Photo Plate Litho - Taster Class
Sunday 18 October 2026, 2-5.30pm
Join us on Sunday 18th October for this taster class exploring Photo Plate Lithography
with Alastair Clark. £55, £35 Concession
Introducing light-sensitive aluminium photo plates. These plates can produce detailed marks such as painterly washes, linear drawings, photocopied images, photographs, digital images, and text.
Explore the subtlety of a lithograph with minimal processing.This 1-day taster class will give you the opportunity to make a print, find out what photo plate lithography is all about before you might consider one of our longer courses.
We offer Weekend Courses (2-days) & Expanded Practice (3-days) in Photo Plate 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 taught at Edinburgh College of Art. As Head of Editions at Edinburgh Printmakers, he works on print projects as a collaborative printmaker with invited artists, producing print editions for Edinburgh Printmakers 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 included Eutopians which responded to Brexit, and the ongoing series An Island in Time explores climate change.