Norman are launching KUBA to celebrate Pan-African and Scottish culinary cuisine and fusion through creative approaches to menu making, including both vegan and vegetarian offers. With a diverse offering with flexible menus, their focus on community will ensure everyone receives a warm welcome.

Their menu will include brunch, lunch, and drinks, and they will work closely with our Events team to develop new offers and events for venue hire clients.

Holy Cow will hand over to KUBA at the end of February, and the cafe will be closed from Friday 28 February – Monday 3 March, reopening on Tuesday 4 March. Over the weekend, the café will be open with a basic service – so do come by and get to know the team, and hear more about what's coming soon.

🎨 Collagraph Masterclass with Gillian MurphyWeekend of 8&9 Marchhttps://edinburghprintmakers.online.red61.co.uk/event/78...
05/02/2025

🎨 Collagraph Masterclass with Gillian Murphy
Weekend of 8&9 March

https://edinburghprintmakers.online.red61.co.uk/event/7894:13/

Draw on Gillian Murray's vast experience of working in collagraph during our weekend course!

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 surface.

Carolynn Cooke, Kellies Cooking Apples from St. Monans. Photolithography and Chine Colleé.This print is currently on dis...
04/02/2025

Carolynn Cooke, Kellies Cooking Apples from St. Monans. Photolithography and Chine Colleé.

This print is currently on display as part of our exhibition Hope/Dòchas: Castle Mills Members' Show 4, and is available to purchase in the gallery or online: https://bit.ly/40R20Ad

"Twenty years ago after I retired I converted my garage in Cambridgeshire into a studio where I mostly painted still life in watercolour and acrylic. I went to the Curwen Press, set up by the late Stanley Jones at Chilford Hall Cambridge, and produced my first stone lithograph and photo lithograph developing images from my paintings. I continued occasional printmaking there and was very happy on moving up to Edinburgh to discover EP at Union Street in the old laundry, and of course Alastair Clark, who has been a great support and teacher. I became a full member just after the move to the new studios at Castle Mills."

Stunning new screenprint by Kelly Stewart 😍Posted  •  Hot off the press…The Espy at Portobello.56cm x 25cm.15 colour scr...
04/02/2025

Stunning new screenprint by Kelly Stewart 😍

Posted • Hot off the press…
The Espy at Portobello.
56cm x 25cm.
15 colour screenprint.
£135.
Edition of 35.
Screenprinted by myself
I’ve added this print onto my website, see link in bio.

✨ There are still some places available for the next Family Print Club on 16 February, where we'll be exploring: Collage...
03/02/2025

✨ There are still some places available for the next Family Print Club on 16 February, where we'll be exploring: Collage Relief Printmaking to celebrate Spring and make imaginative images using textured paper and materials.

🎨 Family Print Club, 16 February at 10:15am or 2:00pm

Please see our website to book: https://edinburghprintmakers.online.red61.co.uk/event/7894:25/

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